Some warnings on the older battery which was visibly older than its eastern counterpart. This set of batteries had no railing between the side of the ovens and a long drop onto railroad tracks… I like this picture because it shows the effects of the heat and corrosive gasses on the area around the ovens.
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This drying house was full of ventilation ducts, broken scales, and insulated carts to haul powder around the line.
So much relies on one thing stacked on top of another thing.
In the mine offices, hooks and a board with numbers was the system to keep track of who was in the mine and who was safe.
An old stoker in a power plant that was abandoned long before the mill next to it, by all indications. Sugar mills burned dry beet pulp pellets for fuel.
Brewery Creek Waterfall, somewhere above Duluth. Lit with candles and a small LED panel. To me, it looked like a pipe pouring molten metal.
These stairs connected some small main-level offices with one of the main sewing rooms above. Because the roof on this building was strong, it was pretty well preserved–look at those colors. Through the open fire door on the left, though, you can see that the roof has given out.
This mean-looking thing had a purpose, probably, but that function has been lost to decades of expansion.
Heavy wood doors for keeping people in.
For some time, Purina ran a feed service out of the elevator. Inside and outside were signs of its past presence.