Abandoned Places - Fort Worth, TX (Dec 12)
Last winter, I went to Ft. Worth to visit a dear friend and do an extended modeling shoot with her. While I was visiting this amazing lady, she indulged my passion for abandoned sites. Given Ft. Worth’s history as a gateway to the old west and its slow change from a blue collar meat packing town to a technology and manufacturing center; I knew there had to be some cool site. I researched a few places, on-line, checked several community & photo blogs and asked her for ideas of things she’d seen. The results for a day’s wander were exceptional.
Location #1 - Downtown
Fort Worth grew for up as a cow town and the rail hub. Cattle were shipped east to a hungry nation and goods were shipped west to build the growing communities on the frontier. Times change and the transportation hub shifted away from downtown leaving this monument to those days.
Texas Express Company AKA The Texas and Pacific Freight Terminal
Not very welcoming
Anyone familiar with downtown Fort Worth has likely seen this impressive edifice.
The building is moderately secure. I saw a few ways in, but we were exploring on a business day and it was fairly busy around the building.
In fact, two city police cars rolled past us as we were shooting the front area.
Close-up of one of the open windows
Looking into one of the basement windows
As we wandered around the side of the building towards what might have been the freight offices once, I raised my camera overhead a shot several photos through the barred windows only to see a host of undead moving towards me.
Apparently the community has used the place as a haunted house.
Rather than completely wimping out, we bypassed a fence and walked down the back side of the former cargo loading docks.
Glancing in a window, I caught a view of one of the old freight elevators.
Even abandoned for many years, the building still had an air of authority to it.
This is the back side of the building looking at the gateway shown in the basement pic.
Hobo sign - “safe place”
Part 2 - coming this week.
Location #1 - Downtown
Fort Worth grew for up as a cow town and the rail hub. Cattle were shipped east to a hungry nation and goods were shipped west to build the growing communities on the frontier. Times change and the transportation hub shifted away from downtown leaving this monument to those days.
Texas Express Company AKA The Texas and Pacific Freight Terminal
Not very welcoming
Anyone familiar with downtown Fort Worth has likely seen this impressive edifice.
The building is moderately secure. I saw a few ways in, but we were exploring on a business day and it was fairly busy around the building.
In fact, two city police cars rolled past us as we were shooting the front area.
Close-up of one of the open windows
Looking into one of the basement windows
As we wandered around the side of the building towards what might have been the freight offices once, I raised my camera overhead a shot several photos through the barred windows only to see a host of undead moving towards me.
Apparently the community has used the place as a haunted house.
Rather than completely wimping out, we bypassed a fence and walked down the back side of the former cargo loading docks.
Glancing in a window, I caught a view of one of the old freight elevators.
Even abandoned for many years, the building still had an air of authority to it.
This is the back side of the building looking at the gateway shown in the basement pic.
Hobo sign - “safe place”
Part 2 - coming this week.