Abandoned/derelict sites

[Rattler]

We were just in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for a fall color tour. We found lots of material for this thread! I will post some up as soon as I finish processing them. The UP is loaded with old mining relics and abandonments. This is the Calumet & Hecla mine dredge used to reclaim tailings when they discovered a process that could extract more copper out of them. It is almost landmark up there.

 

[graynomad]

Another out of service location - Arizona

Ha ha, not really that funny though eh?

Some fantastic colours in the dredge and surrounds, I'd crop it down to a pano, get rid of 90% of the foreground and sky I reckon.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

NWoods, that's friggin hysterical!!

 

[WininUtah]

Ha, the GC Lodge. Very sad!!

These are from Stateline, Ut, a pretty interesting site.

 

[the kid]

this old barn has sense fallen down, i was so disappointed this summer when i went down to crater lake and took a side detour to see this old barn and homestead, and get some good pics with my new camera... so i guess you guys are gonna have to live with the old pics generic pics...

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this is a cabin my best friends great uncle build. it still stands today and i try to get out to see it every couple of years, these pics were taken on the last trip that my best friends grandpa made out there with us. we had a great time all be it too short of a time, but we at least got pics of 4 generations of his family at the cabin and grandpa had a wonderful time. -you can see him just above my cargo box. sadly people have come in and vandalized it, shot it up, taken chain saws to the table,bench and chairs he made(probably used it for fire wood). and even hooked onto the cabin with their 4x4s and tried to pull it over, but it still stands. one year we went in there and ran some cables on turn-buckles and hurricane straps to help support it, amazingly they are still there, and im sure they have helped with the surviving huge snow drifts in the winter.

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[graynomad]

Nice shots and interesting buildings etc. Normally I think B&W is better for this sort of subject but I think in these cases (especially the vehicles) colour is better.

That barn in #2 is massive, sad to see all that work falling down.

 

[nwoods]

Wow that old car is awesome. The headlights are intact!

 

[the kid]

Nice shots and interesting buildings etc. Normally I think B&W is better for this sort of subject but I think in these cases (especially the vehicles) colour is better.

That barn in #2 is massive, sad to see all that work falling down.

yeah i think the color pics tunred out great, i converted them to B&W just to see what they were like, but ehh the colors are so vibrant and all over the place that i think they work better than the B&W. and ironically that barn in #2 is still mostly standing as it is in the pic, it was everything else that has fallen down, the house i think is still mostly standing but it was in much worse shape.

 

[the kid]

i really wait to go to bodie again sometime, now that i have a DSLR, i was there back in highschool with just a point and shoot 35mm, its on the bucket list, along with camping out around mono lake with the wife and the runner with a RTT...

does anyone know of any ghost towns in oregon or washington?

 

[Rattler]

i really wait to go to bodie again sometime, now that i have a DSLR, i was there back in highschool with just a point and shoot 35mm, its on the bucket list, along with camping out around mono lake with the wife and the runner with a RTT...

does anyone know of any ghost towns in oregon or washington?

I believe Brian is on ExPo some. His site has a lot of neat stuff for the PNW.

http://www.brian894x4.com/INSEARCHOFHISTORY.html

 

[Rattler]

A few from our short UP color tour.

We took a chunk of Old US41 and came across this old abandoned farm.


There were a bunch of old cars lining the roadside of it.

A little further down the road there was another abandoned house.


We drove around by an old mine that is on the side of a cliff. To get out to the front of the cliffs we had to drive on some tailing piles. I spotted a part of one of the old mine structures.


The mine's cemetery was nearby so we took a stroll to that. These headstones are made out of wood. I wish my flash hadn't have gone off.

An old powerhouse for one of the mines.

 

[Rattler]

This was once a stamping mill for one of the many mines in the UP.


There was some kind of mine structure overhead at one time on the trail we took not far from the stamping mill.

One of several old abandoned houses in Michigamme.


Although not abandoned but quite unique. This was the house that Ephriam Shay built. Eph was the inventor the Shay locomotive used heavily by the lumber and mining industries.

 

[graynomad]

Great shots of interesting places. And the colours are amazing, in most of Oz there are no seasons like that, things look pretty much the same all year round.

 

[the kid]

in the city of Ur, Abraham's house...

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some of the catacombs around Ur...

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the Ziggurat

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from on top of the Ziggurat

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[96Delica]

It amazes me how quickly things will go to ruin once people stop trying to keep nature at bay.