Roger O.

We mark our world in unexpected ways… this is how patient possessions would be stored during their stay in the old asylum wards. It’s about the size of a shoebox, and this particular drawer has a name where the others do not. Its place reminded me of the hospital cemetery where more than 3,000 are buried and less than 1% of whom are recorded by stone or plaque in their resting place.

The powerhouse had two elevated tracks behind it, one for coal and one for deliveries.

This “pit” would allow workers to crawl below locomotives to service them.

These wide spools sit atop the abandoned tracks that lead to the train shed, which was later repurposed into a truck shed.

There are a few campers parked in the abandoned buildings around the NAD. I am guessing that they were once a more secure place to store such things OR they have always been wide open, and this was a quick and free way to dump unwanted toys.

Giant ingredient hoppers stand on a concrete floor covered in peeled paint.

A closeup of a flour chute.

Between the catwalks of Furnace 6, the molted ore would flow through the chute.

The end of the new elevator. Line of bird droppings follow the fire sprinkler pipes and wires in the room.