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A typical room in Birtle.

The aft lifeboat survived auction, although now all it holds is an emergency ladder to help men who’ve fallen overboard get on deck.

These corner pilings served as bumpers… a little assurance against wind, ice, and new captains.

The control room was used through the mid-1990s as the plant was used to stabilize the power grid.

Frontenac’s shaft house is well preserved, compared to all other around it. Leica/Summilux 35/Ektar 100

Rubber dock boots still sits under the desk in the dock office, near keys to rusted locks and files of fired employees.

Inside the west portal is a big liquid propane hand warmer, for workers to take the cold off their gloves as they handled the switches and doors of Cramer Tunnel. Mamiya GA645 / Kodak Pro 400

Allouez had already suffered one major fire. It didn’t need another–especially under Dock 1’s wooden approach.

The machine stood the Atlas missile up vertically over the blast pit, launching position, once the roof opened.