Sunrise over Mill Hell, and all of Kurth’s various skyways. The elevators in the foreground date to the mid-1920s, Electric Steel is behind and is a little earlier than that.
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A passing cloud almost looks like a puff of smoke from the trimmed smokestack of Consolidated D. In the lower corner you can see a little Stonehenge that someone with a sense of humor and heavy equipment built.
Sometime soon, maybe in early 2016, someone will have this view from their office or condo.
One of my favorite visual feature of grain elevators, especially big ones, is how they repeat.
Blending the explosive ingredients was dangerous. It is no wonder that the blending house had so many emergency slides.
I love the ghost sign across these two elevators, originally built as Superior Elevator. It’s looking pretty rough.
There is a flipped tram car about a third of the way down the cliff.
Why the elevator cars were removed or who removed them is unclear to me, but I do hope they still exist somewhere outside of a Honda frame. Judging from the decorations heaped on the doors and their frames, the cars themselves must have been beautiful.
An abandoned ranch on the east side of the tracks. This was not the Colmor Cutoff they were waiting for.
The old way to get to the elevator from the mill.