Things Abandoned

NOTE: You may have arrived here from one of my other model railroading websites. This is not an accident; I've consolidated reference information here so that I'm not maintaining multiple resources with the same information across multiple sites.

Not all of these are railroad-related, but if you share my curious attraction to things abandoned, they're all worthwhile.

• Abandoned but Not Forgotten — treasure trove of images and information
• Abandoned Railroad Bridge Photos — Brian McCamish is a 4X4 nut with a penchant for photographing railroad artifacts
• Abandoned Rails — The beginnings of a nationwide database of former railroads
• Abandoned Stations — A great starting point for highly detailed looks at stations of the greater New York area
• Abandoned Train Tunnels — One of many related categories at Waymarking.com
• Battleship Island — Japan's rotting metropolis
• Chernobyl Exclusion Zone — the granddaddy of all abandoned places
• Chuck's Photo Spot — A great starting point for endless exploration possibilities; however, beware the many abandoned and decaying web pages as well
• Daily Photography by Kendall Anderson — "Abandonments. Decay. Industrial mayhem."
• Dark Passages — "A New York-based organization providing blind archeologists with the finest quality flashlights."
• Frank's Place
• Ghost Railways — Part of Tom's Railroad Pictures.
• The Lackawanna Cutoff — researched by the Garden State Model Railway Club
• Lost Rail — "The Cold Wind of What Was Left Behind"
• Matthias Wandel's Ruins Page — a few odds and ends worth investigating
• Modern Ruins — photographic essays of dereliction, featuring Bethlehem Steel amongst others. One of the finest online collections of such images I've seen to date
• OldNYC.com — examining New York City's transportation infrastructure
• Panama Railroad — Panama fascinates me
• Scott's Railroad Archaeology Page — Abandoned branches of the B&M in southern New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts
• Searching for Abandoned Rights-of-Way — in and around Long Island
• Silent Rails — a small but worthwhile gallery of the Lackawanna Railroad's New Jersey Cutoff
• Undercity — I want to be this guy.
• The Vanishing Point — a site that began as an examination of the drains of Ontario (that is not a typo) has become fascinating collection of places to explore, including long forgotten tunnels, abandoned mines, and disused industrial complexes

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