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A bird near the old schoolyard.
Workers would undoubtedly prefer to use the belt manlift on the right.
The steam plant could be vertically traversed with this one-man belt driven elevator.
The power pulley that ran air compressors straight off of the steam plant’s axel.
” Joe Sheldon; R.K. ’47-’48”. Brick Graffiti Series.
On the ground floor of the main factory there seems to be only one chair left.
A scrapped steam turbine, perhaps. In the background you can see a gutted casing for another turbine.
Identical warehouses seem a little newer than the rest of the plant. I suspect these were added in the mid-1950s for the Korean War, during which about 200 buildings were added to the complex.
I had to climb into the roof of the half-demolished skyway to see through to the other side of the train shed. That’s my foot in the corner.