The tailings boom is the first and last thing you see when approaching the mountaintop shipwreck.
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Here you can see the end of the scrapping phase in 2011.
The ruins of the the Hubert Mine over the ruins of Nevadaville. Its ore was taken through the town to a mill below it.
The BOMARC launch buildings are spaced on a large concrete pad that looks like a parking lot. Out of view are underground pipes for fueling and cooling the rocket motors.
A scrapped steam turbine, perhaps. In the background you can see a gutted casing for another turbine.
…out of our depth.
The turbine hall sported a beautiful Whiting gantry crane.
The pitch of the roof is more typical for areas with lots of snow—not the border of Ohio and Kentucky. So, I assume this roofline accommodated some equipment inside for trains—note the tracks.
This is the building with the water tower on top, full of Barcol stuff that did not sell at auction and not worth the trouble to scrap.
Showering red-hot coke fresh from the furnaces near the Coal Tower (in the back) was the Quenching Tower’s duty (front).