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.
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Dead cars were parked permanently near the model farm. Perhaps it had an automotive program. After all, before they were ‘Indian Residential Schools’ they were ‘Indian Industrial Schools’.
Worm in the path of raw ore where it would be dumped from rock cars into the silo below.
Inside the office was a small furnace and a collection of mechanical belts. You can see “SERVICE AT COST” and “POOL 168” in the background.
A look down the 1950s foundry building, moments after sunset.
Some local kids were having a fire extinguisher fight when I walked into the lab one day.
The iconic outline of a prairie sentinel. Quintessential rural industrial architecture.
The second most important building at Prize Mine.
What looks to be a skip for repairing the dock, in the concrete steeple.
This sea leg was installed to unload grain boats. It’s pretty much a big bucket elevator that can be moved and lowered into waiting boats.