The scale of the grain hoppers helps tell the story of how large Hamm’s was in its day.
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He had the knees of a stallion. RIP.
A single metal emergency slide rusts away at sunrise.
While the stokers are gone, the pipes bringing pulverized coal down were left.
On the boarded-up first floor of the house proper near the door to the chapel, the last pew sites next to a wet box of Bibles.
Some of the internal staircases were fitted with cages that wound round down the stairs to deter suicidal patients from taking a dive.
The elevator works on gravity… this is where a conveyor belt was to move the grain toward the main elevator to be loaded into ships.
In front of a rust-welded Illinois rotary stoker is where the boiler-men made their mark. The last year I can make out is 1985.
Looking across the catwalk behind the ore chutes, when they were up, and at the top of the ore chutes during loading.
Sarah in Miller Creek Drain.