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^ What a strange store!

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mindwaave wrote:^ What a strange store!

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People's monitors are larger these days. I'm gonna post with the smallest Large size (1024) from now on.
That is a really interesting space. The photo has a certain serene beauty to it as well.
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Glad you like the shot, there's always something new to see at Cementland! If I recall, Sublunar has a cool shot of standing-water from a visit to Mechanical City...

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Hoist operator's station at the Jim Crow Mine in western New Mexico
I see your fancy electric powered mine hoist and raise you an ancient Model A powered mine hoist:

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I don't get these hoists with small gas engines. The Model A only produced 4.4 psi of compression. How is that going to hold back anything?

Then there's the RIDING LAWN MOWER on top of the elevator shaft at Lever. What?! How?
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You got me.

This here is a Wellman-Seaver-Morgan double-drum steam hoist which was powered by a 250 hp Babcock & Wilson boiler.

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Those old hoists make me moist.

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Indeed. Imagine going 1,000 feet down in one of these.

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Cooling facility of a nitroguanidine production plant. Last used around the Vietnam war.
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Headframe and surface equipment for that hoist I posted
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SubLunar has some cool pics in this thread.
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