While the building looks uniform on the outside, inside it’s clearly divided between a hoist room and shaft room (seen here).
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The Columbus Mine overlooks its mill, which was one of the last to operate in the region, thanks to the demand for industrial metals during World War II.
From the slip where grain boats would tie for loading and unloading, the unloader juts in a modernist-architectural way that is oddly visibly satisfying. Inside that white building is the retracted boat unloader, more or less a long and sturdy conveyor attached to a joint and crane motor. There used to be four loaders that looked like simple tubes with cranes and ropes attached hanging from this side of the elevator. All that remains of those is one fixture on the white building (not visible here) and the frame of one on the elevator proper, visible in the upper-middle of this image, to the right of the unloader apparatus.
2008. Harris Machinery as seen from the roof of ADM-Delmar Elevator #4.
Modern ruins of the Gilman-Belden tram…
These corner pilings served as bumpers… a little assurance against wind, ice, and new captains.
Although the caves deviated little in their year-round temperature, it was common to use blocks of ice to cool beer immediately before shipment. This is the ruins of the ice chute.
Looking up from the train shed. The building was consistently crumbling and I wish I had worn a hard hat in this area.
The hoist signal dangling beside the modern mine shaft would ring a bell next to the giant electric motors that would send the men and machinery into the underground.
The inside of Whiting mine, as it looks today.