I’m not sure, actually, whether this was an outhouse (right), but it seems likely. In any case, it was connected by a covered staircase to the Bunk House (left). The soil here was not all tailings, so there is a bit of thick grass–almost the only in sight!
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Ducking the steam lines overhead between the mixers and compressors, a water tower says “good morning,” right past the slack power lines. This is the sleepy uptown of the war city.
A stencil instructs the first and third shifts to ask security for access. Security was out during all my visits, except one mishap where a strung-out local chased me with a truck. Having spent a decade exploring the U.P., I was not caught off guard.
Vents in the boards over the windows helps prevent mold and animals from getting too crazy inside.
This elevator was built in 1922 and was used until the passing rails were removed in the mid-1970s.
Through a section of the tailings boom where mountain winds tore open the sheet metal around the conveyor, I poked my head out.
Looking across the mountain tramway from an abandoned house in Gilman.
You can almost make out the concrete chute through the open window. Kodak Portra 160/Mamiya 6.
For reasons unknown, this building’s concrete was designed a little thinly. It reminds me of a Chicago, IL building constructed during WWI when concrete and steel were strictly rationed and many buildings went up with insufficient superstructures. I do not have a build date for this one yet.
Wind took the spring melt on the trees growing in taconite pellets and made it airborne. Loading chutes in the background.