Shoes

The women of the hospital made clothes for the other patients.

In the mine offices, a training manual for miners sits open. Here’s how you signal to the surface if you are trapped after a disaster.

I had to search the shelves a while to find this old logbook. The open page lists changes in stock numbers for Cutler Hammer Coils, and one row says that a new coil was installed on the black larry. The larry is the machine that loads coke ovens.

A typical room in Birtle.

Those able to work would be compelled to help fix up the facility, grow, harvest, and prepare food for fellow ‘inmates’, or work on vocational skills.

Looking up the tallest structure left at ACME.

An abandoned news stand between the concourse and ticket booths. This is one of my favorite pictures from the 2000s.

Equipment that did not sell at auction.

A broken window looking through the First Aid Room and into the Control Room in charge of directing grain into ships. You can see one of the large conveyors on the right, clad in green. Chutes and staircases intertwine seemingly randomly through the big empty spaces.