World Trip 2002 - St Louis
I
was hosted by Tripple-Fatal in St Louis. She runs the Sonic
Atropy site featuring ruins of St Louis. We had earlier on in the day
visited a massive disused but not abandoned steelworks in East St Louis. I
would have loved to have been able to take photos of that. During our trip
we were joined by David of Forgotten
Detroit.
This site was revisted in 2004
.
.
The Armor meatworks factory
This has to be one of the best abandoned buildings for pure decay and heavy equipment.
Same room, slightly different angle. This place had some really good equipment in it.
Giant water cistern that gravity fed the boilers in the next room.
Pipes, air pressure hoses, valves, cables, rails.
Big chunky equipment.
Upright steam engine and dynamo.
Big old belts wrapped in protective cages.
A two story high steam engine. Note the hand rails and barrels for size.
Overview of the machine shop room.
Old control panels.
Organ recital in progress. Please be quiet. Thank you - The management.
A maze of pipes
An unusual triangular instrument panel. The only one I have ever seen of this shape.
This whole hall was full of machines.
The big two story standing engine again, and a dynamo.
Control panel and hole in the floor. There was quite a few holes in the floor in this place. Not the sort of place to explore in the night.
Dynamo and associated machinery.
Close up of the dynamo. Note the windings seem to have either melted together or been removed.
Control panel
Another view of the big standing engine.
Yet another dynamo.
Oil storage tanks just outside of the rear door of the place.
The place is massively overgrown.
It was like a jungle out back. The ground could not even be seen. Rusted pipes and fire escapes were covered in vines.
More overgrowth.
Refraction towers? Covered in trees and ivy.
A vine covered room.
Looking down between buildings from a third floor balcony which itself was covered in vines.
Believe it or not, this is on the roof. Yep, it's a jungle up there too.
Looking down into the massive machine hall.
There were plants growing on the roof.
There was even trees growing on the roof.
More of the roof top with various trees growing all over it.
Look into the first room we entered, from above.
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