In this ghost town where there were brick, wooden, and dirt-brick buildings, the latter fared the best by far.
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At sunset the light skips from puddle to stagnant puddle across the whole foundry room, playing with the classic sawtooth roof with half-hearted shadows.
A little sheet metal box somehow made it back home.
The cladding on the 1926 elevator is beginning to submit to the high velocity prairie winds.
Looking above the altar.
A hydraulic ‘bridge’ couple lower onto the tracks to bring mine cars into the shaft house, presumably for repair. I haven’t found this system anywhere else, but it makes a lot of sense.
The bottom area of the smokestacks house storage spaces. The windows of these rooms that were never completed line up perfect.
Platforms and abandoned outbuildings, as seen in 2005.
I really like the way this high-ceilinged room is decaying. Well, decayed. It’s demolished now.
Kate stands on top of the tailings pile that added some usable land to the side of the gulch. Somewhere nearby is the buried Santiago Tunnel.