Vase Line

This heavy door opens directly into the missile vault and was used to load and unload the missile erector.

Funny how sensitive modern English speakers have become to gendered language. I doubt the workers here–almost all female–were offended by this posting for ‘Workmen’s Compensation’.

This picture shows the challenges of moving around underground in the base.

This little curled yellow thing is one of the last hints that this adobe building was lived in.

A panorama of the dock buildings, before the left one was demolished.

This building is now being used to grow fish.

Just across the North Dakota border, a rusty Milwaukee Road boxcar sits where it was shoved off the mainline. The grain elevator in the background marks the tracks, which is still used by BNSF.

The control room floats above the top of the dock atop a spiral staircase.

This wheel scoops the washings from the sluice room and places it on the tailings conveyor.