Taken several years before the tornado story when the weather, and the condition of the buildings, were nice.
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A single metal emergency slide rusts away at sunrise.
Heavy steel doors to isolate the underground magnetic separation mill from Eagle Mine’s main tunnel.
From the bottom of the skyway I looked back, my eyes tracing the vines from the marsh up the smokestacks to the perfect Midwestern sky.
Looking up the tallest structure left at ACME.
The vibrant colors clashed with the silent hotel.
Near the old slag dump there are the remains of the pouring buckets that received the molten steel from the US Steel blast furnaces, filled to the brim with pig iron. They must be incredibly heavy!
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 building was 99 years old when it was demolished for the coal mine.
For reasons unknown, this building’s concrete was designed a little thinly. It reminds me of a Chicago, IL building constructed during WWI when concrete and steel were strictly rationed and many buildings went up with insufficient superstructures. I do not have a build date for this one yet.