Tunnels interconnected all of the complex, carrying power, steam, laundry and food throughout the hospital. This is a typical causeway that would have been very busy when the hospital was operating. In some places, signs still point to defunct areas of the hospital.
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Frontier Gas is a former (?) gas station chain. Chain O’ mines reused a scrapped sign to mark their mill. Under the paint you can barely make out: GLORY HOLE GOLD MILL.
A big door into the fire pump room.
The bricks routinely fell from the walls, like seeds falling from trees. On a smaller scale, new walls grew from the floors.
There are so many pipes i the factory–I wonder how many people knew where they all went, in the days these machines operated at capacity.
Looking from the mill at the old transfer elevator’s steel tanks.
The middle section of the smokestacks were coal hoppers, and this device would load the coal into the hoppers from the conveyor belt it rode across. The bottom section of the stacks were storage rooms while the very top were, surprise, chimneys for the power plant.
A wrecked pressure gauge and employee time cards.
Approaching the tunnel I heard about for so long…
A view of the government presses, with pages of law across the floor covered in footprints.