Ashcroft Projector

Note the tiled floor between the bucket conveyors and an old mill.

I don’t think we’re anywhere near maximum pressure anymore.

A switchboard to control the flow of electricity into the plant from the city and generators.

A failed squat at the plant. A massive electric storm (see photos) ruined this otherwise perfect flop.

Left: A medium storage chamber with access to an interconnecting steam tunnel at ceiling height. This room also has various smashed toilets. Why? Because dead toilets–all of them–always find a home in a cave. Center: Steps go past a +-intersection, left goes deeper, right goes to utility tunnels for the brewery, forward used to go to the brewery basement… it’s now backfilled. Left from the backfill is a small hallway; see ‘Backfill Self Portrait’. Center-Right: Utility tunnels tie knots between the brewery’s demolished basement and its caves. Right: Most of the storage volume is in large chambers down this causeway.

One evening I spent an hour lighting tea candles through the tunnels below the elevator. It was a magical transformation.

The first floor hallway between conference rooms and the diesel lab at the center of the facility

A morning shower made the plant’s metal siding shake… probably nothing, though, compared to when the furnaces were blasting. The objects on the ground are molten ore containers.

A better view of the belt system that drives all the machinery in the plant.