Abandoned: Remote World War II Industrial Hub, Everything Left Behind!

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

The Ingersoll Rand in the lift house was a compressor. It probably provided air for drilling. By the time WW2 came they used fans to force air into the shafts for ventilation. Even though the mine was a more modern mine, its still remarkable how much infrastructure has to built to operate it. The headframe would have brought the ore up and onto a conveyor belt that would have dropped it into either tram cars or rail cars. But seeing as it's on top of the mountain id say they trammed the ore down to the mill. The large metal bin you called a tram car is actually a grizzly, the ore is dumped in and what passes through the openings goes onto the next process. The ore that doesn't goes back to the crusher for another pass. The building with the aprons was the assay office. They would sample the ore and determine if the vein was a producer or not worth the cost. What a fantastic mine to explore. The car is a Buick Roadmaster you found a little bit of everything!

[@MountainWestProductions]

Appreciate the insight and sharing the knowledge! Thank you, love hearing these thoughts and sharing with a broader audience/community really brings history to life! Thank you, appreciate it! Happy to share with you👍👍👋🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@tinof5829]

Just subscribed. I like your productions. Thank you.

[@MountainWestProductions]

Thank you kindly, happy to share. hope the new years treating you well!👍👋👋

[@jameserickson8264]

Never worked in a mine, but both of my grandpa's spent their whole life in them, I have spent my whole working career in industries and have been happy for the work that air compressors have given me. I have much information that my grandfather's have shared combined with my lifetime of experience, I am happy to share what I know.

[@SharonMorin-c2w]

I love you guys. I love when Outback Jackie joins ya. Keep up the great explores!! Birmingham, ALABAMA

[@MountainWestProductions]

I love our adventures too! Happy to share, I will pass your kind words along. Appreciated, thanks!👍👋👋

[@stevepowell6896]

Nice video O B J and Jackie. The porcelain GE thing at 12:09 is a fused cut out for high voltage. I have one just like it that I got when contractors wrecked out the old railroad signal and power lines in my area. Sure a lot of interesting things to look at there. So quiet and peaceful too.

[@MountainWestProductions]

really is beautiful, thank you for the kind words. I have been keeping my eye out for an old Milwaukee line signal! Love the quality of the old stuff as well..really makes you wonder!

[@dalerolando5371]

Probably asbestos. Really enjoy Your Videos . Nice Job ! Keep it up . Dale from Eagle River Alaska

[@MountainWestProductions]

Thank you for the kind words Dale appreciate it! Working on heading out to your neck of the woods in in the future as well amazing land/history. Happy to share and have you along. Thanks👍👍👋

[@jameserickson8264]

The Gardner Denver is also a big air compressor, both it and the Ingersoll Rand were driven by electric motors with a belt and pulley system.

[@MountainWestProductions]

interesting no battery tools then I’m assuming a lot you can run off compressed air. besides the machinery aspect almost seems simpler to run compressed air in a fixed setting for tools and other applications. thanks for dropping in a sharing your knowledge! appreciate it and many other’s as well do. hope to hear from you on the next one👍👋

[@jameserickson8264]

@MountainWestProductions Also that insulating coating on the boiler tank most likely contained asbestos. They used compressed air to run the drills in the mine before all the modern equipment came along. That location was beautiful, I am glad I stumbled onto yor channel

[@MountainWestProductions]

@@jameserickson8264 well thank you kindly, much appreciated. Glad to have you along. Please continue to share your knowledge with everyone and myself makes the channel even better. Makes sense, good stuff to know! Thank you!

[@HM2SGT]

19:33 Just think; somebody hung those up and it was the last time. I wonder if they knew it was the last time, if they knew that nobody would ever take them down and use them again? one day, long in the afternoon toward evening they switched off the light for the last time. Drove home from work for the last time. Kind of sad.

[@MountainWestProductions]

Funny enough to mention we actually inadvertently recovered a picture that shows the exact time and date the shutdown transpired! It was written on the wall. Outback Jackie was doing some edits of her stills and spotted it in the background. I will post it to our community section soon. It is always a moment of wanderlust seeing these sites and thinking the same..Thank you for dropping in and happy to share the adventure with you!👍👋

[@deano5111]

Somebody probably already commented on this but anything Ingersoll Rand is generally a compressor and the tank outside is definitely an air tank for the compressed air That's how they round the tools to dig the holes to put in the blasting things whether it be dynamite or powder depending on the years

[@MountainWestProductions]

fascinating stuff, really is a rabbit hole to visit all these sites. interesting that a lot of our early explores are almost all connected to a mine. Sharing it and learning from simply being around history and the channel members is really cool! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience, interesting as well that powder was used..I have kind of overlooked that and really only considered dynamite. The big tank on the mountain area really stumped me and had yet to get an answer until now! Thank you👍

[@charlesglandon7840]

Another nice video, that car looks to be maybe a 40 ish Pontiac or DeSoto (before my time) I'm 75. Thanks for recording these sites for the future the sites won't last too much longer. Just think in another 80 years or so some of our industries as we know them may look like these. Lots of hard working people once lived there, kind of eerie to walk around nice to have a companion there with you.

[@MountainWestProductions]

really cool, old DeSoto or Pontiac…Detroit muscle and quality.. Thank you Charles, we both always look forward to hearing from you! I knew you would have an idea. It is eerie, but in a good way. Draws a lot of conclusions and thoughts about today. Always a pleasure hearing from you and sharing the great American experiment. Hope todays treating you well and until next time friend👋🤠

[@charlesglandon7840]

@@MountainWestProductions I looked up the picture of the car again 1950 Buick....

[@MountainWestProductions]

1950 Buick…very interesting wonder how it got trashed out there. even wilder country back then..thank you Charles!

[@normbograham]

WW2 seems like it was so long ago, but I was adopted by a WW2 vet, whom lost two brothers in WW2, 1943, 1944. Meaning, my two uncles I never met, died in WW2. So, I know people, whom knew people. Three brothers from NC, died in three different countries.

[@MountainWestProductions]

That’s some history, it really wasn’t long ago maybe a generation at the most. Some really cool things transpired in the period shortly after and even before! thank you for sharing 👋

[@jameserickson8264]

The Ingersoll Rand is a air compressor.

[@001jacksun65]

Nothing there is steam operated. Those are air compressors The large tank was for compressed air. This place used a lot of electricity lots of old large electric motors. I wonder where the electricity came from

[@MountainWestProductions]

Interesting I wonder as well. The boilers there I thought generated some sort of motor function and electricity then powered compressors? That’s a good observation I was over looking somehow makes way more sense however! Thank you.

[@secretdaisy6484]

I don’t know anything about mining but I wonder about how the dirt road to the first site looks recently used. Also, I didn’t see any broken glass bit it all seems to be missing from all of the windows 🪟. Was it salvaged? And that brown porcelain ‘conductor’ at the second place is I believe an insulator. Maybe others know about this place and come up to camp 🏕️🌲🥾from time to time. Kewl video. Thanks. 👍☮️🌞

[@Outbackjackie]

Another amazing day! What a place!

[@MountainWestProductions]

Well thank you, was a great explore happy to share! hope to see you on the trail next time around.

[@sirkyoj1]

Nice shot of the stack! I was born and raised in Butte. You have a lot of stuff you can explore in that area.

[@MountainWestProductions]

yer sir! Thank you kindly and glad to hear it. Many more days to share! beautiful country and history abound!👋👍

[@genepatterson4375]

I hope you did not leave the old pocket watch behind. That is a cool artifact of a bygone era. Clean it up and it still may run.

[@MountainWestProductions]

Great minds think alike, Thank you👋👍👍

[@OGRocker1]

Nice surviving infrastructure, great aerials OBJ... Overall, an awesome share ... Thanks Jack and Jackie. ... Take care, stay safe, cool and free!!! Till the next. ⛏⚒⛏ Howdy from southern Oregon, best wishes to Y'all Edit; the only thing I would love to see, is if you enlarge the written narrative. Kind of hard for us old farts to see. 😉😆😄👍👊

[@MountainWestProductions]

was a great site here fun hike as well, hope alls well and thanks for tuning in as always OG, happy Sunday. I’ll work on the text as well thanks for the feedback 🤠👋

[@j.m.8290]

At 43:59 it really looks like the switch is lit up in front of the giant winch .. I'm sure the light from outside must have just been hitting that spot or something 🤔

[@MountainWestProductions]

That’s crazy I didn’t notice! 👍👍❤️

[@j.m.8290]

@MountainWestProductions thank you for the videos, I'd sure like to find more places to explore around my area, unfortunately the people who know don't ever tell so there's a lot of trying to find and not so much exploring lol

[@Oddlyhistorical2160]

Nice aerials!

[@MountainWestProductions]

Thank you kindly, was a great day out and happy to share while having you join us! Always a treat stumbling upon more than the history books tell us!

[@DallamOliverLee]

Ingersoll-Rand Imperial Type 10 is a steam-driven air compressor built in the 1910's. Look like it was connected to that AC motor between it nd the wenches to generate electricity.

[@MountainWestProductions]

awesome, see I thought steam but wasn’t sure. The machinery was pretty large. The outer casing and tank made me think it was combustion or fuel driven. Interesting, the site down the road was also steam operated. pretty cool stuff. thank you 👍👋

[@terrystewart2070]

And the big tank outside was a large compressed air tank.

[@vttrucker]

That is an air compressor. It wasn't generating electricity. It was powered by the electric motor to supply the mine with compressed air via that big air tank outside. Air was used to power the drills and muckers.

[@davemoore7488]

Aren't the tailings usually waste rock? Where would they have dumped the valuable ore to be taken to a mill? It would be nice if someone could stabilize this great structure!

[@MountainWestProductions]

Tailings are mostly waste rock, I’m assuming they had larger rough ore and what we are seeing is basically spill or low grade that did not get “tram priority” just a theory but would explain why it’s so fine and why no large deposits were on site. The structure is beautiful isn’t it? It really is a love hate thing going to these sites and seeing what is left behind… Beats a cookie cutter house by a million, the wood and weight dispersion along with engineering is really something. love it, thanks for dropping in and see you on the next one👍

[@seano2178]

Old car looks like a Buick Roadmaster

[@MountainWestProductions]

I think it was a Buick, Charles mentioned a possible match on a 1950 Buick going through some pictures online. it’s really interesting and intriguing to imagine the story behind that car. Montana is relatively remote today but 1950’s it was basically northern Alaska.. It does look like a road master in comparison! should of looked for a VIN!!

[@seano2178]

@@MountainWestProductions If only the walls or car of the day could talk. The stories that would be told.

[@jameserickson8264]

I, along with my grandpa's ar happy to share our lifetime of accumulated knowledge to the next generation

[@MountainWestProductions]

really like hearing this. I’m a plumber by trade and understand working with your hands and surrounding yourself self with knowledgeable gentleman really separates you from competition. I have had several blessings and opportunities in the field due to others similar to yourself passing down knowledge. It’s a shame when I see new hands come on and other journeyman don’t share the same mentality. Hard works hard and dedication is great if they got it give it to them is my mentality as well. happy to have crossed paths hope your day is well. 👍👋

[@davidmackieson4609]

THE OLD DIESEL ACTUALLY LOOKED COMPLETE BE A GOOD WILL IT START VID LOL

[@Jacques-l1x]

That Garner Denver is a air compressor not a steam engine.

[@coolhanddruid]

38:22 asbestos.

[@MountainWestProductions]

interesting, I didn’t know It was that porous, I know it’s toxic however might be the first time I’ve come across it so blatantly. good to know thank you👍

[@coolhanddruid]

@@MountainWestProductions You're welcome. That would have been basically an asbestos mortar they coated that boiler with.

[@Jakmak1480]

​@@MountainWestProductionsAre you in Absaroka Bear Tooth Wilderness?

[@MountainWestProductions]

No over homestake, Absoroka bear tooth is beautiful however and has a great amount of history..My time has been limited in that mountain range, but am planning to take a few shoots there next season on tail end of this season.

[@justinvickery446]

There's a lot of stuff there from the 70s by the looks of it an Ingersoll Rand was an air compressor not an engine

[@MountainWestProductions]

there is! I was suprised how intricate and sturdy everything was even after being left for abandon. Was a great explore and happy to share! thank you! 👍

[@davidmackieson4609]

THATS AN OLD 2 CYLINDER DIESEL IN THE WINCH HOUSE AN TANK FOR WAS OUTSIDE WELL WHAT YOU THOUGHT WAS LPG

[@MatthewSmith-zi8nc]

Definitely asbestos on that boiler

[@MountainWestProductions]

nasty stuff, thankful actually it isn’t to much or a issue things like that spark remediation. first encounter with the stuff so openly I believe as well. Thanks for tuning in a sharing some knowledge! Hope to hear from ya soon👍

[@MatthewSmith-zi8nc]

@@MountainWestProductions I am a asbestos abatement project supervisor. Happen to be removing an old boiler at this moment. Asbestos is most dangerous when it becomes friable. IE disturbed and airborne. There is also a 25-30 year latency period for health concern. Fibers get lodged deep in lungs and have a barbed end that digs in and body builds scar tissue around it. More fibers more scarring less air function of lungs. Dangerous yes but not a concern if aware of danger.

[@Jacques-l1x]

The car looks like a looks like a Buick

[@JerryRussell-cv6ng]

Corrugated tin looks Brand New

[@MountainWestProductions]

it does have a shine to it doesn’t it, strange however because the framing behind is collapsing and looks to be original!

[@001jacksun65]

It's Aluminum not tin

[@Jacques-l1x]

That so called tram bucket is the mine shaft car , your tram car's are not real big they are generally the same size as your mine car's.

[@mikehendershot6397]

It was Steam and Electric powered

[@vttrucker]

Those aren't conductor's. They're insulators

[@MountainWestProductions]

@@vttrucker Thank you! Appreciate the knowledge and insight. The viewers as well!👍

[@vttrucker]

@@MountainWestProductions I like watching videos like this as I cannot physically do this anymore. Thank you.

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

NoCal or PNW?

[@MountainWestProductions]

Northwest

[@ikefrye847]

😅 danger close, your cover… tell me you were enlisted without telling me you were enlisted This whole thing is like I'm playing fallout. Looks like exploring Far Harbor

[@MountainWestProductions]

haha glad to provide the experience, thanks for watching buddy! hope to see you on the next explore!🤠

[@Jakmak1480]

You mean ground hog? A chipmunk is about 2 1/2 to 3 inches long

[@MountainWestProductions]

It could have been but Im certain I saw the black and white stripe. Maybe not thought it was👍🤠

[@vttrucker]

Definitely groundhog. Or possibly a moose

[@MountainWestProductions]

@vttrucker a moose this thing wasn’t that big. It could have been a ground hog. I think it was a big ol chipmunk 🐿️ I really do.

[@vttrucker]

@@MountainWestProductions I was joking about the moose. And it is definitely a ground hog

[@MountainWestProductions]

We might have to revisit this footage and conduct an investigative take. Many people are wondering about the elusive creature I said with a chunky chipmunk. Ground hog, gopher nobody thought marmot yet could have been a this year too?

[@RyanMurray-dr4rw]

She's cute..just sayn

[@mikehendershot6397]

I think it's a BUICK

[@MountainWestProductions]

I think so many have mentioned it being a close match to a Buick roadmaster, next one I find I’ll have to see if there’s a visual on identification. Thanks for watching, working on the next adventure shortly! hope to hear from you soon!