Dust explosions were a real risk for grain mills. These funnels helped to filter the air in the mill.
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Looking down the walkway that traces the bottom side of the ore dock.
Island Station, in the middle of the power house, in the middle of a thunder storm. Flapping pipe covers and sheets of ran penetrating one massive arched window and blasting through the other, as winds power through the building from the Mississippi. The sound of the thunder made every length of steel squeak under the pressure.
Wind blew taconite dust against the walls of these suspended control room, making even the glass appear to rust.
This ornamental stair is cast iron and used to connect all floors of the Administration building. Now it connects the first and second floor, then the third and fourth floors, with a strange cinder block and drywall barrier separating the new and old sections of the building. Note the insulation on the floor to seal heat into the lower floors that were used as offices until the hospital closed. On the corners of the staircase are lions, on the corners of the suspended section of stair are down-hanging pineapples. Set in the stairs themselves are shield motifs with slate tops.
Standing atop the dust collector, the factory breaks down into diverging patterns, processes.
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A huge steel tank, one of several left over, left over from either the Ashland Oil or Allied Chemical periods.
Heavy industrial looks good in cotton candy pink.
A reminder to the manlift riders to get off the belt before they hit their heads on the ceiling. This is the top level of the headhouse, where dust collectors would extract most of the grain bits from the air to reduce risk of explosion.