“Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and historian.
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Looking toward Mitchell from its last building.
Devan setting up his 4×5 camera.
This tree caught my eye. Note the bench swing near it. Portra 160.
The cladding on the 1926 elevator is beginning to submit to the high velocity prairie winds.
From the loftily perspective of the crane cab, I thought about how nice it would have been to have been here when there was equipment to share the space. This begs the question, who took out the equipment?
This is one of the biggest warps I’ve ever found in a wooden factory floor hasn’t broken yet. When you stand on it, it make a very loud popping sound as the boards shift. The poster on the pillar near the left side of the frame advertises recreational boating, presumably to the factory workers who left this floor in the early 1980s.
A small stage in one of the barracks.
The tallest dock structure is an equipment elevator that connects the many dock levels.
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.