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Carpet City Power Plant, NY Sept '14

mookster

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Ahhhhh that's more like it, back to the sneaky sneaky proper non permission visits

;) Late September brought around what was planned as an absolutely mental weekend of explores, which turned out to be a lot easier said than done as neither me nor my American contact factored in the 'awake for 60 hours' part...First stop was a meet-up in a small city in upstate New York, which was once the American home of Carpet weaving/manufacturing. Same old story, once all the mills shut down and the jobs moved abroad, all the money dried up and the city has never recovered. Most of the downtown area is full of empty shops and many many homes are vacant. As it turned out, when we arrived neither of us knew about the epic steep hill that needed to be climbed to get into the actual city as the Amtrak station was right at the bottom of the hill! And in 25+ degrees heat, carrying my life in a large purple bag on my back and my smaller rucksack with cameras etc, and a tripod, it became a real endurance test for me over the three days we travelled around.

As is always the case we chose the most ridiculously difficult way into the place and found a hilariously easy way out the other side, but ever since I found this place and put it on my map I had wanted to see it, it's always good doing a power plant but to do one not even the majority of American explorers know about is even better - especially when it comes complete with a pair of late 19th-century turbines. The main mill building is long gone and the smoke stack was brought down in 2006 but the long-vacant power plant remains sat there slowly rusting away, encased by undergrowth.

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Thanks for looking, more here :) https://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/sets/72157648659792079/


 

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Some really nice decay going on here mate and have capture well (y)

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NICE!! Loving the old turbines and that spiral staircase has Phwooaaarrr written all over it (y)

 

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loving that man !, lovely bit of indust !

 

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Nice. That first photo with the light rays is a stunner!!

 

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Very jealous right now!! Them spiral stairs are a corker :)

 
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