Slagway

Looking at the headframe for Shaft 3 from the tower for Shaft 1. Below is the roof of the Dry House. It was hard to remind myself that these building have been abandoned longer than I’ve been alive.

Though it’s a little unclear what control station controlled what function, these levers seemed to relate to some of the bigger equipment inside the dredge, such as the trommel.

ADM-Delmar #1- Maintainance Department. The stainless steel bits are part of the grain dryer added in the 1940s. The workhouse itself (the larger tower) was a dedicated Cleaning House, meaning that grain passed through both these buildings to be rid of dust, dirt and extra moisture before storage. In the foreground is the old ADM locker room and pipe department.

Easier-to-demolish parts of the power plant were torched apart. Catwalks to nowhere meant lots of dead ends.

When the dock across the slip loads, the lighting below the otherwise dark ‘5’ can get a little wild.

The powered lime hopper had a lot of levels.

90% of Brach’s looks like this. Concrete walls, mushroom pillars, and water over the floor.

Standing atop the dust collector, the factory breaks down into diverging patterns, processes.

The end of the heating line allowed glass to cool slowly, and thus be stronger.