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l'objet
 
 |  | abandoned thermal plant & steel mill [Oltenita, Romania]
< on 1/19/2008 11:49 AM >
|  | | | oltenita is a romanian port-town on the river danube. in the communist period, it had a striving economy due to the NAVOL shipbuilding plant, which employed over 80% of the town's residents and built one third of romania's ships. in the first few years after the 1989 revolution, nearly all of the romanian industry (including NAVOL) were privatised & closed down.
nowadays, oltenita is little more than a ghost town, with an unemployment rate of ~60%. all it's mighty industrial parks now lay in ruins.
thermal plant
this is where they used to burn coal to provide heat for the city. today, the place is packed with gipsy scavangers looking for any piece of scrap metal left.
suspended railway (about 5m from ground level0
steel mill
this is where they used to melt raw metal into ship & train parts. the ship parts would be assembled in the shipbuilding factory nearby, the train parts would be sent to brasov for assembly. as of 2008, half the factory is owned by "an exquisite indian industrialist" (probably mittal), the other half by a greek ship-builder. none of them have worked since 1993
pictures taken in june 2007 with a sony cybershot T30 camera & slightly adjusted in photoshop
ps
my first post.
please excuse them typos
[last edit 1/19/2008 11:55 AM by l'objet - edited 3 times]
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| | Re: abandoned thermal plant & steel mill [Oltenita, Romania]
<Reply # 1 on 1/19/2008 1:20 PM >
|  | | | Looks great. What's the gauge of the railway tracks in the fourth pic? Looks quite narrow. I really like the evil-looking grab in the last picture - there's just nothing like heavy industry.
Unfortunately the problem with abandonments in Eastern Europe and other places with slight economic problems, high unemployment rate etc. is that every abandoned place gets stripped of everything worth of anything. Only concrete shells or skeletons are left. Of course we can not blame the locals who do it to stay alive, but from explorer's point of view it makes locations like the one in the first picture, that may have once been urban explorers' dream, pretty dull and uninteresting in the end.
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| | Re: abandoned thermal plant & steel mill [Oltenita, Romania]
<Reply # 2 on 1/19/2008 1:38 PM >
| | | | the rail gauge is standard european 4'8 1/2". the tracks were removed and placed beside.
[last edit 1/19/2008 1:39 PM by l'objet - edited 1 times]
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| | Re: abandoned thermal plant & steel mill [Oltenita, Romania]
<Reply # 3 on 1/21/2008 12:45 AM >
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Nice stuff. Thanks for posting and welcome to the site.
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| |  | Re: abandoned thermal plant & steel mill [Oltenita, Romania]
<Reply # 4 on 1/21/2008 12:48 AM >
| | | | looks like the CN tower in the back of #2.
cool stuff.
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| | Re: abandoned thermal plant & steel mill [Oltenita, Romania]
<Reply # 5 on 1/24/2008 12:39 AM >
| | | | Very cool!
How is Romania these days?
By the way, some very good shots... Welcome to the site!
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| | | Re: abandoned thermal plant & steel mill [Oltenita, Romania]
<Reply # 6 on 2/2/2008 5:05 PM >
| | | | COOL STUFF!!
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