When I moved from the roof back into the upper floors of the distillery, the plants growing out of the masonry caught my eye. It’s 60 feet up, but looks like it could be an old wall.
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Looking into the engine works from the concrete addition.
From the bottom of the skyway I looked back, my eyes tracing the vines from the marsh up the smokestacks to the perfect Midwestern sky.
Note the severed skyway–that led to a set of grain elevators that have since been demolished.
A handmade sign tracks the progress through the current beet campaign. For this factory, it was about 30 years ago. Perhaps the idea was to pit shifts against each other.
The arches of the Twohy building, before some of the signs and sills were painted in 2015.
The boiler doors are beautiful, and feature the name of the smelter and mine company. If you like these, check my article on the Mitchell Yards of Hibbing, MN.
One of the machines left over in the underground magnetic separation plant.
A single metal emergency slide rusts away at sunrise.
On my first visit to the roundhouse, the control booth was extant.