Lockers

The top of the docks are so rotten in places that you can see the lake through the boards. In the foreground you can see the controls for the chutes, which work on a clutch.

Asbestos-cord-wrapped glass tongs piled in a shed next to the pouring line.

A long exposure under the trestle-like approach to the dock, under which trains still pass regularly.

The conveyorway between the on-site grain elevator and mill.

Sluice tables stretch into the darkness.

At the top of the workhouse, dust collection pipes weave through cross-crossing conveyors.

Latin; to grow. Root of the English word ‘surge’.

These corner pilings served as bumpers… a little assurance against wind, ice, and new captains.

This is what it might have looked like if a new Ford descended in the elevator with its headlights on. As seen from the Mississippi side–the opposite portal faces the sand mine.