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I'm no longer sure but I think this was part of the Fairbanks Exploration Company's complex on Illinois Street.
The photo is probably from 1985 and the building perhaps is no longer there. If so, too bad.
Friday Flashback.
Tri-X 400, Minolta SRT.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985. Illinois Street supply yard.
The USSRM provided equipment to the Fairbanks Exploration Company (F.E. Co) in support of gold mining operations outside of Fairbanks in the middle part of the last century.
www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmarks/113...
Friday Flashback.
Tri-X 400, Minolta SRT.
Alabama Street, San Francisco, California, USA
My father, Walter Johnson, twenty years old, far right ...
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Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Illinois Street supply yard.
Here in Eugene, Oregon lie the remnants of a once mighty train company Southern Pacific which was bought out by the Union Pacific. The remains of a roundhouse, machine shop, and evidence of support buildings not to mention an intact turntable. Driving by one day by I noticed a u-shaped frame standing tall and had to investigate finding an intact turntable and empty yard.
This old building is across the street from the gigantic mill ruins in Kirkville, Montana. I suspect it was a machine shop, or it had some other mining function. This ghost town had a population of 125 once, and in 1908 the name was changed to Clark, but Kirkville seems to be the name that has stuck.
Randy, a volunteer for the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, makes welds in bolt holes below the coupler housing where a plate will hold the coupler's draft gear and the coupler itself. This was taken at the Friend's Car Restoration Facility in Antonito, Colorado, on June 28, 2019.
Catching up with 2018...though there is no time remaining on the meter...2019 arrived as predicted...I did not.
Almost There.
Before Christmas 2018 I had the opportunity to take some photos of a shop (not mine)...the culmination of years of orderly accumulation...everything repurposed..even if there is no purpose. This is my visit.
These were taken with a tripod.
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Walter C Snyder
W.A. Young Machine Shop and Foundry
Rices Landing, PA
This shop was built in 1900. It was closed in 1969 and left the way it was on its last day of operation with machinery and tools dating as far back as 1870.
The shop is beside the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania. It specialized in repairing barges, tug boats, and other river vessels and making replacement parts.
Even the tiny metal shavings or filings remain on the tools.
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See more images like this in my Y.A. Young Machine Shop album:
www.flickr.com/photos/cj_proartz/albums/72157654848957191...
The Abandoned Moffett Mill
Lincoln, RI
January 30, 2021
"Constructed in 1812 by local mechanic George Olney, the Moffett Mill offers a rare glimpse of the early American machine shop. The Moffett Mill was among the first mills in the area to have new metal-working technology including a metal lathe and drill press. In the early 1800s, Olney made tools and repaired vital machine parts for the other mills along Great Road, including his own thread mill at the pond in Lincoln Woods, Stephen Smith’s Butterfly Mill, and Captain Wilbur Kelly’s mill at Old Ashton. Arnold Moffett purchased the mill in 1850, replacing the breast-style waterwheel with a more modern, water-driven iron turbine. He expanded into furniture making and wagon building. At the time of the Civil War, the mill’s second floor housed braiding machines used to produce laces for shoes and corsets. By 1880, gristmill orders accounted for a large share of the Moffetts’ business, and a sawmill produced boards and wooden boxes for customers in the area. By the turn of the century, the mill closed and the building abandoned. In 2000, the Moffett Mill was stabilized and restored, with the original equipment still intact. Today, the mill is open for occasional public viewing under the stewardship of the Friends of Hearthside."
Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Illinois Street supply yard.
The abandoned Moffett Mill
Lincoln, RI
January 30, 2021
"Constructed in 1812 by local mechanic George Olney, the Moffett Mill offers a rare glimpse of the early American machine shop. The Moffett Mill was among the first mills in the area to have new metal-working technology including a metal lathe and drill press. In the early 1800s, Olney made tools and repaired vital machine parts for the other mills along Great Road, including his own thread mill at the pond in Lincoln Woods, Stephen Smith’s Butterfly Mill, and Captain Wilbur Kelly’s mill at Old Ashton. Arnold Moffett purchased the mill in 1850, replacing the breast-style waterwheel with a more modern, water-driven iron turbine. He expanded into furniture making and wagon building. At the time of the Civil War, the mill’s second floor housed braiding machines used to produce laces for shoes and corsets. By 1880, gristmill orders accounted for a large share of the Moffetts’ business, and a sawmill produced boards and wooden boxes for customers in the area. By the turn of the century, the mill closed and the building abandoned. In 2000, the Moffett Mill was stabilized and restored, with the original equipment still intact. Today, the mill is open for occasional public viewing under the stewardship of the Friends of Hearthside."
Today's been a long day, filled with a sense of uncertainty of where our world is headed and what it will mean for all of us. But it was also a beautiful day where I was happily reminded that regardless of who's in charge and whatever they may do, our world will keep giving us an endless stream of moments like this one. Photo of today's sunset over the old and new harbour and shipyard district of Malmö, taken from the roof of @mincmalmo.