Aluminum spools replaced their wooden counterparts, later in the factory’s history.
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The crumbling building barely contained the colors inside of it.
As a storm moves across Lake Superior toward Duluth, an ore freighter anchors behind the Superior light station.
No Bibles were left in the pews, only golf pencils.
The hoist signal dangling beside the modern mine shaft would ring a bell next to the giant electric motors that would send the men and machinery into the underground.
The pockmarked concrete sign of Substation #2 over the control room that faces the highway.
A few from atop the steam gauges along the western wall. The turbines were scrapped quickly after the plant closed, it seemed.
The iconic outline of a prairie sentinel. Quintessential rural industrial architecture.
The great stenciled number on this chute caught my eye.