Launch Building Door

I’ve written it before, but I like observing the way buildings change in terms of new windows, bricked up doors, and so on, and thinking of how their forms change to reflect the work inside of them.

A damaged roof channeled rain onto the adobe walls, cutting them in half. In the distance, a preserved house and the ruins of the Colmor School.

2004. Machine Shop Loft.

It’s like a piece of paper that’s been written on and rewritten, until you can’t read what the original message was.

The Beeghley was launched in 1958… you can see it unloading limestone here with its retrofitted self-unloader. Update: This ship has been renamed the ‘James L. Oberstar’ after the Minnesota Senator. [Read more on Boardnerd.com here: http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/oberstar.htm]

I love this original brick archway, near the narrow gauge shop. Gorgeous!

Strange graffiti in a side room. Someone was having fun…

The main shaft’s cable spooled with bird castings belies the fact that lives used to dangle from its steel-wound strength. Arrows on the circles would indicate the mine level the cars were currently at.

A big sign marks where the elevated walkway is severed where Dock 2 used to meet Dock 3, now gone.