There are so many pipes i the factory–I wonder how many people knew where they all went, in the days these machines operated at capacity.
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One of the principal businesses in McConnell was a farm implement and lumber store. This is too new to have been bought there, but I like that it’s still on the edge of town. It’s more comfortable than the emptiness beyond, that used to be a little prairie town.
The remains of the surgical suite.
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.
The hoist room, before it was used for storage.
Ben.
A side view of the oven pusher from the ground. The tallest coal bunker looks tiny in the distance, though on the scale of the factory it’s practically on top of me as I’m taking the picture.
Copper thieves haven’t left anything behind but the shell.
Chutes from a hundred machines interconnect to more machines and chutes on a dozen factory floors.
Spots of yellow gravel mark gold mines with nothing left on the surface. Is this one of the drainage pipes?