Without their walls these Solvent Recovery Line buildings look like blast walls. Their concrete inner structures were part of the design so if there was an explosion inside it would ‘blow out’ with a puff instead of a bang. Now most of these are demolished or overgrown.
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All of the bucket conveyors crashed on this work floor when their casings were scrapped. Note all of the valves to open the grain flow.
A high-voltage tunnel sheathed in concrete dips below ground near a shell packing building that now stores fireworks.
An elevator is reflected in the flooded footprint of Spencer & Kellogg. These trains are in storage for the winter.
“W.B.R. 1974”
Looking through the hole where a glass pane once was at the Columbus Mine ruins, just south of Animas Forks. It was quiet when I took the picture, but for the gurgle of the nearby Animas River.
Taken from the most forward part of the windlass room to show how the front of the ship opens up from the front wedge. Note the giant anchor chains and foam strapped to the frontmost beam.
The piano must have been a nice distraction; there is very little to do in Roberts.
The last of four radar domes on the base.
David Aho, the owner of Mitchell Engine House, poses beside the boiler.