Dead Light

For a short time, CN mounted flood lights atop the abandoned dock.

The control room was used through the mid-1990s as the plant was used to stabilize the power grid.

The Peavey logo, before it rusted off and the offices were demolished.

Looking from the shaft room into the room where an electric hoist would be.

The steel awning and its elegant staircase are one of my favorite features near the old carpentry shop. The gymnasium-theater is in the background.

Soft rain on Vulcan’s ashy pyre… Both of these peaks are dead volcanos, too hard to be totally washed away by storms. As a result, they seem to rise dramatically from the flat valley.

Vines are finding their way into the roundhouse.

Fake Fact: The term ‘stovetop hat’ was coined by Island Station’s architect while trying to explain why he wanted to put the steel chimney on the station. ‘Live Here’ was part of the advertising when the building was host to artist lofts. They weren’t kidding.

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.” ― Emily Dickinson