The side of a launcher, with outbuildings in the background. You can see the tracks where the roof would open before launch.
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The sun unzipped the clouds. Mist blew across the harbor.
In the mid-2000s, Peavey sealed the spaces between their Electric Steel Elevator bins. What they unwittingly created was a graffiti time capsule. “Impeach Bush”.
Where staff could sleep.
A row of houses north of Pommenige.
I made this picture to give the reader a sense of the slope between the mine buildings and the base of the concentrator. The whole area was really steep, and sometimes required scrambling to get up and down the Picayune Gulch for short distances.
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 rails that used to go to the back of the complex are long gone, but the ties are still in the back of the parking lot.
In the bottom of a creek, an antique children’s wheelchair is buried in grass, where someone threw it. Wooden leg braces suggest this dates to the 1950s.
During the Cold War, the Air Force used the radar station to train bombardiers in radar-guided ordinance.