The tools are laid down, the forklifts, the huge cranes, the machines are all idle now. The roofs are leaking and the seeping water creates small ponds inside the buildings with beautiful reflections of the metal structures.The company has closed down and only people you see now are the salvage operators taking apart the machines, the buildings and everything else that is still worth a few bucks.
A cold October day, but every one was in a good spirit. The reenactors were terrific, they played their roles so well that you really felt like you were thrown back in time
My good friend Emery Roth was going to Southington today to get ready for a presentation promoting his new book, so I decided to tag along. On the way back we came across this cement processing plant with quite a few old, discarded machinery on the back lot.
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At the Revolutionary War Reenactment in Easton, CT
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I went with a few members of our Camera Club to the Kent Antique Machinery Show on Saturday. Some truly great stuff and interesting people to photograph
Old farm on Sand road in the early morning fog
Just a bit of shameless self-promotion. Two of my good friends, Judi Bailey and David Rowley and myself just produced our first Amazon Kindle Ebook about creating paintings form photographs. It is available here :http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013J7GFLS
Yesterday’s trip was to Collinsville, Connecticut a nice, old town alongside the Farmington River. It was built around the Collins Company Axe Factory in the 19th century and quite a lots of the old buildings are still standing in relatively good condition. Found some really nice gears that they used for the dams
This might be my last visit to the Farrel Foundry site that is being completely cleaned out by a salvage crew . They have only a couple of days left to complete their operation. Who know what comes next. The wrecking ball ? Quite possible. The building is such a terrible shape, with the roofs partially collapsed in places, water all over on every floor, that fixing it seems to be out of question. So here are a few of the last images I took, some are of the electrical equipment that is being taken out and some of the crashing down old building.
