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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Most of the gauges on the control panels were broken.
Because of the dangers of storing the materials to make explosives as well as the explosives themselves, there were earthen bunkers all across the plant like this.
Looking into the main workhouse from the skyway into the annex elevator. But who care? Look at the colors!
The sun was setting outside, highlighting the textures and lines that made the form of the power plant take a fourth dimension–time.
The nitrating house was a chemically dangerous place, so it had thick metal and concrete shield for every station right next to an emergency shower.
Note the tiled floor between the bucket conveyors and an old mill.
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 down the kiln line from atop the furnaces.
A morning shower made the plant’s metal siding shake… probably nothing, though, compared to when the furnaces were blasting. The objects on the ground are molten ore containers.