Heading to Centralia, Pennsylvania on Saturday

[Pirate]

Check this place out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

I'll have a couple hours there on Saturday with my Leica M3, Nikon FE2 (w/ assortment of lenses), and Fuji 6x9.

Anyone else into shooting ghost towns?

 

[finguanzo]

Sounds interesting, never heard of the place.. Im about 2.5 hrs from there, might have to take a trip one of these days..

 

[jan normandale]

I've shot it. It might be good now because the steam doesn't show too well until there's cold. A couple of houses are still inhabited. One by the former mayor. It's interesting first hand, but a hard one to make something interesting photographically speaking. Check it out first hand, then you'll understand what I'm trying to say. Good luck!

BTW: The adjacent towns of Ashland and Mt Carmel are hardscrabble towns.. "just sayin"

 

[Pirate]

Here's some shots from Saturday. I have more but they're on E-6 film so I'll post those when I get them back from the lab. This was just one of the C-41 rolls I had done at a One-Hour photo drug store lab. I actually had two other rolls done their but the disks they gave me were blank so I have to take them back and have them remake the disks.

As soon as I get my developing equipment and scanner back, I'll be doing this stuff myself again.

And there are still a couple people living there but I've heard they are trying to be evicted.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2067577&id=1139559599&l=1bf510e190

 

[Pirate]

I got some shots of the abandoned stretch of 61 also. There was a dude in the middle of that section with a lemonade stand - like the devil selling lemonade at the gates of Hell. Very creepy indeed!

Two 4-wheelers zoomed through near the cemeteries. I snagged a shot with the M3 but need it scanned.