Sprouts

The Brown Hotel still stands, but has recently gone out of business again. One of the nice things about historic buildings in New Mexico, though, is things tend to stay around a lot longer than if they were subjected to lots of rain and snow. It will probably be reopened eventually.

Looking across the mountain tramway from an abandoned house in Gilman.

The UP gets a lot of snow, making exploring its old mines a special challenge in the winter. The snow is more than 6 feet deep in this picture, and firm enough to walk on.

One thing that struck me as a midwesterner in the South was the vines. They seem to be able to completely cover a building when left alone for a few decades.

Note the rails in the floor that guided cars to the coating line, the side of which is lined with the windows in the center of the image.

The workshop sat below the main working floor and had serious power going to it.

This heavy door opens directly into the missile vault and was used to load and unload the missile erector.

Another perfect Indianan sunset alights like a bird on the tops of the vent houses and tree-packed smokestacks.

Looking out from my perch close to the Kam toward the Ogilvie head house. To the left is a newer concrete annex, probably built in the years it bore the name Saskatchewan Pool 8.