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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A few of the stalls in the older section of the roundhouse, the noon sky peeking in.
The left cave is the largest of the three, and shows the most evidence of expansion.
This section of the production floor was constantly dripping. Someone had laid down giant plastic sheeting to attempt to protect the lower floors, but it hasn’t worked.
Considering the side of Boiler #3’s firebox, where it meets the boiler (between the cylinders). The top piece is where the exhaust is sucked into the chimney, one chimney for each pair of boilers.
The layout and design of the buildings reminded me strongly of a brewery or distillery. To the right you can see some of the retrofits by the first lumber company to buy the buildings, in the 1970s.
“This way,” then, “No, that way!”
Did you leave in a hurry?
A gateway for St. Louis as seen through a gateway (of sorts) in East St. Louis.
Like a grave marker, a single post remembers where Dock 3 stood on the bay.