Sanitization, Seals, Stripes

Somewhere, Bruce Springsteen is playing while an exceedingly furry man tunes his Ford truck in the driveway of a house he built with his bare hands. This is for that person.

All that’s left of the lost annex near Saskatchewan Wheat Pool #4 and #5. Arista 100.

The altar is gone, but the tile work around it isn’t.

The underside of the dock seemed almost like a cathedral to industry with vaulted ceilings.

A stack of tires, some of which are destined for the roof. For some reason, a hundred old tires adorn the roof of the Twohy.

Where the workers would rest their feet and clean their plates.

The Beeghley was launched in 1958… you can see it unloading limestone here with its retrofitted self-unloader. Update: This ship has been renamed the ‘James L. Oberstar’ after the Minnesota Senator. [Read more on Boardnerd.com here: http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/oberstar.htm]

Looking across the whole milling operation from its dedicated powerhouse stretching across Eagle River.

Cracked gauges have a certain quality that hearkens to movies, I think. One can imagine the gauges going off the scales before dramatically cracking, throwing glass right at the camera. This damage, however, is unfortunate vandalism.