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dungeonguy59 — ChenoaIL_abandoned_depot
Published: 2009-08-29 02:27:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 2957; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 0
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One of those cool frame depots that sits on a diamond (ex-Alton RR and TP&W RR) that's seen far better days. Now just an inspiration for darker and more creative ideas....Related content
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at least the pic out lasted the depot! Just lost another one to the bulldozers here, too.
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GAAAH! We still have the one in town. It's now a pizza parlour
And the pic out-lasted my last DA page
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it's a sad bit of "progress". Stations tended to be something a town prided themselves on....
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Those that still have, do 
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Ach! Just read your update comment
It looked fairly sound...
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Probably would have lasted a couple of more years, maybe just irritating the local officials too much by it's presence. A shame, those old depots were usually built fairly well and are restorable given some effort.
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We've one still in use (since th' 1840's )...it's now a pizza parlour
A lot of cities are just tearing down older ( abandoned )buildings; citing safety...alas!
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Yeah, we've lost 3 RR depots here in the last few years. Two burned-down by squatters, and the one perfectly good one bulldozed one day by the owner, reasons still unknown since it's still a vacant lot. Now the one decrepit one from the 50's left with no particular architectural significance they might rebuild.
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Sad. My next trip out west I may have to "see" some ghost towns, but I've enough abandoned places round my area to "explore"
A lot of New England buildings have been added to o'er th' years...some done well, others not...
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I'm sure one could make a career just out of documenting the abandoned old mills and industrial sites of New England. At least many western ghost towns only seemed to have a short life span planned as it is, no sense building something out of anything but wood if everything revolves around how long it takes for a mine to play out.
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Some have, heh...even wi' all the demolition there's still plenty to take in.
But wi' all the dry climes of th' desert regions, those ol' wood structures hold up pretty well
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Much more fortunate for the buildings than if they were in Florida. But hard not to feel some sadness for all the effort that went into building those old mills and factories, and the 12 and 16 hr. days of all those people who worked there....now starting to resemble Roman ruins.
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I returned to W.Germany back in '79-'82 and there was a rebuilding of an ancient Roman ampitheatre outside Trier...
Some of t'e factory's innards round here were salvaged...most for fill but some of th' old chestnut and oak beams ( up to 24"x24" )were reclaimed fae other buildings
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Well, they tend to value old buildings a bit more in Europe!
The only good part, I guess....most cases you couldn't find timbers like that no matter how much money you had.
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Point taken, tho' there's not much area to build new over there. At least in Germany...
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Yes, a bit denser population wise, although I think it's been said that it's rare to be anywhere in Pennsylvania where you can't see the lights of at least one house, as heavily wooded as it is.
I was a bit surprised to see how open many parts of Scotland there was still though
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Interesting and I ken wha' ya mean. I came through Promised Land, PA. last year round mid-night...lights everywhere
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Good to know if you're marooned on the interstate in a snowstorm, I guess...lousy for photography sometimes!
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Heh, just found the pic of tha'...but it's fae another folder
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and as an update, no longer in existence, bulldozed a few months ago
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