Three Charts

After climbing the elevator shaft to the illusive second level, a new pallet of colors were revealed.

A squat building with a rail scale. Taken between rain showers in late summer, when I seemed to be the only one at White Pine.

In this photo you see three lives of Lyric: 1.) The Art Deco murals showing the Vaudeville background; 2.) The suspended ceiling put in when the building was converted for film; 3.) The explorers, photographers and others who worked in and on the building before its final demolition.

These buildings were largely used as concentrators for the crushed rock, although I did spy some small mills inside these too.

When the ship loaders were added, a doorway was cut through the metal silo to make a room for the grain handling equipment. Note the dust sensor in the corner of the torch-cut archway.

Miller Creek, in one of the wider sections that features a trout (as in the fish) canal in the middle of the drain. Even though it is underground, the fish are able to visit their breeding ponds upstream by swimming through the specially designed tunnel.

Parts lockers on the top floor of the power plant.

In this old repair shop, vines fall from the rotting roof to meet mossy concrete. Even though it had been dry for days, water dripped in from the roof to make permanent puddles between workstations. It was full of color and sound and industry and nature.

A lime auger and massive feet of the lime hopper.