The blast pit carried the smoke and flame from the rocket motor away from the other base buildings.
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Old boathouses near the dock.
Looking toward the old power house, right below one of its arteries.
Before Portland-Huron Cement’s Duluth Plant was (mostly) demolished and (partly) turned into a hotel, the top of its silos gave a cinematic view of elevator row.
The parking lot is in better condition than most of the complex. The left building is the lab.
Through a section of the tailings boom where mountain winds tore open the sheet metal around the conveyor, I poked my head out.
Looking through Workhouse A from the top of a silo.
Wagons and horses were kept in the building on the left, separate from the rest of the complex in case of fire. In the distance is the boiler house, separate for the same reason.
In this ghost town where there were brick, wooden, and dirt-brick buildings, the latter fared the best by far.
Kansas is known for tornados. Think ‘Wizard of Oz’. That, considered with the fact that the workers were surrounded by bombs and bomb making materials called for lots of earthen shelters, just in case.