Duluth, Missabe & Northern Boiler The Engine House’s boiler, which would have been fired all day all day, virtually from the day the shop opened until the day it closed. Similar Images ...based on the tags: boilers, coal, dirty, favorites, ghost-signs, light-painted, machinery, numbers, pipes, rusty, signs, steel, valves... Construction in 2014 reveals a lost stone sign. The well-worn chair in one larry’s operator cab, next to an overgrown coke battery. A simple porcelain fountain in the original brewhouse. The water fountain, no doubt, is not original. Watch your head, say the colors. This side of the plant is apparently still standing and is owned by the city. Can you imagine workers in a food plant smoking on the job today? Depending on the position of the valve, flour could be routed from the filtering process back into a mill. When I revisited the mine in 2013, the hoists were scrapped and sitting by the road. Two ghost signs on top of each other. One is for a warehouse. Christmas lights from the time Island Station was an art studio lean against a rusty boiler.