Asbestos rope isn’t something you can buy at Home Depot anymore, but it’s fire and heat resistant stuff; great for industrial work, like in a sugar mill.
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Looking from the powerhouse across to the old Electrical Assembly side of the plant that manufactured products like thermostats. Most of the complex is connected by skyway and tunnel systems.
No ambiguity here… miners, check in at this office.
You can see why so few products had bright packaging. If the can here was brown, you’d never see it in a dark wood cabinet.
Canal Park (see bridge) and some of old downtown, formerly Duluth City Hall and Police Department (center-left). At least one star has appeared in the sky…
Rubber dock boots still sits under the desk in the dock office, near keys to rusted locks and files of fired employees.
A 8-foot-tall volume indicator that could be read from across the beet boiler floor–convenient when the controls are 20 feet away.
The left wall is stacked high with wooden crates holding spools. Tags hang on machines describing the last batch of silk the mill ever produced.
S&X seen in the background through the fog.
Power-up to cool down… would have been nice on the hot day I climbed on top of this machine.