A long conveyor (sans belt) that once carried coal up into a power plant at an abandoned steel facility in New York. This tunnel was actually several stories in the air, and ran down at about a 35 degree angle, from the top down. #abandoned #urbex #EastCoastKin #photography #industrial #NewYork
Is that the one that crosses over the NY State Thruway?
I don't believe so, no.
Is this the one that you can see south of Albany on I87?
No. Other end of the state.
So what does that mean, other end of state? Buffalo? Plattsburgh? Montauk point? NYC? Because all of those are at the end of the state relative to Albany.
It means I was asked to not share the location by people who might own it, as to keep other people from going there en masse. So, I have to be vague about it.
Cool pic…love this kind of photography.. tkd
Thanks so much! I love exploring these places and documenting them!
Sans-a-belt.
Yep. Must have been worth something to someone when it closed!
My favourite games are factory games. Seeing long conveyors like this in real life, would be pretty cool. Coal is a really bad power source though, in all aspects.
Oh, for sure. I'm still hoping that we continue in the direction of cleaner sources. Right now, it seems we're having to pause that move due to stupidity and greed, but hopefully someday we'll continue down that path.
Why shouldnt the state hire a team and dismantal this and repurpose it. I certain it still has benifits.
Because the state doesn't want to spend the money, and the property is privately owned...and I assume the owner thinks they can get top dollar for the land, and no one is buying.
Then the state should put a law in place for business that have dilapidated property to remove and recycle equipment and make it available for resale. If not fine them to get revenue for the state.
Problem is, the people that own these places have so much money that they then direct into the lawmakers pockets for re-election. That way, there is no law to force them to clean it up. Corrupt as hell.
Very cool pic!
Thank you very much!
This is what the orange moron wants to return to. The good old days!
Yeah...based on what I saw here, it's not gonna happen in this century. One can't just flip the switch and turn it on, as he seems to think.
There was one of those in the city that I grew up in.
My hometown, Cleveland, used to have a bunch of them. Only one major one left, and even that's on somewhat shaky ground.
Looks like a sinter plant. Floats the impurities out of the molten iron
Might well be. I thought about that after the fact.
Neat Shot! This one from yesterday is on the level and I swear I didn't see the "no trespassing" sign until I walked all the way around to the front 😉 I have been eyeing this abandoned garage for years but the natives can get restless around there, Sunday seemed safe. More to post, still editing -
I can smell that from here. The smell of old grease and oil seeped into old concrete wood and metal. Like my grandpap's tractor barn
Glad you liked it, here's another. "Backstage at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, Metallica met with Spinal Tap and discussed how their "black album" was a homage to Spinal Tap's Smell the Glove."😉
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Always gotta be careful of those country folk. WAAAAY worse than people in the cities, who tend to mind their own business! Pretty cool stuff in there!
This was out front, seems like they might be trying for a white trash-trash yard sale. Went by the week before and there were a couple of "gimmie" cap rusty pickup pistol in the glove compartment types looking like they were heading home soon for a few bud lights and some domestic abuse ☹️
Oh gods...yeah, you just never know!
I’d rather see solar panels and wind turbines instead of the destruction of our earth that coal produces.
Well, in a positive, there is a decent sized windfarm not more than a few hundred yards away.
I mean, how do you think they get rare-earth metals for the solar panels?
Granted, rare earth metals are harvested out of mother earth. But there are so many more uses for rare earth metals than Coal has uses for.
...right, but they would be using the same form of equipment as shown above
True.
Reminds me of an old Dirty Hairy scene where Clint Eastwood is chasing a bad guy down one of these
They are fascinating to see in person. Filthy dirty, but fascinating!
Cool shot. Where in NY?
Gotta keep the place on the downlow, but let's say it was in Western NY.
AT a coal mine this would be called a tipple. For etymological reasons that escape me.
It also might have been used to haul the slag up to a crusher for disposal. I need to do some research on this particular part of the plant and see what I can find out.
This....rather than solar and/or wind is the future of American energy!
Judging by the look of it and the wind farm less than a quarter mile away, I'd say not.
forgot, again, to use my sarcastic font, sorry.
I figured you were! Social media sometimes makes it hard to tell!
No worries. pity my poor children dealing with my rampant sarcasm.
My students deal with it every day! 😆
Business Lounge Stansted Airport is modeled like this @stansaidairport.bsky.social
Nice baggage carousel.
Hopefully a little cleaner than this! 😁
Fucking nuts
That exact thought was going through my head standing up at the top.
Cool! I took this photo from a coal conveyor belt. I opened the door for further disorientation.
I love this! Walking up and down these things are so topsy-turvy. It really messes with the brain!
It really does. There was this little house like this at King's Dominion when I was a kid (in Virginia). I couldn't get enough of it. Walk in and out and all around inside it was so trippy how everything was all Rube Goldberg
Wild how different the world is inside vs outside Or is it 🤔
Gut the place and turn it into housing for the homeless. Waste of space now.
The toxicity would kill people eventually. This place would cost untold millions to do anything of the sort with. Even demolished, the land is full of heavy metals and buried slag. A regular building in the city, I'd agree, but this...this spot is dead.
I have no doubt. Conversion of similar non toxic spaces is a really viable option. We need to explore those avenues more. This was a good opportunity to open dialogue
I don't miss working in that industry.
POTUS says it was the Golden Age.
It was...but only for a select few. The ones who made all the big money off it it. Meanwhile, the people who had to work here, while they could put food on their table and own a home, were destined for a life of health issues and a painful coughing spiral at the end of it.
Yep. It was also known as the age of the robber barrons. There were 5 depressions and 15 recessions from 1870-1913. The Federal Reserve was established in 1913 to break the vicious boom and bust cycle. Trump hates the Fed.
I'd say we are in a Second Age of the Robber Barons. And people are so numbed down that we just accept it and move on, as long as we have our social media, cheap fast food and Netflix.
Add in the rise of fascism.
Horrifically, that too.
I don't blame you.
These are used in the cement industry, which uses them for stone, coal, iron, sand syn-gyp, petroleum coke, and finally, clinker.They don't look it but are extremely dangerous.They also are made with turnaround like a mobius strip to keep the top always the top.Keeping the belt clean underneath.
It may have been for coal, or possibly for the slag that was left over from the steel making process. So much was gone from this facility that it was hard to tell.
They should ALL be abandoned 😡🖕
Hopefully someday.
Dang, well it looks like they may be wantin to fire that thing up again😖
Never happen. The rest of this place is shattered. It would take untold millions, maybe more, to ever get this place operational again. Most of it has been demolished.
I see that, and I can hear my dad's voice, clear as day, "watch your fingers." On a less personal note, this is a great photo and the start of a very cool history book. It inspires so many questions. Who worked there, who owned this, where did the coal come from....??? Thank you for posting!
I was more worried about the condition of the floors going down! But indeed, a place to be careful. Thanks for the kind words!
When the floors had coal debris on them, doubly treacherous.
Even worse when some of the floor has rusted and crumbled through. A long drop to the ground.
Looked at this image and immediately heard Walter Pidgeon intoning "Eight thousand miles of Klystron relays."
I can hear it now!
That it a cost-conscious theme park waiting to happen
The land here is way too toxic for anything to ever be built here again, sadly. It would take billions to clean it all up. Its a massive property.
Is Trump going to Re-Open it?
Highly doubt it. This place is as dead as a doornail. This used to be a massive steel mill. Owned by one of the vanished big American steel companies. Most of the massive site has been demolished over the years. This was just a remnant section.
I was joking.🙃
I had a feeling. Every now and again, one of his "fans" pops up here.
To think back on those who had to go down those unsafe cancer producing trails to make a dime. 🥲
And some still have to, sadly. They make for great photography subjects, but I wouldn't want to wish working in one on anyone.
