The power plant of the Old Crow distillery was mostly original. I didn’t have a tripod, so I had to balance my camera on the equipment there.
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The old boilers of the steam plant have been mostly gutted to remove loose asbestos.
Dust explosions were a real risk for grain mills. These funnels helped to filter the air in the mill.
Beside the half-demolished Thunder Bay Elevator shops and offices (brick building) are some rusting fishing boats. A little bit of SWP #7 is seen in the upper right.
Much of the circa-1950s buildings remain with few alterations, such as these long boring sheet metal ruststicks.
From the slip where grain boats would tie for loading and unloading, the unloader juts in a modernist-architectural way that is oddly visibly satisfying. Inside that white building is the retracted boat unloader, more or less a long and sturdy conveyor attached to a joint and crane motor. There used to be four loaders that looked like simple tubes with cranes and ropes attached hanging from this side of the elevator. All that remains of those is one fixture on the white building (not visible here) and the frame of one on the elevator proper, visible in the upper-middle of this image, to the right of the unloader apparatus.
A control panel that was mothballed, anticipating a time when the plant may be reactivated.
Pipe fittings in little drawers, lit by tea lights.
A typical large mine tunnel. You can just make out the narrow gauge rail.
Latin; to grow. Root of the English word ‘surge’.