This nearly square painting shows an industrial area with buildings, storage silos, a smokestack, and railroad tracks, but no people. A mound of brown dirt or other material is in shadow in the lower left corner of the painting next to the railroad tracks that extend diagonally from the lower center of the painting into the distance to our right. The tracks end at a white building with staggered gray rooflines to our right in the middle distance. A tall terracotta colored smokestack rises beyond the white building with smoke pouring out of the top and blending into the clouds above. To the left of center and slightly closer to us is a row of ten interlocking, coral-colored silos. Our view is cut off by a row of long white and gray warehouses in the distance between the silos and smokestack. Piles of white material, perhaps in unseen bins, fill the area between the silos and the railroad tracks in the foreground. The artist signed and dated the work with brown paint in the lower right corner: “Sheeler 31.”