It seems someone planned on stealing the fridge, but gave up on the second floor.
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This part of the workhouse was sheathed in fiberglass, but now you can see its insides from a mile away.
Clothing and a guest bed left behind.
An old stoker in a power plant that was abandoned long before the mill next to it, by all indications. Sugar mills burned dry beet pulp pellets for fuel.
An old handcart sits next to a rotting elevator.
A comrade lights-up where so many workers apparently congregated to do the same.
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.
A white star marks the landing between the Keeper’s Quarters (Second Floor) and the radiobeacon and furnace rooms (First Floor).
On the left is the broken glass room that contains the controls for the cable spool, now gone, that sat in the metal shell on the right. The stairs led down to the hoisting engine itself. You can make out the slits where the cable ran up to the headframe tower through the gaping archway.
Rims where bulbs were, light were motors were, stairs were people were.