The boiler room has four big boilers in it, which seems like overkill. No wonder this plant could supply power to the works and the town at full capacity!
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It would be a shame if this building is not preserved. Word is (as of 2015) that construction may start on this section soon.
A machine to cast copper billets.
Chutes connect the bottoms of the silos to a conveyor belt.
Steel mine hoists, near the place they worked, wait for scrap prices to justify their final removal from Osceola, Michigan.
A wimpy crane by most standards, only suitable for moving around parts of steam turbines.
Wind-battered catwalk lights between the shaft house and headframe/rockhouse building.
The only way to get to the second floor–since demolition crews punched-out the staircases and ladders leading upwards–was to climb this elevator shaft. In the lower-left corner is a blower for the foundry furnaces.
A comrade lights-up where so many workers apparently congregated to do the same.
This building was an office and lounge for engineers. It is also demolished.