Only two machines sit on the rails in the roundhouse, both oil cars. It’s not clear whether there’s anything inside either, but they have to have been placed here before 1970, when the turntable outside these numbered doors was removed.
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The old truck scale sits in the middle of what was Nettleton Avenue Slip.
A ruined platform on the railyard platform side of the warehouse.
The Calumet Elevator offices used to be flanked on both sides by rails. Now, only one side has engines running on it.
A look at another “Belt-o-Vator”. I like the sign.
A burned and rusted control panel in the corner of the new hoist room.
From Main Street, looking straight up at the A Mill, only the silence makes one think that nobody’s still inside, grinding grain into Pillsbury’s Best.
The old way to get to the elevator from the mill.
2005. This is very likely the oldest image I have on the website; I took this in the early 2000s with my first camera when I was new to the hobby. I still like it quite a lot.
When the ship loaders were added, a doorway was cut through the metal silo to make a room for the grain handling equipment. Note the dust sensor in the corner of the torch-cut archway.