Thursday, July 22, 2010
Today was a grueling day of exploring from morning to sundown. Most of the places we were looking to get into had recently been securely boarded up or had shiny new barb-wire fences around them. The only notable exception today was a location I won't be posting about other than to say that you should be jealous.
This building, however, has been on the list for a while and today was it's day. Turns out it was, according to some scribbling on the wall (verified by the internet), TRRA Tower #1 Interlock for Union Station Tracks. The only further information I have at this time is that it was also known as Perry Tower. It was fairly small and in horrible condition.
Although I think graffiti in general is lame as hell, "YNOT" was a friend of mine who was murdered not long ago and I was pleased to find some of his work here. RIP.
I can't verify that all of this information is correct, but a preliminary investigation reveals that it is plausible. Random rooftop shot from the end of the day today.Labels: abandoned, industrial, railroad, saint louis, station, train, urban ruins, urbex