Abandoned highways and other corpses of infrastructure

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I stumbled across a cable TV show about a place in Brazil called Fordlandia In the 1920’s Henry Ford decided to raise his own rubber for tires. He pretty much imported a rubber processing/tire manufacturing plant, plus the staff and families to run it. The show I was watching had pictures of a coffin that had been brought down, in case anyone needed one, still sitting empty in a warehouse.

Unfortunately, Ford was spectacularly bad at raising rubber trees (and didn’t both to hire horticulturalist until it was to late). The place closed down without ever having processed any rubber.

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A great song about local railway stations being abandoned in England:

Slow Train

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I hope it’s OK to bump this thread again, for these two photos I took today of two runways of another abandoned airfield:


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A few years back I learned about Hashima Island, which sits at the entrance to Nagasaki Harbor. After 84 years of coal-mining, the island was abandoned in the mid-70s.

Cabinet Magazine

There are no online pictures with the article, but I Googled the island and found a bunch of sites with photographs.