USA
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Bertha Rogers
The Lone Star Producing Company’s oil exploratory hole, Bertha Rogers, was 9.583 metres deep, and the worlds deepest hole between 1974 and 1979, where the Soviet Union broke the record with the Kola Superdeep Hole. The drilling was done with…
Crosfield General Merchandise
This little shop is located in the small town of Wasco. In 1903, Oregon Trading Company, owned by Mr. E. o. McCoy, and Mr. Gearge N. Crosfield burnt down.This building was presumably built shortly after that. It has been abandoned…
Bannerman Castle / Bannerman Island Arsenal
The castle was actually a large warehouse, built on Pollopel Island in Hudson River, by the Scottish businessman Francis Bannerman VI, as a warehouse to store his stock of weapons and ammunition. Bannerman bought the island in November 1900, to…
Calico
Established in 1881. Largest silvermine in California, by the late 1800’s More than 500 mines, and a population of 3,500 people. In 1896 the government decided to regulate the price of silver, by introducing the “Silver Purchase Act”, witch made…
