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Blue skies and rust-pocked siding contrast the high-altitude blue sky. By the time I had worked my way back to the tram, it was sunset.

Glowing observation windows–and someone forgot to lock a patient’s door…

Because painted signs would not hold up in this spot–in between four ovens that were literally hot enough to melt steel inside. Solution: Cut the pipe labels into the sheet metal. Seems to have worked.

A buck-fifty shot for a postcard stand. Taken from the Stone Arch Bridge.

The ice reflects the blue sky on the rust. The sunset blasts through the concrete pillars holding it all up.

The control room for the whole of the plant. Sinterband here means one of the sintering lines. Temperatures, gasses, mixtures, speeds, and so on were centrally controlled here.

This sawtooth roof collapsed months later under the weight of an early snow.

Scanned after being recovered from the bottom of an old wooden box for a few years. Circa 2005. The only photo I have showing the steam locomotive out front.

An industrial cart next to an inspection point on the evaporator floor.