Much of the milling equipment predated the mill itself, so I would not be surprised if this particular machine really dates to 1860.
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A huge steel tank, one of several left over, left over from either the Ashland Oil or Allied Chemical periods.
A diesel crane and conveyor belt tripper are the major pieces of equipment that dominate the dock.
A typical lab at the Research Center.
A closeup of the pulleys atop Manitoba Pool #3 which once pulled conveyor belts full of grain across the cupola building as it was sorted into the silos below.
Levers and indicators to control and track the path of mine cars moving up and down the mine shaft. Note the mine depth indicators would trace paper… this is because the steel cables stretch out over time, so the line length changes with the years.
A polaroid (FP100c, actually) of the newer grain car dumper.
The tailings boom is the first and last thing you see when approaching the mountaintop shipwreck.
Funny how sensitive modern English speakers have become to gendered language. I doubt the workers here–almost all female–were offended by this posting for ‘Workmen’s Compensation’.
Behind the barge unloader (a Webster for those grain tech nerds out here) that used to extract grain from docked boats. The ladders are fun to climb, even though they get warped and wavy in places. High in the elevator would have been a crane engine that would lift the unloader, packed with a bucket conveyor, while workers would manipulate the direction of the spout with ropes manually. The buckets would rotate, scraping and elevating the grain into the silos above. It’s a rare piece of equipment for the Great Lakes.