Was the last job of this hook to lift the remaining equipment out of the hoist hall? The control boards, giant electric motors and transformers?
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The office for the maintenance shop was sound-insulated and ventilated.
This is a typical view of the factory; most of it was long hallways flanked by piles of equipment and access points to maintain them.
A furnace control panel, cut off its subordinate before the plant closed, no doubt to be replaced. I like this shot because it shows that many of the smaller machines were engineered by the plant itself.
Looking out of the American diesel crane at the gantry crane that ran the length of the dock.
Watching the demolition of one stockhouse from another. The two cranes were removing steel storage tanks.
Without a roof, the bricks were being washed away in the later years of the roundhouse.
Hanging over the crane cab, looking over at the trane-sized doors below. The steel beam tracing the left wall is the support for the gantry crane this photo was taken from.
Some of the ruins are way off the beaten path… foundations of tank stands and pillars of buildings that never had walls or roofs.
Gaskets still organized on nails beside the power plant. This used to be a maintenance room, but since its roof and walls were torn down, it’s not any kind of room.