Spherical Tank

One of the covered rail loading docks. All of them were overgrown and rust-clad.

One of my favorite images from my stay… Note the snowed-over road in the distance! This is looking toward Animas Forks.

It is unclear when the ‘Superior Warehouse Company’ sign was put up, but it was likely around 1916-1917, when maps indicate it served as a dry goods warehouse, operated by Twohy-Eimon Mercantile Company. The Sivertson sign was likely added in the mid-1980s. In this image I tried to preserve the colors the bricks turn at sunset.

These stairs connected some small main-level offices with one of the main sewing rooms above. Because the roof on this building was strong, it was pretty well preserved–look at those colors. Through the open fire door on the left, though, you can see that the roof has given out.

Away from the rest of the plant–as if forgotten, or hiding–is this little stamp press. Yes, this is little by press standards.

The Brown Hotel still stands, but has recently gone out of business again. One of the nice things about historic buildings in New Mexico, though, is things tend to stay around a lot longer than if they were subjected to lots of rain and snow. It will probably be reopened eventually.

The basements of the barracks were often stone and brick, and many of them were connected by short tunnels.

On top of the light hoop, 160-feet up, a ship comes into port, ready to load-up. If you look really close, you can see my shadow cast on the dock below, courtesy of the full moon.

Looking from the rail shipping building through pigeon-proofing chicken wire at another manufacturing building in high Fall.