Conveyor Bend

Workers’ lockers, strewn across Main Street, yet still out of the way.

From the slip where grain boats would tie for loading and unloading, the unloader juts in a modernist-architectural way that is oddly visibly satisfying. Inside that white building is the retracted boat unloader, more or less a long and sturdy conveyor attached to a joint and crane motor. There used to be four loaders that looked like simple tubes with cranes and ropes attached hanging from this side of the elevator. All that remains of those is one fixture on the white building (not visible here) and the frame of one on the elevator proper, visible in the upper-middle of this image, to the right of the unloader apparatus.

I wonder when fluorescent lighting was added.

The only good shot I have of the top of Battery A, in the upper left. Though it seemed to have been disused before its neighbor it had a lot less growth on it.

Part of the grain drier system in ADM #1 crawls up the side of the building like a steel vine.

…out of our depth.

One of my favorite visual feature of grain elevators, especially big ones, is how they repeat.

A teeter totter sits in front of the Memorial Building.

While the last of the Studebaker production buildings were being demolished, I visited again. Here’s a shot taken shortly after the demolition crew left for the day.