From a distance (here, Union Yards), you can still see ARMOUR spelled out on the smokestack in white brick.
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A dead work truck rusts near an outbuilding. Everything is marked with a code. Modernity.
Standing on the fence barricade that used to keep squatters out of the tunnel, the size of the space is impressive. What you see here is the current length of the tunnel; I set up a flashlight at the end to illuminate the concrete wall that is the lower portal.
A typical room in the barracks, reinforced from mortars and light shelling, possibly.
“Public WHSE” on the side of Osborn.
Latin; to grow. Root of the English word ‘surge’.
Dominion was acquired by UGG, which designated the elevator ‘M’. Their offices still have safety signage.
Looking across the spired rooftop of the Kirkbride building. In the foreground is a fire chute that contains a metal spiral slide designed to evacuate patients in case of a fire. Note the ironwork on the chimney.
HDR matrix panorama. Looking from the grain elevators, now doomed, toward the city between the flour mill’s water tower and tile elevator’s neon sign, the old and new economies seem almost united. Yet the financial centers rise in reality to shadow the now-abandoned industry and manufacturing. The way of things, I’m told.
One of my favorite pictures of the tunnel. I am holding a bike rim and wearing a headlamp. My friend triggered the flash just behind my lower back. The fog is a temperature inversion at the entrance of the tunnel; it was 102 degrees outside of the tunnel and about 50 degrees inside, and humid.