The UP gets a lot of snow, making exploring its old mines a special challenge in the winter. The snow is more than 6 feet deep in this picture, and firm enough to walk on.
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This rod mill (?) was made in Denver Colorado at a factory now buried by condos. #justdenverthings
Spare parts ready for this building’s reactivation.
A splash of pink across an otherwise boring sign caught my eye in the old elevator.
An old stoker in a power plant that was abandoned long before the mill next to it, by all indications. Sugar mills burned dry beet pulp pellets for fuel.
Standing next to the now-demolished records room.
As the Barker steamed past the dock and island, the sunset casts the shadow of the Taconite Harbor receiving trestle on the boat. Through the fog, you can see some of the islands that were joined into a breakwater.
Originally, this part of the dock was reserved for the weather station.
Lockers for the boiler room workers.
It looks like this doorway was bricked up while the building behind it was still being used as a rail shop.