Rogers Mine is one of the most structurally sound mines in the Iron River area that isn’t part of a museum.
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Beautiful belt wheels above the grain cribs. Getting to the spot where this was taken is now impossible, and I don’t know whether these remain or not anymore.
The complex was so big that trains could make deliveries through the middle of it, passing below this striped skyway.
The Sun Rooms, or Common Rooms, reminded me of the Panopitcon turned inside-out.
This electric Wellman crane was added to extract coal from ships for the power plant that Erie built beside their dock. Now, with the advent of self-unloading boats, it’s been replaced by a funnel and conveyor belt.
Inside this small iron clad mine is a couch and some clothes. It seems that for a short while, someone was living inside of it…
The Tilston School,built in the late 1960s. In front of it is a memorial and model to the first schoolhouse. This building, however, has been turned into a kind of town dump. The classrooms are filled with mattresses and discarded tires and trash.
Part of the plant has been reused as a scrap metal yard.
Exploring the plant while live Reggae plays nearby was bizarre.