An open mine cars waits to be lowered back into Eagle Mine in front of the rust-locked modern mine shaft in the middle of Gilman.
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Between the catwalks of Furnace 6, the molted ore would flow through the chute.
A typical stretch of the assembly line.
This elevator was built in 1922 and was used until the passing rails were removed in the mid-1970s.
Looking toward the famous Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge from Lake Superior. Shot on a the legendary Pentax 67.
A Kiva is an underground, or partly underground, chamber for ceremonies.
A typical dwelling in San Luis. I could not tell if it was occupied, but most of the town is abandoned.
The small door leads to the offices, the large door leads to the shop. My back at this time is to the corrugated steel wall. At the time I wondered why there was just one steel wall, not knowing that 40 years before there was another spot for an engine here. This section of the roundhouse has become a sort of town dump–car seats, cans of paint and tires are piled into its corners.
Fall in line, act skinny, watch out for low hanging pipes. Don’t ask me where in the maze this was… 90% of the plant looked like this; vast rooms and catwalks with crisscrossing pipes and valves.
Near the guard post protecting the launch pad at the Duluth BOMARC is an orange windsock.