The main street of the ghost town is also the maintenance road for the BNSF line that bisects Colmor.
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“It must have been beautiful once.” “Yeah, especially in the winter.”
The Sunnyside Mill, excepting the stained rebar, seems like part of the mountain.
These were some of the most attractive shops of all the mines in the area. It’s no wonder Hanna Mining wanted to use them as their center of operations in the Iron River district.
Gopher Ordnance Works, aka the U-Lands, is a landscape where roots and boughs break apart concrete and steel.
The headquarters for the plant was in the middle of it. It’s abandoned but well preserved–a strange sight in Gary, Indiana.
A shot of Longmont from the highway. Fuji 35mm.
The walkway to the end of the dock is elevated, so one walks above the trees and bushes growing in the rotting taconite pellets that have collected over the years.
The porch of the Gustavson House with the southern San Juan range in the background. Bring your own rocking chair…
Near the old slag dump there are the remains of the pouring buckets that received the molten steel from the US Steel blast furnaces, filled to the brim with pig iron. They must be incredibly heavy!