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David Aho pictured.

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.

This is what the mine shops look like from the road between Gaastra, MI and Rogers Location (formerly Bates, MI). The community was renamed for the mine, probably under the heavy influence of M.A. Hanna.

“This way,” then, “No, that way!”

The old crane swung on windier days over the Worthington Steam Pump. This is probably last used to disassemble the antique generators, which are all now gone.

A little cloud passes over the Five-Stack powerplant ruins, like a puff of smoke.

An old nurse’s station (you can tell because of the half-door with table) with torn-up tiles. Notice through the curved doorway that even the ceiling has a curvature.

ADM overshadows the Meal Elevator. The cleared area behind is now home to Surley Brewery.

Unintentional art comes in the form of a beet juice slurry baffle.