The boat trips along the industrial Calumet River went past a lot of things that, to return to a phrase I use a lot, If You Knew, You Knew. This is one of them. And I do not know. I have a vague idea, which is that it either loads or unloads… something. I guess you can’t load without also unloading, so there’s that. Just the fact that there are… four? cabins says this isn’t easy to use. Along with its whole design. The far end, at the lower left here, has a pretty narrow hopper, so that must be used to fill trucks, or railroad cars. And the big end way up there must somehow be able to reach down to stuff that’s on the freight boats coming along the river.

I have no idea.

August 29, 2010. Nikon D90 (DX sensor), 70–300mm Nikon zoom lens at 70mm (35mm equivalent: 105mm), f/10, 1/1,250, ISO 640.