From a distance (here, Union Yards), you can still see ARMOUR spelled out on the smokestack in white brick.
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Looking from abandoned to active. The end of Dock 6 often has a crane and some shacks on it, as the chutes aren’t used anymore. Instead, conveyors are installed on the land-side of the dock that fill docked vessels, making the end of the dock little more than a breakwater and a place to park repair and recovery equipment.
The St. Louis County Sheriff constantly patrols the property looking for trespassers.
Counter-weighted ore cars alternately filled and emptied to feed Furnace 7. Honestly, though, the corner-mounted cranes are sexier in my opinion. Note the trees growing from the stacks.
Standing between pockets 1 and 2. You brought hearing protection, right?
In this old repair shop, vines fall from the rotting roof to meet mossy concrete. Even though it had been dry for days, water dripped in from the roof to make permanent puddles between workstations. It was full of color and sound and industry and nature.
Quincy Smelter, 2014.
The missiles were stored without fuel, to help prevent mishaps. This is the fuel pumping building and one of the tanks.
Electric Steel’s bins reflect the sunset.
I had to search the shelves a while to find this old logbook. The open page lists changes in stock numbers for Cutler Hammer Coils, and one row says that a new coil was installed on the black larry. The larry is the machine that loads coke ovens.