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With its fresh paint, Lake Superior Elevator “I” almost looks contemporary, but it far outdates its neighbors, It replaced a wooden elevator by the same name in 1919.

…a better view of the huge tailings boom stretching outside of the tailings pond.

This photo illustrates how vertical the complex is.

A screened water wheel, presumably for rotating the dredge once it lowered its “foot” to pivot in place.

Like a railgun pointed at the Rockies… the boom would direct tailings–junk rock–outside of the dredge pond.

Although the floors are pretty warped, I can’t imagine one could do many tricks off of them.

The gold mine is now a gravel pit.

Through a section of the tailings boom where mountain winds tore open the sheet metal around the conveyor, I poked my head out.

The tailings boom is the first and last thing you see when approaching the mountaintop shipwreck.