Dock Pillars

Who knew that wallpaper could stick to dirt so well?

The doorframes become more askew every year as the buildings slip downward into the gulch at different rates. This seems to be the part of the mine ruins where transients leave their marks. The graffiti dated back to the 1970s, at least.

Outside the locker room without the sandwiches and beer… plenty of glass shards, though, if you feel like it.

I made this picture to give the reader a sense of the slope between the mine buildings and the base of the concentrator. The whole area was really steep, and sometimes required scrambling to get up and down the Picayune Gulch for short distances.

On the second floor of the former casket plant, which was retrofitted with a conveyor system to coat finished products.

With the maintenance door open you can see the buckets on in the vertical conveyor.

Between elevators, a single tree has taken root. I think it’s growing out of a rail grade, so the seed might have fallen off of a train.

The Beeghley was launched in 1958… you can see it unloading limestone here with its retrofitted self-unloader. Update: This ship has been renamed the ‘James L. Oberstar’ after the Minnesota Senator. [Read more on Boardnerd.com here: http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/oberstar.htm]

Parts lockers on the top floor of the power plant.