Chopped

We mark our world in unexpected ways… this is how patient possessions would be stored during their stay in the old asylum wards. It’s about the size of a shoebox, and this particular drawer has a name where the others do not. Its place reminded me of the hospital cemetery where more than 3,000 are buried and less than 1% of whom are recorded by stone or plaque in their resting place.

Easier-to-demolish parts of the power plant were torched apart. Catwalks to nowhere meant lots of dead ends.

A pink room with very heavy doors that reminds me of the rooms at some of the insane asylums that I’ve explored.

This was one of two skyways that went between production line offices. It’s easy to tell because it’s not reinforced for machinery to travel through it. I also like that it’s a double-decker, so to speak.

Demolition about 75% complete.

Mammoth Mine overlooks Central City from atop Mammoth Hill. In the distance you can make out Coeur d’Alene Mine (red), which operated from 1885 through 1940.

From bottom to top: The demolished Dock 3, the abandoned Dock 4, and the active BNSF Taconite Dock.

This was not always the top of the elevator.

“The fresh snow mixed indistinguishably from the ashes of the half-demolished power plant.”