I piloted a drone over the abandoned Genesee Power Station in the Southern Tier of New York on a recent evening. It was my third flight of the GoPro Karma drone which presented some teachable lessons in flying around obstacles, especially live high-voltage power lines.
Built in 1948, the coal-fired power plant was placed on cold standby in 2000 and abandoned by 2012.
Many years ago, I hiked out to these derelict cabooses, passenger cars, and miscellaneous cars along the former Louisville & Southern Railway Lexington to Lawrenceburg Division in central Kentucky.
Several weeks ago, I revisited the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant. IAAP, which manufactured smokeless gunpowder and other ordinances, was the largest of its type in the world at the time of its completion.
Exploring a temple, observatory, and factory on the road towards Cleveland, Ohio was a good way to cap off a trip to the Rust Belt.
The series of buildings at the corner of East 9th and Monmouth streets in Newport, Kentucky, is fascinating, and after years of neglect, is being renovated.
