Inside the pilot copper concentrator.
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Raab strolling where the coal and ore would be dumped by trains that traveled along the top of the concrete pilings.
Exploring Dock 4 was a very different experience, since it was almost all metal.
Workers would undoubtedly prefer to use the belt manlift on the right.
The King Elevator is connected by a manlift and this spiral staircase. The manlift was down–can you believe it? Note the cool turns in the vertical railings. Arista 100 on 120.
Part of the 1917 mill that had a little bit of roof left over it–most of this building was open to the sky. The birds loved it, but everything metal was quickly becoming too unstable to walk on.
Standing where the Standard Oil’s boiler used to sit; the coal room is on the right, and would have been filled from trackside.
The flour mill’s interior is really just a system of steel and rubber tubes that crush flour over and over in the gap. This mill was never run off of water power directly, but it used to generate power using the river.
The Hamm-stenciled chairs are all destroyed as far as I know, now, as are the custom ladders built in-house for the company. Taken between the Filter House and Keg Wash House.
A polaroid (FP100c, actually) of the newer grain car dumper.