Alerted by a mention in the Society for Industrial Archeology Newsletter, I discovered www.implosionworld.com, which contains photos of demolition by explosives of various structures.

This perversely-fascinating site contains photos of the last seconds of a few railroad-related structures, such as the CN office at Toronto, a grain elevator identified as the "Reading headbuilding," the whopping Ohio Turnpike bridge over the ex-B&O Cuyahoga Scenic Railroad, the Big Muskie walking dragline, and the row of stores that used to form the backdrop to the Scranton engine terminal. Also two local sentimental favorites, Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. department store and the Stroh's brewery stock house, and dozens of public-housing projects, highway bridges, hotels and 1970's football stadia.

Pretty much the entire railroad-era logistics infrastructure (warehouses, stores, elevators, conveyors, steel mills, et c.) seems to be represented on this site. It's all going fast. No news lately on whether Detroit's MC Depot will escape a place on this web page.

- Aarne Frobom