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Industrial Scenes - Part I

korver

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Today, our tour of the world's industrial areas begins with a look at a number of refineries, seaports, train yards, and more. We'll begin in East Chicago, Indiana - where heavy industrial areas can be found along the shores of Lake Michigan.

 

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A scene from Czestochowa, Poland - where abandoned factories and train depots surround the city's rail lines.


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Railway roundhouse and train yard in the Midwestern U.S.


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A view of a rusted and run down oil refinery in rural Albania, located on the Patos-Marinza heavy oil field.


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Nighttime view of an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia.

 

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Small refinery and oil pipelines crossing the Taiga.


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Refineries, factories, and a maze of pipelines stretch on for as far as the eye can see in Fort McMurray, Alberta.


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Pump jacks and oil refineries in rural California.


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A look at the massive, colorfully painted cooling towers of Johannesburg's Orlando Power Station.

 

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Located in Western Australia, the Kalgoorlie Super Pit was the world's largest open cut gold mine for many years.


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A view of Fisher Body Plant 21 - a long abandoned automobile factory in Detroit, Michigan.


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We're traveling back in time for the next scene - to 1930's Chicago, where the city's meatpacking district and rail yards made it one of the country's most important industrial centers.


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Seaports, factories, and refineries line the shores of Pig's Eye Lake - located just outside St. Paul, Minnesota on the Mississippi River.


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A snowy day in the mining town of Norilsk, Russia.


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-korver

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Previous Update: "Industrial Scenes (Preview)"

Thanks to @Bastet69008, @Duco, @RobertLM78, @Silur, @Tyberius06, @bladeberkman, @bobolee, @VALASatoshi, @Fantozzi, @PaulSawyer, @Handyman, @CorinaMarie, @Goldman Sachs, @Androgeos, @The British Sausage, @tariely, @jakis, @Dirktator, @Simmer2, @redfox85, @_Michael, @Dead_End, @Huggy-Bear, @Manuel-ito, @gwada971, @sucram17, @mike_oxlong, @aegian, @Senyahto, @Krasner, @Themistokles, & @TekindusT for all the likes & comments!

 

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The amount of details is... dizzying. Masterful. (Although the overall effect is somewhat depressing for a tree-hugging country girl like me ;-)...). 

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Incredible! Industrial scenes are some of my favorite to see done and you blew it away! Looking forward to part two and the LA river scene in particular!

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You'd think industrial scenes will look nitty and gritty but noooooo, not with True Earth... :yes:

It also gets really interesting when you think about how intrinsically linked railways are to heavy industry. Some of the greatest endeavours in rail history came about precisely because of the need to haul industrial goods over long distances or challenging terrain. I was reading up on the Union Pacific Big Boy the other day and how it was originally conceived because of the need to haul freight over a mountain range without having to rely on multiple engines to do the work, and it was quite a read.

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Too bad the title True Grit is already taken, because it's how this update could be called.

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@RobertLM78 Thank you very much for the comment! Glad you liked it *:)

@tariely Thanks for the nice words, appreciate the comment! There will be plenty of trees later on, I promise *:P

@VALASatoshi Thanks for the nice words, glad you like the scenes!

@sc4baidu Thank you very much! *:)

@Tyberius06 Appreciate the kind words, thanks for the comment!

@DavidDHetzel Oops, must have forgotten those *:P Thanks for the comment!

@mike_oxlong *:thumb: Glad you enjoyed it!

@Androgeos Thank you for the comment! I've done some reading as well on that subject (in particular the railroads of the Western U.S.) and it really is quite fascinating - perhaps I could use it as inspiration for a couple of scenes or an update sometime down the road *;)

@TekindusT Appreciate the comment *:thumb:

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