On the second floor of the former casket plant, which was retrofitted with a conveyor system to coat finished products.
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Parts lockers on the top floor of the power plant.
Inside a launch building you can see how the roof would split in the middle to allow the rocket to be raised into launch position.
The entry point for the painting shed on the top floor. Cars would have a few feet in between them before they entered. Separate sheds would prime and add color.
On the Turbine Room floor, one old steam pump still remains, ready to pressurize steam pipes with the hot stuff throughout the car shops and boilers.
The power pulley that ran air compressors straight off of the steam plant’s axel.
This is the crane that would be used to lower extra-heavy bits of copper ore into the fire of the furnace.
This is a 1956 furnace. It was used to forge wheels, casings, and parts for the axel shop.
Part of the brewing process is sterilizing the kettles, pipes and tanks all product would touch. This was done with a caustic solution. To the left is a healthy pile of asbestos where a heating tank used to stand, insulated in the carcinogenic mineral. The tank got cut apart, the asbestos stayed here.
The new steel door of the diesel car shops, built in 1948 and used through the 1960s, as seen from the service pit. On the top of the photograph you can see the exhaust vent.