This is the building with the water tower on top, full of Barcol stuff that did not sell at auction and not worth the trouble to scrap.
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An impressive message for graffiti in a Detroit warehouse, but then again look at these steam pumps. Over-built and under-appreciated.
The old gate sign, leaned against one of the terminal elevators.
The last of four radar domes on the base.
A stack of flawed casting molds, in the ready position next to where the cupolas sat when the plant closed.
Days after the long-flooded basement was pumped out. Note the water lines!
In one of the small offices there’s this machine that bills itself as “The Recorder.” I’m an old tech geek and I still don’t know what this really does.
Looking up to the second floor of the Nitrating House, where cotton would be soaked in nitric acid. These brought cotton into the building.
A morning shower made the plant’s metal siding shake… probably nothing, though, compared to when the furnaces were blasting. The objects on the ground are molten ore containers.
One of the few artifacts left in the chapel section is this old floor buffing machine.