An old name for an older elevator, as seen from an abandoned rail spur.
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Connecting the Administration building’s tower and top floors is this beautiful cast iron staircase. It was probably designed to help service the clock originally planned to be set in the tower, but when the hospital went over budget the state cancelled the timepiece. Now we are left with a gorgeous stair with little or no real purpose–not that I’m complaining. I am a long-admitted spiral staircase fetishist.
In what Studebaker called the ‘Materials Building’ are these giant concrete bins of fine molding sand, there for casting metal parts using the molten metal from the adjoining building. On the far left side there is a train track and once upon a time a gantry crane traced the room under the roof
One of two control towers that reached over the lake. The control panel here was used to move the conveyors over the ship’s hold doors, adjust flow of the taconite, and so on.
The fresh snow makes the whole complex look a lot cleaner than it actually is.
With the maintenance door open you can see the buckets on in the vertical conveyor.
A shot of Longmont from the highway. Fuji 35mm.
Allouez had already suffered one major fire. It didn’t need another–especially under Dock 1’s wooden approach.
The balcony used to be beautiful, you say. I say, it still is.
Science Alert. When the sun strikes an object, that object absorbs some of the infared light in the form of heat. The heat absorbed by the old Soo dock absorbed and radiated that energy to melt off the snow from the ice around it, making it very reflective.