If there was a problem with the conveyor belt, the grain would go out these chutes.
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One chute drops grain on a conveyor for storage in the north silo cluster, while another is ready to deposit the flow where the conveyor cannot reach. Instead of engineering the belt to trip in reverse, the silos under the workhouses have their own chutes.
Looking into the engine works from the concrete addition.
A side view of the oven pusher from the ground. The tallest coal bunker looks tiny in the distance, though on the scale of the factory it’s practically on top of me as I’m taking the picture.
The slit in the left wall was where cables stretched between the mineshaft and the hoist, which was mounted here.
Rivets are sexy, and this old machine has more than a fair share.
“Five Roses” was the brand of flour that Lake of the Woods marketed. Later, this became another Manitoba Pool elevator. Notice the “POO” up top? It’s missing the ‘L’…
Looking across at the Cargill elevator.
The incinerator’s hardened steel door… useless, but still sexy in a heavy-industrial kind of way.
There were three main stockhouses, two of which still exist, that are filled with tanks like these in addition to Fermentation. Each tank is the size of the city bus and few are left after the 2008-2009 scrapings.