Balcony

A rare door left on the workhouse. The stairs to the left led down into a flooded basement. Kodak Portra 160/Mamiya 6.

This old ward, not a victim of remodeling, still has metal screens over the open windows of the doors. It should be obvious why glass were not used.

The St. Louis County Sheriff constantly patrols the property looking for trespassers.

A bunk room, minus the bunks.

On the boarded-up first floor of the house proper near the door to the chapel, the last pew sites next to a wet box of Bibles.

A number of skyways carried the production line across roads and railroad tracks in and around the plant. An identical skyway to this one was cut off sometime in the past decade (judging by the rust), probably for its steel.

The stock house tanks were long scrapped for their steel, but what remains gives a sense of what it looked like.

There were a few traces of the building’s past, mostly in the doors and floors, some of which still had rails embedded in the concrete. The building could store 174 streetcars inside of its walls.

End of the paint line. After reading Father Action’s excellent-as-always writeup about his adventures here, I was pretty cautious around big spinning alarms. (See http://www.actionsquad.org/fordII1.html)