Architecture and Infrastructure
Yazoo River Swing Railroad Bridge
The Bates & Rogers Construction Co. in Chicago built the Yazoo river Swing railroad bridge for the Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad in 1944. It replaced the original drawbridge from 1905. Today it is closed, the tracks are removed, and it…
Camp Century
Secret American military base established in 1959, and abandoned in 1967. Nuclear reactor and a dieselpowered generator. The plan was to excavate 2.500 miles of tunnels in the snow, and be able to store and launch 600 nuclear missiles. The…
The whale car wash
Built on the corner of Northwest 50th Street and North Meridian Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma around 1970 Not much is known about the eye caching structure, and today it has been torn down, so any information would be more than…
Michigan Central Station
Detroit’s Pride and the worlds tallest railway station, when it was built in 1914, after the original depot caught fire in December 1913. At the beginning of the 20th century 4000 passengers arrived or left the station aboard no less…
Bengal Enamel Works LTD
Bengal Enamel Works Limited had a large factory just outside Calcutta. They produced a long row of enamel signs and products. The Indian army bought their Enamel plates from Bengal Enamel Works, and the factory also produced the “ESSO Elephant…
Kinzua Bridge
The Kinzua Bridge was hailed as the “Eighth wonder of the world”, when it was built in 1882. Back then it was the tallest bridge in the world. A record it only held in two years. The original bridge was…
RAF Stenigot
RAF base built in 1938, and was a part of the “Chain Home Network” during the second world war. In the beginning the radar consisted of eight tower antennae. Four transmitters and four receivers. There were used to detect incoming…
Grecian
90 metre long Steel bulk freighter, built in 1891 for the J. P. Morgan owned company “U. S. Steel Corporation” The ship struck a reef on it’s way a dock in Detroit, for repairs, and began to take on water.The…
SS Ayrfield
Built in 1911 as the Corral, at a dock in Grangemouth, Scotland.In 1912 it arrived in Sydney, Australia. Served in WWII as a supply vessel, and delivered supplies to the American troops in the pacific.When the Second World War ended,…
Monohansett
A 49m long wooden bulk freighter, built in 1872, as a double decked wooden bulk freighter, and christened Ira H. Owen.It was built by Linn and Craig in Gibraltar, Michigan.In 1882 it was rebuilt as a single decked lumber carrier,…
