Pipes to channel nitrose (think nitro glycerine) infused acid through the building.
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Looking at the ghost sign from a rust-locked cement conveyor that linked the silos with a packing warehouse.
The working end of the blast furnace, where molten metal would flow like lava out of the furnace… a process called ‘tapping’.
Redlining is the practice of shutting certain races out of neighborhoods, and it is still a big problem today. Such behaviors were a big factor in creating the need for these projects.
A huge vent looks like it built in a hurry. There was actually very little in the way of bits of machinery left over… I am guessing almost anything of value was scrapped in the 1990s.
This is the crane that would be used to lower extra-heavy bits of copper ore into the fire of the furnace.
He bites.
The city has taken steps to prevent the curious and the desperate from going into the elevators, including piling rocks against the doors and windows.
Between the ice chute and the back of the north section of the cellars, a little pillar shows where a room used to be. The ceiling’s disintegration has since filled the space, which seems to be the last point of expansion in the cave–this was last carved in the mid-1840s.
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.