Orange Line

90% of Brach’s looks like this. Concrete walls, mushroom pillars, and water over the floor.

A typical lab at the Research Center.

A long tunnel stretches toward the Mississippi. Was this the route Model Ts took on their way to waiting barges?

A twin-engine crew pushes full taconite cars onto Dock 6.

Fermenters and mixing tanks fill this brewing room. The lighting is all natural, and is partially owed to a crumbling wall letting the sunset blast the interior in almost perfect profile.

This tunnel had a wooden drafter’s table in it.

The bits with handles are the filters with screens of different sizes. Larger grain particles would be stopped at the top for further reduction via the mills, while the powder at the bottom would be run through another bolter–one of the refinement stages in flour production.

Looking toward downtown, one is reminded that when Stahlmann built here in 1855 that it was on the very edge of the city.

One of the clusters of elevators. Doors would open on both sides so that vehicles could be moved through them if necessary. There is only one set of stairs in the whole building.