Behind the factory was an old truck, blocked in by overgrown trees on one side and the buildings on the other.
Looking above the altar.
Furnace #7, as seen from #6’s catwalks. Cue morning fog.
Circa-1960s graffiti. Someone got their ass kicked.
This might have been part of the Pioneer Pellet Plant. It looks to be a ball mill, which pulverizes ore by spinning it with thousands of ball bearings.
Scrappers tried to take this steel pulley out of Fisher, but it proved too heavy.
The ’59’ is just a reference to that work station. Unfortunately the scrappers beat me to this machine–there was not much left besides the 2-ton shell and this control panel.
An interesting crane in the back of the machine shop. It seems very light duty, so I am not certain what it was used for.
I like to think of this as a giant straw, through which the factory is slowly draining the earth, leaving nothing but reinforced concrete below…
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