Part of the decommissioned plant was used by the Air Force for virtual bombing runs. This is the guard shack for the radar station.
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Because Oshkosh is close to Green Bay, the Packers are very popular there. Everywhere in the plant there were traces of ‘Cheese Head’ culture.
This is one of the modern nurse’s stations where the last inpatients lived in the mid-2000s. The windows are thick shatterproof plastic. I am unsure why the suspended ceiling is missing.
One chute drops grain on a conveyor for storage in the north silo cluster, while another is ready to deposit the flow where the conveyor cannot reach. Instead of engineering the belt to trip in reverse, the silos under the workhouses have their own chutes.
When it was convenient, the sugar company would pull equipment, even pipes, from one mill for another.
Since this picture was taken, the roof has totally collapsed in this area.
Shadows of the rusty trestle and cold control towers on the Barker. Workers are preparing to swing over the sides of the boat to help secure her to the Minnesota Power dock.
Frankie and Quarantine pictured.
A photo from the early 2000s before the conveyors were scrapped.