Skylights

In the nurses’ dormitories, beds, couches and chairs still sit. It’s unclear whether these are remnants of the homeless shelter in the 80s or the actual nurses.

I believe this is the push car, meaning it would push the charge in the oven out the opposite side into the train car.

My favorite shot from the trip. Later in its life, the plant was converted to burn its own byproducts, but it seems this was designed as a coal hopper.

Kodak Tri-X 400/Leica M7. The office (first floor), laboratory (second floor) and mill behind it. Everything was clean and pristine.

Empty equipment racks behind a missile launcher.

The skylights with geared-to-open windows were massive and quite functional.

The scale of the grain hoppers helps tell the story of how large Hamm’s was in its day.

For some time, Purina ran a feed service out of the elevator. Inside and outside were signs of its past presence.

Timbers overlap where mine cars plunged, a strange wooden fence traced the center of the beams.