Core Door

Connecting the Administration Building to the wards fanning out. Historical photos show cots lining this hallway when the hospital was severely overcrowded. Lit by lightning outside the grounds during a huge thunderstorm.

I don’t think we’re anywhere near maximum pressure anymore.

No ambiguity here… miners, check in at this office.

Water damage dissolved the ceiling into sludge. Pillars remain, as do the plastic light covers, now on the floor.

My first view of the tunnel was in the dead of winter. In spite of being in the middle of the forest, it was totally silent. Mamiya GA645 / Kodak Pro 400

Left: A medium storage chamber with access to an interconnecting steam tunnel at ceiling height. This room also has various smashed toilets. Why? Because dead toilets–all of them–always find a home in a cave. Center: Steps go past a +-intersection, left goes deeper, right goes to utility tunnels for the brewery, forward used to go to the brewery basement… it’s now backfilled. Left from the backfill is a small hallway; see ‘Backfill Self Portrait’. Center-Right: Utility tunnels tie knots between the brewery’s demolished basement and its caves. Right: Most of the storage volume is in large chambers down this causeway.

Ektar 100/Mamiya 6. A ghost town near Martinsdale, where the market (pictured) served as the train stop.

The old truck scale sits in the middle of what was Nettleton Avenue Slip.

Standing where the Standard Oil’s boiler used to sit; the coal room is on the right, and would have been filled from trackside.