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Title: Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples
Post by: deemery on April 28, 2025, 06:12:48 PM
https://www.shorpy.com/node/27732?size=_original#caption

There's a variety of siding materials and a particularly beat up shingle roof, all of it pretty badly decrepit...

dave
Title: Re: Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples
Post by: Bernd on April 29, 2025, 09:11:35 AM
Metal brick. There's a building in Bergen, New York with metal brick.
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Bernd
Title: Re: Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples
Post by: deemery on April 29, 2025, 10:34:58 AM
Yeah, looking again at the edges, you're right.  Metal brick, rather than Insulbrick.  

dave
Title: Re: Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples
Post by: IWannaRetire on April 29, 2025, 06:14:10 PM
This building is a former horse carriage house at the back of a family member's home outside Chicago.  You can see 2 different embossed patterns in the photo, it actually sports 3 different patterns.  House dates to 1870 something, not sure of carriage house, but from clues inside, it's construction looks like being a close contemporary of the house.

(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-75ckvF8/0/MFXWr298FCCZtNCcGV445XFSkkWVdFDvLqTpGHrrn/L/i-75ckvF8-L.png) (https://weldtoride.smugmug.com/Other/Modeling/n-ZCSMbV/i-75ckvF8/A)
Title: Re: Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples
Post by: Dave Buchholz on April 29, 2025, 06:16:35 PM
Trying to remember....

I've seen that solo to the right of the Red metal brick written up in an article before. I even keep the pattern to make the roof.

Bernd was that you who wrote the article on the RLF group?
Title: Re: Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples
Post by: Bernd on April 30, 2025, 09:13:46 AM
Dave,

This could be the building you're thinking of. It's in Leroy. Harold Russell did drawings of it in MR.

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This coal dealer is in Bergen.

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Last time I was in Bergen the coal bins were gone. Would have loved to get the size of those coal bin blocks to make some models of them.

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I often wonder who got that  sign. I'm sure it's residing in somebodies basement.

Bernd
Title: Re: Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples
Post by: KentuckySouthern on April 30, 2025, 09:22:00 AM
Neat images to begin, not getting the 3 Bernd posted above. :o
Title: Re: Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples
Post by: Bernd on April 30, 2025, 07:27:12 PM
Quote from: KentuckySouthern on April 30, 2025, 09:22:00 AMNeat images to begin, not getting the 3 Bernd posted above. :o

I can see them. Anybody else having trouble seeing them?

Bernd
Title: Re: Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples
Post by: deemery on May 01, 2025, 02:19:20 PM
Just a reminder:  Sometimes it takes 15 minutes from the time an image was posted to the time it becomes generally visible.  A question to the forum software vendor yielded no insight on why this happens...

dave