Kingsbury Fish and Wildlife Area: Abandoned
Dec 8, 2023 22:01:55 #
4500+ acres used to be a thriving place for munitions testing during WWII. Seventy years later, a lot of picturesque, abandoned stuff still lurks in unexpected places -waiting to have its picture taken 🤗
Rails removed for scrap; ties still travel into the distance on the old rail bed
An ex-wooden bridge across a small stream, allowing farmer access
Any homesteads in the area were abandoned due to unexploded munitions still lurking about
Abandoned railroad trestle, still sturdily, silently waiting for business
Used to be warehouses, with spurs attached to each
A nearby factory sometimes stores its unused boxcars here, but otherwise nothing
Abandoned bottle and .02 deposit
Dec 8, 2023 22:07:06 #
joecichjr wrote:
4500+ acres used to be a thriving place for munitions testing during WWII. Seventy years later, a lot of picturesque, abandoned stuff still lurks in unexpected places -waiting to have its picture taken 🤗
Very nice collection of photos. Looks like a place that needs a photographer to frequent.
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Dec 9, 2023 06:45:40 #
joecichjr wrote:
4500+ acres used to be a thriving place for munitions testing during WWII. Seventy years later, a lot of picturesque, abandoned stuff still lurks in unexpected places -waiting to have its picture taken 🤗
Love these Joe
Dec 9, 2023 07:22:07 #
joecichjr wrote:
4500+ acres used to be a thriving place for munitions testing during WWII. Seventy years later, a lot of picturesque, abandoned stuff still lurks in unexpected places -waiting to have its picture taken 🤗
Fantastic set!!! Joe
Dec 9, 2023 09:03:40 #
maxlieberman
Loc: 19027
These are super photographs, Joe. I really like them a whole lot. A great study.
Dec 9, 2023 11:09:32 #
Dec 9, 2023 12:09:39 #
nice captures. be careful, we wouldn't want you to have a "Blast" among those things that go boom
Dec 9, 2023 13:42:11 #
Dec 9, 2023 14:53:31 #
ntonkin
Loc: western Upper Peninusla of Michigan
This area is a very toxic place to visit. Munitions were manufactured there during WWII and up until 1960. Fisher-Calo operated an industrial waste treatment facility near here and is a company that is listed as one of the most hazardous super-fund sites ever identified by the EPA. The contaminants were neurotoxic and carcenogenic.compounds. I went there in the late 1980's for weekend reserve training and I saw familiar plants growing there that were almost frightening in size and partially buried 55 gallon drums of "something". I never went there again. Laport county, (where Kingsbury is located), is a small county in northern Indiana that contains 50 super-fund sites.
Dec 9, 2023 14:57:51 #
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Dec 9, 2023 15:41:01 #
Bill_de wrote:
Very nice collection of photos. Looks like a place that needs a photographer to frequent.
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Thanks, Bill, but since these pictures back in 2003, I haven't had the guts to go back on any of these little-used roads hunting for shots. I DID, but not anymore, the way society has gotten. I have tried a couple of times, but when I am out there and there is not a sound of anything around, my skin crawls - and then I imagine some deranged guy waiting with a machete back in the weeds... just waiting.... and watching
Seriously.Dec 9, 2023 15:42:09 #
junglejim1949 wrote:
Love these Joe
Glad you do, Jim. I am going through old ones constantly, and I know I got back in the weeds several times for shots of abandoned factories they had there. Hopefully something will come up!
Dec 9, 2023 15:43:48 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
Fantastic set!!! Joe
I have lots more abandoned stuff from this area, Frank. Hopefully I will come across them. All forlornly picturesque and eye catching. These days, I wouldn't dream of going back on those roads that nobody uses in this 4500-acre place.
Dec 9, 2023 15:44:21 #
maxlieberman wrote:
These are super photographs, Joe. I really like them a whole lot. A great study.
I really appreciate that, Max, and I'm glad you have enjoyed them
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