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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Taken from atop a grain train at the end of Cargill B-2, looking toward Lake Superior “I”, now part of the sample complex. This area used to have another slip, but Cargill filled it on when it built the elevator on the right.
For some time, tugboats were stored next to the elevator.
You first.
An unshielded heaframe and single pulley.
We mark our world in unexpected ways… this is how patient possessions would be stored during their stay in the old asylum wards. It’s about the size of a shoebox, and this particular drawer has a name where the others do not. Its place reminded me of the hospital cemetery where more than 3,000 are buried and less than 1% of whom are recorded by stone or plaque in their resting place.
The main street of the ghost town is also the maintenance road for the BNSF line that bisects Colmor.
Checking out the neighbors. Shot on a the legendary Pentax 67.
On the left is the broken glass room that contains the controls for the cable spool, now gone, that sat in the metal shell on the right. The stairs led down to the hoisting engine itself. You can make out the slits where the cable ran up to the headframe tower through the gaping archway.
The middle missile launcher, as seen from the roof of its neighbor.