An experimental shaft dug in the 1950s and its Hoist House.
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This dock goes between loading bays (see glass brick walls) and the railroad.
Between all of the buildings was dense growth, especially vines.
Everyone loves water towers.
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.
From left to right: shaft building, headframe, rock house, hoist house.
This building had the rusty remains of a few mattresses, likely used in the 1940s when this site was last occupied.
Exploring Dock 4 was a very different experience, since it was almost all metal.
The top of the headframe, and in a sense, the mine itself. This pulley carried the life line of the mine and the men in it.
The last of four radar domes on the base.