I am not sure what this machine does, but I have a hunch that it husks and cleans the sugar beets as they come into the plant. It is certainly the biggest single piece of equipment in any of the mills.
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Looking between the asbestos house and mineral (lime) house.
The left wall is stacked high with wooden crates holding spools. Tags hang on machines describing the last batch of silk the mill ever produced.
Looking from the crane-motor catwalk into the Calumet. The arm shown here with the pulleys looped through it would have been lowered and the bucket conveyor in it would throw grain to waiting ships and boats bound for flour mills and foreign lands.
Too big to be scrapped, to simple to be auctioned. It waited for the demo crews and demo cranes to arrive.
Detail view of one of the fermenting tanks, still set-up for the distillery tours that no doubt took place when there last were such things. Nevertheless, the capacity of this tank multiplied across these all over the distillery floor really shows the power this company once had.
Most of the control panels were faceless. No doubt, they were parted out to keep other sugar mills alive.
The sliding nuclear-blast-hardened door that would shield the missile during an attack.
Sliding curtains gave a little privacy to the residents of this room, which looked and felt more medicinal than most of the other multi-patient rooms.
A polaroid (FP100c, actually) of the newer grain car dumper.