Carrie Furnaces are the only remaining steel blast furnaces in Pittsburg, PA.
The furnaces were constructed back in 1881 and remained in operation until 1978. Only ruins of two furnaces:6 and 7 remain today.
The site was designated a national historic landmark in 2006.
Music used in the video is by Saito Koji.
The first track is called hope loop_01 while the second track is called hope loop_02.
This was a visit to the ruins of an abandoned clothing mill/factory in Central Pennsylvania.
The mill was constructed in 1910 as The Century Throwing Company and went bankrupt when demand for silk products went south in the United States due to the introduction of cheaper synthetic Rayon products.
The factory was purchased by two brothers in 1930 and began making dresses for ladies and girls for the next sixty or so years. In the early 1990s, the factory was shutdown when cheaper manufacturing elsewhere drove it out of business.
Abandoned Places like this, once the centers of their communities, suffer from neglect and lack of investment nowadays.
This is an attempt at preserving the past and hoping that the future will be, somehow, more glorious…
Music in this video is by un automne à Lob-Nor
The first track is called: polar elefant
The second track is called: boss A
North Philly = an abandoned neighborhood in an abandoned city…
The last train crossed the bridge back in 1991. Since then, the bridge became a local attraction and an interesting sight on RT 322.
The gallery also shows some of the predator trees on East Branch Brandywine Trail(RT 322).
centralia, pa is a ghost town in columbia county nestled between different coal mining towns. In 1962, fire had spread underneath the town through the town’s mining tunnels.
We were looking for areas where smoke was rising from the earth & ended up walking down the closed section of Pennsylvania route 61 which started to collapse in the 90s as the fire was raging underneath and causing the road to cave.
We finally take a walk around what is left of the main drag in Centralia, PA.
Unfortunately we did not find as many places with smoke coming out of the ground as we hoped. The only area with smoke rising from the ground appears at the beginning of the video.
All the music you hear in the video was written and played by Nic Bommarito.
You may recall a similar mining town, Rhyolite in NV, which disappeared years ago.
The video and pictures shown on this post were taken on the trails of Becket Quarry in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The trip starts on the trails leading to the Electrical Generator Shed(post #7) followed by Stiff Arm Derrick Site(post #8) before wandering for a while on Vista trail & Old Motion loop.
Afterwards, you will see Post #10(Motion),the hill leading to Post #12(Switch & portable compressor), posts # 13 & 14(Stiff Arm Derrick site) which overlook the quarry rim/pit. The quarry crane has been restored and may be seen against the blue skies. The camera then heads to Post #9(Railgrade to Motion) passing through the shed. Post #5 follows(two trucks even though one truck only appears on the video). The camera then pauses at Post #6(Guy Derrick Site).
Becket quarry was operational between 1860 & 1960 & was known as the Chester-Hudson Quarry. The interwebs says it had an essential role in building the town of Becket and many monuments in the country. The quarry was abandoned & the equipment left intact as if the workers went on a lunch break & never made it back afterwards.
Music credits:
Destroyalldreamers, a summer without you
Destroyalldreamers, facultatives imaginaires, en robes et en eclats
Chris Zabriskie, prelude no.14
Chris Zabriskie, prelude no.7
Fabrizio Paterlini, autumn stories – week #3
Fabrizio Paterlini, autumn stories – week #4
Fabrizio paterlini, found letters
Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles, when we were young, when we were happy
Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles, a vagrant’s moonlit waltz on remsen Avenue
