TCI: Up Close and Personal

Posted by: Exoth℮rmic

One can't get sick of TCI. I have been there 4 times and there is still much that I have not seen. These pictures are freshly finished, but are from our initial visit almost exactly a year ago.

Link to full gallery on Flickr (~75 photos).

1. Note that no one will ever see this and the next particular scenes again. Sometime around the winter of 2009/10 all of the stacks in this image were inexplicably demolished by some nefarious entity.


2. The fact that the historic stacks were knocked over without any public notification or even any media coverage thereafter is a travesty in itself.


3. The otherwordly hot metal mixer.


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Return to Ruins: TCI Ensley

Posted by: Naaman 

 Seven months makes a big difference.

In the heat of the summer, at the pinnacle of underbrush and Alabama humidity, TCI looks like a different place than in the dead of Winter. I saw an entire building and a third train engine that I had not seen before. Not to mention numerous smaller structures and holes in the Earth big enough to swallow cars.

Hot Metal
Check it and see


1. I used to live inside


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Coke Plant

Posted by: Naaman 


Birmingham's finest urban relic: The old coke plant

Climbing up the see-through stairs on the way up the side of the coke oven was a rush that was equaled minutes later as we descended the conveyor shafts down over 100 feet to the ground below. Watching pieces of our stairs make the long fall was sobering.

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