Must-see ruins, beautiful images of Appalachian coal mine traces taken

Jim Lo Scalzo's 3-minute short film 'Ghosts in the Hollow'AppalachiaAbandoned scattered in the alpine zone ofCoal fieldWorks photographed the former coal mine town which became the site of mining facilities and ghost town.

Even though you can cut anything, the images that are supposed to be useful as photographic works with images of high completeness put on sorrowful songs have a unique atmosphere.

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The stage of this movie is a trace of closed mines covered with Appalachians. There are places where only the concrete foundation remains, such as pounding and remaining coal-fired cars and coal mining places, if you do not look carefully, there are places you do not notice, and every town is abandoned and there is a place that became a ghost town.


movies"ShiningA mountain road that reminds me of the beginning of the mountain.


I will go unpaved road where snow is scattered.


BGM was established in 1933 by the American Coal Mining Labor UnionUnited Mine Workers (UMWA)"Sprinkle Coal Dust On My Grave" written by Mr. Orville J. Jenks.


Let the flowers be forgotten, sprinkle coal dust, when a coal maker betting his life for his wife and child said, "Do not forget me, little darling, when they lay me down to rest, tell my brothers all these loving words I say; On my grave in remembrance of the UMWA "(Darling, do not forget your brothers when I am buried," I do not need flowers, Please sprinkle coal dust in my grave to commemorate UMWA It seems that it was a song that I sang with "I said that it was like a union song.


In the United States in the first half of the 20th centuryMore than 1000 people per yearIt is said that things workers were killed in a mining accident.


Trees grow on the rail tracks to bring out coal.


A building that looks as if the roof fell and it got to have been bombed.


Here is the window glass left.


As much as it is possible to make a photo album this way, there are scenes with atmosphere.


Is it a post office or something here where the shelves are lined up in rows?


Graffiti on the wall may be what the young man who came to explore the ruins left behind.


Somehow jeans are hanging.


Is it the hair of an animal that looks like the hair caught on a branch? It is a little horror feeling.


Places dotted with abandoned houses.



In the ruins.


Bathroom.


It seems that this railway line is being used by active duty.


A freight train passes by ghost town.


This is mainly a mining accident andPneumoconiosisIt seems to be a cemetery where people who died of occupational diseases such as the burial are buried.


Tombstone with photo.


It is a pretty young boy, did he still die from a mining accident?


Pictures that are completely hidden.


It is a cemetery in a position overlooking the residential area, but after the town itself has been abandoned it may be that few people visit the cemetery.