Looking down the Gilman-Belden tram.
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All electrical rooms were surrounded by walls, for obvious reasons. Now all the walls are gone, for reasons less obvious.
Timbers overlap where mine cars plunged, a strange wooden fence traced the center of the beams.
The aerial tram at the Mayflower Mill gives a sense of what the Gold Prince Mill in Animas Forks once looked like. Trams connected the mill to the mines around it without the need to negotiate trees, rivers, and rough terrain.
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.
Zug Island is a US Steel plant just south of Detroit, and it really lights up the skyline.
“Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and historian.
Looking out of one of the biggest houses in Animas Forks toward the rest of the residential district. It is hard to imagine the life the people here lived, for those that stayed the winter.
Imagine with yellow window guards are eyebrows and the open windows are the eyes. This headframe seems a bit curious.
Taken at a junction in the tube world.