Everything had to be tested before being sent to the front lines. Here’s where smaller ammunition would be test-fired. I was able to dig up several misfired rounds. Now they live in my collection of oddities.
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Looking past the Osborn along the side of the Hughitt Slip, where there have always been grain elevators for more than 100 years.
Beside the shaft building are two fans on skids, indicating they were used underground.
Taken around 11,600 feet.
A multi-family home with an attic bedroom. The staircase was unstable, to say the least.
This office, as seen from the power plant, administered the bonded warehouses. There used to be a few more of them, according to old maps and postcards.
Early bird catches the shadow of Battle Mountain blaring across the ghost town.
A look upriver at the crane of the Port of Detroit, quiet for the night, and the Ambassador Bridge, always humming with Canadian traffic. Downtown Detroit is beautiful, if nobody told you.
The end of the dock disappears in the fog.
Cheratte lives on in the shadow of its abandoned coal mine, although most of the shops are abandoned and many of the city’s landmarks have fallen into disrepair. Like other Belgian mining towns, those who have stayed in the town have kept up their apartments, so much of the company-building duplexes and homes are in great condition.