A few remnants of the control room that were not vandalized at this point; now it’s a different story, unfortunately. The tile is glazed ceramic to be permanently nonconductive.
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A shuttered house at the end of the block doesn’t even have boards on it anymore.
Mammoth Mine overlooks Central City from atop Mammoth Hill. In the distance you can make out Coeur d’Alene Mine (red), which operated from 1885 through 1940.
Approaching the power station and its giant stack. The stack replaced four shorter stacks in the 1960s, helping with pollution in the downtown corridor.
Old boathouses near the dock.
A typical rail shop.
Levers and indicators to control and track the path of mine cars moving up and down the mine shaft. Note the mine depth indicators would trace paper… this is because the steel cables stretch out over time, so the line length changes with the years.
Old conveyor belts are draped over the sides of the ore chutes to cut down on the noise and wear of the dumping trains.
When I saw this section, I knew the dock was abandoned.
A half acre of switchboards and switches, circuit breakers and generators. Modern.