Look at the floor–do you see the hole? That goes down a lonnnnnng ways.
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Looking down the Gilman-Belden tram.
This is what it might have looked like if a new Ford descended in the elevator with its headlights on. As seen from the Mississippi side–the opposite portal faces the sand mine.
This mean-looking thing had a purpose, probably, but that function has been lost to decades of expansion.
I never knew that all those elementary school balance bar exercises were for a very serious purpose: not falling to one’s death in the event they uncover lost Chicago history.
Storms and waves, focused by the Port of Wisconsin entry have focused the faces to tear-up these boards below.
The hole in the floor, I like to joke, is a not-so-sneaky trap for the photographers creeping to get a close-up of the amazing peeling paint. I somehow escaped this snare, however, to warn the rest… perhaps you.
The first 800 or so feet of the tunnel is finished with reinforced concrete. The test is raw stone. This is the spot where it switches. Side note: nailing this shot on film is one of my proudest light-painted moments.
What are we to do in an emergency?
I love when moss grows indoors… one of the little pleasures of exploring abandonments.