A comrade lights-up where so many workers apparently congregated to do the same.
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Fire doors and penis talk.
The steam plant at Nopeming is an iconic (and crooked) smokestack. Kodak Pro 400 on a Fuji GX680.
An emergency slide to help workers evacuate the blending house in an emergency.
The Western Elevator’s old moniker looks over Fort William (the neighborhood). Snow falls over Mount McKay in the background. This elevator is still active… the only active elevator in Fort William proper.
While the maps name this the compressor house, I believe, based on its size and number of heavy machine mounts, that it also housed the pumps to drain the mine.
Miners at the turn of the century had better taste in typography than the average person does today.
Lockers for the boiler room workers.
The blacksmith shop is pretty rugged looking. Through the door you can see the collapsed walkway that might have once connected to a building covering the Santiago Tunnel adit.
The old truck scale sits in the middle of what was Nettleton Avenue Slip.