Here, the concentrated gold (and silver, and zinc, I would guess) would be loaded into trucks bound for the smelter.
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The west portal of the tunnel is open, and if it wasn’t for the rough track, I would think by looking at it that a train could be coasting up behind me any moment. Mamiya 6/Portra 160
The Osborn Block (front) and the Twohy (rear) at sunset. In the distance, you can almost make out Globe Elevators. One of my favorite photos of 2013.
A broken signal light that would indicate to incoming engineers and brakemen the status of the dock deck. The streetlight-style lighting is a retrofit; originally the top of the dock would be lit by strings of lights suspended by towers on each side of the deck… a poor system according to the workers at Allouez who had the same lights.
The top floor’s old-fashioned hospital ways were too much to pass without a photo or two… with the paint falling off the walls it was as if the building was shedding its skin in an effort to become rejuvenated or useful.
The bathtub fell into the basement, ala The Miller’s Tale. That’s right. Chaucer.
One of the last times I saw the skyway standing. ADM’s Meal Elevator is in the distance.
Standing between pockets 1 and 2. You brought hearing protection, right?
Offices above the labs. Note all the air handling equipment. I love the utilitarian design.
One of the covered rail loading docks. All of them were overgrown and rust-clad.