Outbuilding (Fomapan 100)

West Elevation of the Depot. Ektar 100/Mamiya 6

Between the room with mold sand and the space where the car’s metal bits would be put together, a pillar is marked as structurally vital.

Graffiti by a crew member of the Algolake.

Standing where the Standard Oil’s boiler used to sit; the coal room is on the right, and would have been filled from trackside.

The huge snowfalls of 2011 brought new collapses across the buildings.

Note the large belt pulley in the center of the frame. Follow the axel it’s on and you’ll see several belts still attached to the drive, which was originally steam-driven.

The stonework was done by a local handyman of sorts, who was also a guard at a nearby insane asylum. He did a great job, it seems to me.

The old men’s ward is an example of what the hospital resembled before part of the complex was modernized. Small rooms, light switches outside the door, small observation windows set into heavy wood. If you ask me, though, the tile work across the floors is the most spectacular.

This ornamental stair is cast iron and used to connect all floors of the Administration building. Now it connects the first and second floor, then the third and fourth floors, with a strange cinder block and drywall barrier separating the new and old sections of the building. Note the insulation on the floor to seal heat into the lower floors that were used as offices until the hospital closed. On the corners of the staircase are lions, on the corners of the suspended section of stair are down-hanging pineapples. Set in the stairs themselves are shield motifs with slate tops.