Grain Feeds

The beet juice was boiled down to make a syrup, which would be drained down the trough to the crystalizers.

Judging from old pictures and maps, raw ore was dumped through these hatches, stamped into a rough powder, and hastily sorted before sending the best ore to the mill. Mills charged by tons of rock sent to them, so it did not pay to send them obvious tails.

Another ruined spiral staircase in the mill.

2005. A skyway connecting two Which tube carried the beer? I hope it’s the big one!

I believe this is the push car, meaning it would push the charge in the oven out the opposite side into the train car.

Detail view of one of the fermenting tanks, still set-up for the distillery tours that no doubt took place when there last were such things. Nevertheless, the capacity of this tank multiplied across these all over the distillery floor really shows the power this company once had.

In the upper left of the image you can see where the gas tanks used to be, along with the concentration equipment. Along the bottom you can also see some of the many railroad tracks coming and going from the plant–the ones visible here were incoming tracks that carried in hard coal from the eastern US.

Downtown and the blight.

A natural reaction with this kind of view.