As photographed from a cement piling for Slip #3 poured in 1935, disconnected from land by erosion. How do I know the date? A pair of steamship engineers carved their initials and ranks into the wet cement!
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The scale of the grain hoppers helps tell the story of how large Hamm’s was in its day.
A cracked sign at dock-level, where loading boats would be tied below the taconite conveyors. All across the surface of the concrete dock were taconite pellets, like slippery little marbles. One wrong step could put a worker in the water, which is a bad, bad place to be.
Asbestos rope isn’t something you can buy at Home Depot anymore, but it’s fire and heat resistant stuff; great for industrial work, like in a sugar mill.
You can see why so few products had bright packaging. If the can here was brown, you’d never see it in a dark wood cabinet.
Where staff could sleep.
If it weren’t for the fact there were trees growing from it, and that I cropped out the end of the rail approach, one might think this is still used occasionally.
Pointing a light at my camera from down Miller Creek Drain. Do you see the scale of it? It’s huge!
The sun sets in front of a huge concrete building—about four times the size of the power plant. Probably a corn storage bin from an ethanol operation that ran here in the 1980s.
Looking at the ghost sign from a rust-locked cement conveyor that linked the silos with a packing warehouse.