Because there’s no Port-a-John underground.
Similar Images
...based on the tags: carts, numbers, rusty, stencils, toilets, tunnels...
Much of the plant depended on steam, not only for heat but for mechanical power.
In what used to be a hallway under what used to be a skyway, each with what had conveyor belts for the grain that once was stored here. The fog doesn’t change.
The boiler doors are beautiful, and feature the name of the smelter and mine company. If you like these, check my article on the Mitchell Yards of Hibbing, MN.
Looking through the trestle toward the ghost town.
It’s never a good sign when the windows are boarded from the inside.
An ajar car elevator car afar, technically.
Looking up the tallest structure left at ACME.
The main shaft’s cable spooled with bird castings belies the fact that lives used to dangle from its steel-wound strength. Arrows on the circles would indicate the mine level the cars were currently at.
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.