Peerless Cement, Detroit

 

Peerless cement was an aggregate cement manufacturing company, this was the Detroit location. Sometime in the 2010's a large portion of buildings, the smokestack and the rotating pipes were demolished for space.

It was a hot summer day, we had to walk about 8 minutes to this old cement plant, in that heat.

That's the DWSD water treatment plant, they were incinerating scum and such today, giving off a stench of trash and synthetic waste. Overall not a fun walk.

The ruins of a storage company were to the right of the rails, a graffiti-covered building made of reinforced-concrete and brick

The half-decaying but still operational St. Mary's Cement plant can also be spotted from the rail side

These silo doors are supposed to be big enough to allow trains to pass through, hence the gargantuan entrance

These tubes could be extended for filling of train cars possibly, in fact one of them was extended

Have you ever seen a ten story spiral staircase?

This is the aggregate storage shed, about four stories or more, separated into 3 huge sections. The room contained some solidified product as well, due to the many years it's sat abandoned

This room includes a large bucket crane on a gantry, allowing you to mix these various dusts together in this through these huge chutes

This tank must've been the bigger than that of one on a water tower

This is the mixing tank the chute led to in some capacity I think? Also, what an insane graffiti spot

This hopper was leaking a ton of water, creating artificial stalactites and stalagmites from the calcium in the cement 

Just the perfect place to fit in another tank. This place has tons of these criss-crossing and connecting walkways, they went everywhere too.

I ascended no further. The place was filled with pipes that were going everywhere. There were about five individual levels to this particular space.