At the top of the elevator was a distribution room to direct the grain onto conveyor belts below.
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The roof of the elevator was partly lit naturally with six big skylights. The less electricity pumped into a grain elevator, the less chance of a grain dust explosion.
The crumbling building barely contained the colors inside of it.
A high-ceilinged room where kegs would be delivered for cleaning, before they were refilled with fresh booze.
In the Lime House, the sunset picked-up the last light of day to make this image. Lime is used in the beet sugar refinement process to reduce the acidity of the beet juice mixture.
Two steel hoppers supported by counterweights and springs, which were used to weigh incoming grain loads before being deposited in the silos beneath this floor. Garner is another way to say “big measuring tank”, if you were wondering. I fell in love with all the tubes and chutes on this floor.
A closeup of a flour chute.
The west portal of the tunnel is open, and if it wasn’t for the rough track, I would think by looking at it that a train could be coasting up behind me any moment. Mamiya 6/Portra 160
Watch your head, say the colors. This side of the plant is apparently still standing and is owned by the city.
Another ruined spiral staircase in the mill.