History teacher, explorer, photographer, podcaster and lover of all things odd, weird and strange! instagram.com/mr.p_explores
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26 Jul 2022
Four of my favorite spots n' shots out on the road exploring over the last year, taken on my Nikon D750.
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A massive factory once dedicated to manufacturing massive industrial plant equipment, including the famous (but sadly now defunct and dismantled) Hulett ore loaders of Cleveland, Ohio's docks. It now stands abandoned, though there is talk of some kind of reuse in the future.
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Textures, colors and reflections inside a long abandoned and since demolished Chicago, Illinois factory (summer 2021).
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A different look at an abandoned pedestrian bridge on the long-closed golf course turned state park on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan. Amazing views, nature all around, and bizarre graffiti that changes all the time. Spring 2024.
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Jun 13
A golden hour wander through Gary, Indiana's long defunct and abandoned St. Mary Mercy Hospital (birthplace of Michael Jackson!)
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Jun 13
Random internals from the abandoned and since demolished Detroit Marine Terminal in Detroit, Michigan. It was finally demolished in 2023.
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Jun 13
Places that are gone in Detroit, Michigan; Detroit Rolling Brass, Fisher Body Plant #21 (under renovation); Packard Automotive Plant, and the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Plant.
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Jun 12
The rusting and crumbling structure of a former and abandoned airplane factory in Buffalo, New York.
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Jun 12
Reflections of an industrial past long gone inside an abandoned elevator parts factory in Buffalo, New York.
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Jun 12
Locomotives and old train cars in the yard at the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania on a rather dark, stormy and rain-soaked afternoon in the summer of 2023.
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Jun 11
Gritty industrial goodness on the south shore of the Monongahela River, in the area known as the Highline, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Jun 11
A look through the Scranton Iron Furnaces in Scranton, Pennsylvania; in use from 1840 until about 1902. It was once an extensive plant operated by the Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company which by 1880 had poured 125,000 tons of pig iron.
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Jun 11
Scenes from the Hartman Rock Garden in Springfield, Ohio. Located on a quiet neighborhood street, it was started by Harry George “Ben” Hartman in 1932, continued by his wife after his death, and 2008, passed on to the Kohler Foundation to maintain for future generations.
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Jun 10
Erased from the landscape; this section of the former Warner-Swasey factory off of East 55th Street in Cleveland, Ohio was demolished this past year to make way for renovations. This factory will soon be apartments; a win, as the structure WILL be saved from being demolished.
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Views of the Cleveland Cliffs steel mill in the Cuyahoga River valley just south of downtown Cleveland, Ohio; winter of 2023.
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The outside and interior of the Cincinnati Union Terminal. This beautiful Art Deco terminal opened in 1933, saw its last Amtrak train service in 1972, but then returned in 1991. It is now a part of Cincinnati Museum Center.
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Scenes from the abandoned and since demolished Packard Automotive Company factory in Detroit, Michigan (circa summer 2022).
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The dim and silent halls of the former Northville Psychiatric Center near Detroit, Michigan, now demolished.
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One of many abandoned factories on the industrial backstreets of Detroit, Michigan. This one may have once been a foundry, but eventually turned into a storage warehouse before being abandoned completely.
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Rust Belt railyard; quiet tracks on a Sunday morning in Detroit, Michigan.
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Containers upon containers, flatbeds upon flatbeds; a huge shipping container yard just south of downtown Detroit, Michigan.
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