Solvent pumping buildings, designed to explode upwards rather than outwards in an emergency, are forgotten near the milkweed.
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Broken skyways in the sand casting house, where everything was utterly fire-resistant.
The truck scale is closed at Lena, MB.
Wagons and horses were kept in the building on the left, separate from the rest of the complex in case of fire. In the distance is the boiler house, separate for the same reason.
A teeter totter sits in front of the Memorial Building.
The playground used to be near the school which is now in ruins.
A sign on the corner of a laboratory remembers.
This corner of the building was the coal room, used to feed the two big boilers inside. The steam equipment has been replaced with electric, so this section may not have changed much in the past decades.
This heavy door opens directly into the missile vault and was used to load and unload the missile erector.
Looking across the mountain tramway from an abandoned house in Gilman.