Furnace

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.

I did not take the escape ladder to the surface, but I am told it pops up in the middle of a hill next to the missile silo doors.

The UP gets a lot of snow, making exploring its old mines a special challenge in the winter. The snow is more than 6 feet deep in this picture, and firm enough to walk on.

The incinerator’s hardened steel door… useless, but still sexy in a heavy-industrial kind of way.

Blast Furnace 7 as seen from the ore yard. Imagine running up those stairs through blast furnace smoke.

The old way to get to the elevator from the mill.

Aaron by the concentrator.

Kat dancing down the trestle, which is one of the highest in the state, standing about 100 feet over the road. Mamiya 6/Portra 160

The end of one of the scrapped turbines. Judging by the aborted attempt at cutting it in half, the scrappers had some trouble with this one.