Spiderman and abandoned railways

[giza]

I ended up crashing at Kagemushi's this weekend. xydexx and Rigel were visiting this weekend, and while Rigel went off to a pinball convention in Allentown on Saturday, Kagemsuhi, Xydexx, Carmine, and myself drove up north of Allentown to check out some abandoned railways up there.

Apparently exploring abandoned places is a quite a hobby of a Xydexx's, and I can understand why. It's simply amazing to think how just 100 years ago, there were dozens of railways in the area. Now all that's left of them are flat stretches of land where the tracks ran, and sometimes the poles that telegraph wires ran on. Even the tracks themselves were pulled up long ago, most likely so that the steel could be melted down and recycled.

What I found particularly amusing is that the usefulness of the railways degenerated to the point where roads, such as the Pennsylvania Turnpike, now cut some of these old tracks in HALF. How our country's transportation systems have changed.

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More abandoned stuff!

[xydexx.livejournal.com]

Good to see you! Next time we'll visit some of the abandoned tunnels on the Turnpike, or perhaps Centralia. -=)