Grain Feeds

Much of the circa-1950s buildings remain with few alterations, such as these long boring sheet metal ruststicks.

A little sun and a little moisture sprouted this grass in the middle of the steel silos, in the midst of Minneapolis’ “graffiti graveyard”. Two images of time: nature growing through industry and rust dissolving old art in the elements.

Looking down into the lunch building of an Atlas D, near the motors for the retractable roof. In this design, the roof separates to allow the missile to be erected into launch position.

The flour mill’s interior is really just a system of steel and rubber tubes that crush flour over and over in the gap. This mill was never run off of water power directly, but it used to generate power using the river.

Counter-weighted ore cars alternately filled and emptied to feed Furnace 7. Honestly, though, the corner-mounted cranes are sexier in my opinion. Note the trees growing from the stacks.

A train idles beside the Calumet offices. Pentax 67 Medium Format

The grain-centric buildings had automatic fire doors.

At the top of the elevator was a distribution room to direct the grain onto conveyor belts below.