Rural exploration incorporates being a historian and urban exploration all in one, making it pretty fun if you can uncover some stuff in your area. I know from when my grandparents built the house I live in, a train line used to run through the woods behind it. It was originally a commuter rail that ran through my town on a route that met up with other trains heading toward Boston, MA, but then later in the 1900s they built a state-of-the-art station in the neighboring city and thus it had no use. So they decided to rip up all the tracks, but naturally the train bed still remains.
Here's a rough picture of where the remaining bit of train bed that wasn't bull-dozed over for houses is:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/0NWck.jpg[/img]
I was browsing Google Maps one day and saw that there was indeed the train bed running through the houses near here, so I decided to try and check it out. The entrance to it was actually pretty cool, it was originally part of a concrete bridge trestle that traversed a brook that once flowed under where the road now is:
[img]http://i43.tinypic.com/106er75.jpg[/img]
There was a little supply room thing that was under the bridge, stuff for cleaning, but it appears that the brook now runs through it and the stone has collapsed a fair bit in front of it. I wasn't really feeling to risk climbing under this thing to find it:
[img]http://i44.tinypic.com/313syky.jpg[/img]
And here's a long picture of the train bed. Goes pretty far back.
[img]http://i42.tinypic.com/33wulcj.jpg[/img]
Bonus picture of some weird shit:
[img]http://i44.tinypic.com/2vltpoz.jpg[/img]
Tomorrow when I go bike riding I'll snap some pics and show them.
O_O that's all???
[QUOTE=Kefir;35902430]O_O that's all???[/QUOTE]
wow what the fuck did i do now, officer dick?
not at lot, as evidenced by the thread
quality over quantity, i could've taken 20 photos of the same railbed and posted them but that would have been fucking stupid
not every thread needs to be a 300-picture photo essay, stop expecting it
[QUOTE=Kefir;35902430]O_O that's all???[/QUOTE]
He said rural, not urban... so that kind of gives you a hint of what to expect. And like FFstudios said, sometimes its about being a historian. Everything old, especially trains, needs to be documented and preserved.
Quality over quantity all day. And wtf is up with that foamy bloody blob looking thing?
Go to Easton, Tons of epic spots like these around there and Norton
i'll keep those two places in mind if i ever feel like arbitrarily driving to the middle of nowhere
but actually they're right next to foxborough so if i ever go to Patriot Place, might have to take a trip over
[QUOTE=FFStudios;35953180]i'll keep those two places in mind if i ever feel like arbitrarily driving to the middle of nowhere
but actually they're right next to foxborough so if i ever go to Patriot Place, might have to take a trip over[/QUOTE]
I currently am homeless around Boston and have unfortunately not found many ubex spots
Malden and medford allow some coolish areas but arn't exactly rual enough
I'm not huge into rural exploration, per se, I much prefer the urban side of exploring but rural stuff is fun every once in a while when you find a gem.
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