A view through a chain link fence of this huge industrial plant now being torn down. Some interior bays were nearly 1500 feet long. Tanks were built here for the military from WW II and up through Korea into the 1960s. Access is terrible, even outside the fence there is a dense jungle of "stuff" including briars.
With scrap and metal prices up to the levels that even bronze art statues of the likes of Rodin are stolen and cut up for scrap (happened in the Netherlands!!! - luckily, they managed to capture it before it was smelted, although heavily damaged they managed to restore it), I fear that even in the US with its history of "conquer new land, abandon the old", these derelict buildings will fast become a thing of the past...
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