One of the many blast doors. Note the plunger to seal off the airflow in the event of an attack or accidental explosion.
Similar Images
...based on the tags: blast-doors, green, grimy, rusty, steel...
The building in the foreground–the old control booth–was arsoned in 2009.
The ‘working’ part of the furnaces are about a story above ground level, so the catwalks snake above the tree line.
Part of the system below Dock 2.
A board to track which miners are underground. Low tech, but very effective.
A broken window looking through the First Aid Room and into the Control Room in charge of directing grain into ships. You can see one of the large conveyors on the right, clad in green. Chutes and staircases intertwine seemingly randomly through the big empty spaces.
There are so many pipes i the factory–I wonder how many people knew where they all went, in the days these machines operated at capacity.
The sign that greets visitors to the ghost town of Colmor. Nothing says ‘welcome’ like birdshot.
When the Mitchell project is complete, I’ll miss the textures on the face of the boiler.
In the basement were all the valves to control the flow of municipal steam through the building. This hasty hand letting was beside one such valve, near a carved brick with a name and ‘1934’ under it.