Because there’s no Port-a-John underground.
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A closeup of a soon-to-be-scrapped crane pulley.
Where workers’ pay would be doled out and collected.
Hand painted fire extinguisher notices and a long room which I strongly suspect was a pattern cutting room.
This low brick building is interesting to me.
A natural reaction with this kind of view.
Pillars painted red indicated firefighting supplies. Fire was a very common enemy of early rail facilities, and many roundhouses burned down because of a combination of dry wood, hot, fire-breathing machinery and countless oil-saturated surfaces.
Funny how sensitive modern English speakers have become to gendered language. I doubt the workers here–almost all female–were offended by this posting for ‘Workmen’s Compensation’.
If it weren’t for the fact there were trees growing from it, and that I cropped out the end of the rail approach, one might think this is still used occasionally.
In the nurses’ dormitories, beds, couches and chairs still sit. It’s unclear whether these are remnants of the homeless shelter in the 80s or the actual nurses.