Kansas is known for tornados. Think ‘Wizard of Oz’. That, considered with the fact that the workers were surrounded by bombs and bomb making materials called for lots of earthen shelters, just in case.
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One of my favorite visual feature of grain elevators, especially big ones, is how they repeat.
The two exhaust vents coming out from the boilers en route to the stacks. Plywood marks where where catwalks were removed to extract equipment.
Every timber pillar was numbered for maintenance purposes.
West Elevation of the Depot. Ektar 100/Mamiya 6
Rows of offices under the power plant, which was in the middle of being demolished during my adventure. Despite the snow, this was meant as an interior.
“Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and historian.
The turbine hall sported a beautiful Whiting gantry crane.
A long exposure under the trestle-like approach to the dock, under which trains still pass regularly.
Funny how sensitive modern English speakers have become to gendered language. I doubt the workers here–almost all female–were offended by this posting for ‘Workmen’s Compensation’.