If there were no other options, operators could climb this ladder from the Communications Room to the surface, after opening two heavy steel hatches, of course.
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This sign was important when trains ran the length of the elevator.
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.
This is the crane that would be used to lower extra-heavy bits of copper ore into the fire of the furnace.
A tower above Minneapolis that few people see.
An old sign in front of the elevators that used to constitute Saskatchewan Wheat Pool #4. Kodak Pro 100.
The fantastic red elevator that is Pool #61, built 1928.
Either the company was pulling parts from this evaporator to use as parts for other plants, or the last thing the workers did was to get this machine ready for the next campaign. Either way, plans changed.
Two bin signs criss-cross in the North Annex.
An abandoned house at Tilston, MB.