3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

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Thanks; yeah I was surprised it was so clean as well. I believe the place was welded shut for quite some time and pretty secure, until scrappers cut their way in to grab the copper. They're there to make cash, not spend it on spray paint.
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Yup!
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On that day, probably get hypothermia pretty fast.

When the plant was open and the gates to the water intakes were open, I'd assume there would be a pretty good pull, not sure if it would be enough to suck a floating person down though.

From here I believe you'd go down the tube, through the large turbine blades, down the large brick tunnel which makes up the outflow... and then a dropped into the river from behind the Niagara Falls water curtain.
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It does seem like he was touched by "institutionalization" - getting so used to living at a static, unchanging place for such a long time, it's difficult to return to a changing society.

Thank you for sharing.
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No - but it seemed narrower than the standard gauge.
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I'm assuming they went back and forth since they were cable driven, but I don't recall seeing the winch mechanism so I'm not positive how it worked.
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Yeah I thought it was crushed too, but it's possible that the lamp shade is intentionally curved in like that to prevent blinding a worker stationed at the same elevation.
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Thanks R.E., these look intriguing. Wish they were real (and abandoned)!
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Nah it isn't too hard to find most of these places... although a bit of a time buffer isn't a bad thing for the more sensitive locations.

I wish I could post photos soon after I take them, but there are many other things that take priority for me; time is a precious commodity. In these years (2003-2010) I was in a very big hurry to see and capture as much as I could - there would be time to work on photos later.

I'm still glad I made that choice, since so many places are now gone.
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Those blue things are actually the conveyor belt rollers that were once lined up the center. I'm guessing most of them were scrapped.
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I think you're thinking of Pilgrim State Hospital in Brentwood Long Island.
http://www.opacity.us/...m_state_hospital.htm
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Thanks - these cemetery trips are usually a kind of "aside" on the website, as they aren't truly abandoned (maybe a bit neglected).

While I don't completely disbelieve hauntings and the afterlife (I have no idea what will happen after we die), I have never experienced anything that would lead me to fully acknowledge it. After being in many cemeteries, WWII bunkers, morgues, hospitals, asylums, prisons, death camps - places of most horrific histories, and even crypts with vandalized remains... nothing. Maybe I just don't have a special talent.
Ephemera: Cemetery Safari: Moonstones
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Nah, most likely water damage seeping into the cracks of the plaster.
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Thanks - the breaker is easy to find - just West of Mahanoy City P.A.

There were many of these facilities all over the state, many pretty impressive looking, now long gone. Here's a list of Schuylkill County alone: http://pagenweb.org/~schuylkill/castles.html
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It was about three stories tall, if I recall.