Topic: The Abandoned Thread

[Bob Wessner]

Last weekend in WA

Any chance they are protected and fenced waiting for restoration funds? 

[flybox1]

Last weekend in WA

Where is this?

#202 -  Somewhere near Snoqualmie .

Love this place man!
Unfortunately they, and many others like them are just sitting there and have been like that for years.  There are a lot of old engines out there at the museum.  Landmarks.  A few of them ARE in service....
I usually take my family out there 2x a year to see the old engines. once for a walk around, and another time right before X-mas to ride the "Santa Train".  a fun array of old cars from many different eras all strung together. rickety, cold, that old machine smell.  Good cookies and hot chocolate too....my boys love it as much as i do.  Nice pics Seaweb!

heres the link to the museum/trainrides.  its good family stuff!
http://www.trainmuseum.org/SantaTrain.asp

[Bob Wessner]

I do like those old trains. I grew up on Long Island. Back in the fifties (yeah, that old  ) even though the Long Island RR was electrified, they still ran an old steam engine pulling freight. It wasn't long before that changed to diesel. Back then the tracks were at ground level in Merrick. We even had an old wooden train depot with a wood burning, potbellied stove. Sadly it all changed by the time I left in the mid-sixties. The tracks were elevated and the station demolished and replaced.  I use to skip Sunday school and go down to the tracks to put pennies on the rails. 

[Elan]

Just south of boston, theres an island called peddocks island. Its the best abandoned place ive ever seen. Theres a ferry that takes campers there during the summer, and is a short kayak from hull (they even rent kayaks). It was a military town in the 40's. Hospital, church, firestation, and woods with about two dozen houses and buildings. not really any artifacts left behind, and lots of poison ivy so be careful, but its a fun day if you pack some food and walk the old streets. I grew up in hull and can give details.

[Retro Rocket]

You all would love this thread:

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=148441&highlight=weirdest+things+found+in+the+woods

Some freaky #$%* in that thread.... and i only read the first couple of pages....

Mick

[ZoomyZen]

You all would love this thread:

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=148441&highlight=weirdest+things+found+in+the+woods

Some freaky #$%* in that thread.... and i only read the first couple of pages....

Mick

Wait until you get to the story about the Zulu native salt pond in Nevada.....   Holy.  Crap.

[Old75_ratafe]

My bike at the closed Checker Motor plant, Kalamazoo MI.  Checker was the company that made those old school taxi's like you'd see in the movie Taxi Driver or the tv show Taxi.

Huh never knew they were made there.

[Bluegreen]

This thread is amazing!

[ZoomyZen]

You all would love this thread:

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=148441&highlight=weirdest+things+found+in+the+woods

Some freaky #$%* in that thread.... and i only read the first couple of pages....

Mick

Wait until you get to the story about the Zulu native salt pond in Nevada.....   Holy.  Crap.

What is great is most of those stories are all from the region in which I live!  Take the Luckiamutte River story on page three... I live about 5 minutes from the launch you use to to get there, I have been through that section more times than I can count (coming from both directions for that matter) but I have never run into any pirates!!! hahah!!!

[Grnrngr]

heh...the guy who started the website graduated 6 mos ahead of me at the same school....

[scottly]

The Humboldt smelter, in AZ, about a 1/4 mile from where I live..
The stack is about 300 feet high. The smudge near the landing, mid way up, is painted-over graffiti. (It blew my mind that someone climbed that rusty ladder to tag, not to mention the fact that someone climbed it again to blot it out. )
This pic was taken 10 years ago, and since then, a chunk of the rim of the stack has broken off. 

[seanbarney41]

Awsome pic, ever been inside?

[Hush]

About time that stack got dynamited.

[seaweb11]

I was thinking you could just back up to it and nudge it with a 4 x 4 

Not me mind you, but I will bring the beer.

[Elan]

Heres a pic of the "main st." on peddocks island. Its the coolest abandoned place ive seen. THeres even a church, a hospital, etc. it was a whole little town, forgotten about since the 40's.

[sangyo soichiro]

Images removed as inappropriate.

[seanbarney41]

sick a$$ imagery...thank you

[Alan F.]

sick a$$ imagery...thank you

 

[seanbarney41]

sick a$$ imagery...thank you

 

not sure what happened here, I was just thanking and appreciating all the cool photos here.

[BobbyR]

I would like to see more of that island.

[srook]

The Motorcycle Graveyard

71 Gooding Street, Lockport, NY 14094


This was the leftover stock of Walter Kohl who owned a BSA and Yamaha dealership in Lockport, NY.  He took many bikes in on trade and often left them outside in the back of his dealership during the 1960s and 1970s.  I actually went to his storefront in 1994 because he was listed in the yellow pages as a British Bike Shop and I wanted to buy a Triumph Bonneville.  I called and he said to come on down.  I rode my 1976 CB750 to his shop and entered.  I found the place packed with motorcycles, mostly Jap bikes from the 1970s.  An old man (Walter Kohl) was sitting on a stool with no shirt on surrounded by bikes and parts.  A younger man came out from the back when he heard me talking and told me they were no longer in business.  They were very surprised that anyone had shown up and they wanted me out.  The old man must have answered the phone and thought it was 1975 or something.  Anyways I had always wondered what happened to the bikes and parts that were in that storefront.  I found out this September when some photos showed up online.  They were moved into an old warehouse in Lockport and sold sometime in the late 1990s.  The building fell apart and the new owner couldn't pay to have it fixed.  It sat essentially abandoned for years.












I had planned to head up there this coming summer with a video camera to document the whole thing but I guess the place has been cleaned out this November and all the bikes have been sold.  There is someone on ebay (itsa60) who is selling stuff that he says came from this place.  The building is still there and I may head up their anyway to see what is left.

These guys actually got in touch with the current owner this past fall and bought a bunch of stuff from this place before it was sold off in buckets.

http://dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

More pics from the person that originally posted this place on the web in 2008.

http://newboards.tusclan.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=301

Scott

[seanbarney41]

...SPECTACULAR!...

[Elan]

OH MY THATS MY DREAM COMETRUEEEE!!!!

[mick750F]

   Great story and pics...I'd guess though that a majority of what was there ended up being sold for scrap...or less...and that sux.

Mike

[scottly]

Awsome pic, ever been inside?

The closest I got was to climb a rusty staircase, that I feared was going to fall at any second, and peer into the opening in the front of the building. That was 17 years ago, and it was scary then..

There were at least 2 other smelters near there that were dynamited back in the '50s; why they left this one standing is a mystery. Perhaps it was new enough then that there was a chance of firing it back up?

The gray on the ground in the fore-ground of the pic is a thick layer of ash, that covers acres, containing high levels of arsenic and lead. This is now an EPA Super-fund site. A few years ago, the current property owner claimed that vibrations from heavy equipment might cause the structure to collapse, so efforts so far have been to stabilize the soil and prevent the winds from spreading the contaminates further.