The power pulley that ran air compressors straight off of the steam plant’s axel.
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Thick glass windows allow workers to check the beet juice levels in this steel tank. You can tell by the reinforcement that it had a lot of liquid and had to hold against immense pressure. Kodak Tri-X 400/Leica M7.
“R.O. 1939”
One of my favorite visual feature of grain elevators, especially big ones, is how they repeat.
We people are so small.
This picture is lit by a direct lightning strike of the building. It’s impossible to describe the feeling of being in this giant open building the moment it channeled an electric explosion into the earth.
An article from Minnpost describes this design as “marital”, and I could not agree more.
A long exposure in the crane cab at sunset throws a bit of color into the bleak yellow glows between the windows and car shaker.
A machine to cast copper billets.
Smashed TVs and stone foundations in a former common room in the basement.