Bikes

Because of the dangers of storing the materials to make explosives as well as the explosives themselves, there were earthen bunkers all across the plant like this.

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

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

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

Don’t you love the shape of the house on the right?

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

The bottom of the tailings boom is rotten. In days when the dredge, floated, gangways connected it to shore, it seemed. You can see the size of the pontoons under the boat here.

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