Through a section of the tailings boom where mountain winds tore open the sheet metal around the conveyor, I poked my head out.
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Those able to work would be compelled to help fix up the facility, grow, harvest, and prepare food for fellow ‘inmates’, or work on vocational skills.
Call me angsty, but I like it. Found in the Auxiliary Hospital.
Though it’s a little unclear what control station controlled what function, these levers seemed to relate to some of the bigger equipment inside the dredge, such as the trommel.
A bank of vertical filing cabinets, probably dating to National Guard days.
This is an elevator to move mine car loads of sand to the surface for cleaning and eventually glass production. Below is a flooded equipment vault. In front and behind is a loop through the larger tunnels in the mine. The horizontal braces supported electric cables for the mine carts.
Exploring Dock 4 was a very different experience, since it was almost all metal.
Wind blew taconite dust against the walls of these suspended control room, making even the glass appear to rust.
The factory was utterly vertical.