One of a few rolling workbenches to keep the thousands of pulleys, cogs, and belts working properly.
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Cobbled walkways followed the assembly lines.
Fall in line, act skinny, watch out for low hanging pipes. Don’t ask me where in the maze this was… 90% of the plant looked like this; vast rooms and catwalks with crisscrossing pipes and valves.
Peering into a remote office at Manitoba Wheat Pool #3. Someone left their to-do list behind.
A heavy steel rail door to help funnel explosions upward, rather than outward.
The aerial tram at the Mayflower Mill gives a sense of what the Gold Prince Mill in Animas Forks once looked like. Trams connected the mill to the mines around it without the need to negotiate trees, rivers, and rough terrain.
A window for light and air pokes above the big arch in the hallway. Most of the interior ceilings were broad brick archways.
My favorite shot from the trip. Later in its life, the plant was converted to burn its own byproducts, but it seems this was designed as a coal hopper.
A custom ladder to cross conveyor belts on the work floor.
Cracked gauges have a certain quality that hearkens to movies, I think. One can imagine the gauges going off the scales before dramatically cracking, throwing glass right at the camera. This damage, however, is unfortunate vandalism.