Power Dome Crane

Everything had to be tested before being sent to the front lines. Here’s where smaller ammunition would be test-fired. I was able to dig up several misfired rounds. Now they live in my collection of oddities.

This was taken before the top of the docks really started to rot-out; now this stretch past the crane is distinctly unsafe to cross. Still, you can’t beat the view of Dock #2 winding into the distance, where the approach is chopped-off before the yard used to extend.

A typical room in Birtle.

This section retains water and is mostly shaded, so moss has found a way to live in the concrete.

In the modern control room at the base of the white elevator tower are the electronics that ran the newer building, its rail components and boat-loading component. The superstructure permeates all spaces here, as can be seen with the crossing I-beams in the main office.

2004. Machine Shop Loft.

Furnace #7, as seen from #6’s catwalks. Cue morning fog.

You can tell from the marks on the wall that there used to be pipes running the length of this square hallway, which connected a loading dock with explosive mixers.

The green-tinted skylight makes this a bright green corridor, the lower of the two skyways connecting the two workhouses.