We left the train depot and visited a few more villages. When we left one of them, I gave my friend a link to an article by the largest newspaper in the country. A link to the article in Finnish is here, but I will tell in short what it was about. Once upon aContinue reading “The Home Of Criminal Minds”
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Behind The Scenes Part II
There definitely was something orange back here, and not just anything orange. This is a DM8/9 – ‘The Carrot’, hence the livery. These are the last surviving examples of this train built around 1965 and abandoned around 1990. A restoration project has begun, but it has been interrupted due to issues between the members ofContinue reading “Behind The Scenes Part II”
Behind The Scenes Part I
As I said in my previous post, I’m a sort of a railroad nerd, but not very interested in the steam era. What interests me the most is the post war era from the early 1950’s all the way to the 1980’s before my birth. What really intrigued me in Haapamäki was not the steamContinue reading “Behind The Scenes Part I”
Greeting The Killer Locomotive
Like I told in my previous post, Haapamäki used to be a strong railway village. Here’s a look at the station area. The white building to the left is the former station restaurant, the yellow building the former station. Back then there were no restaurant cars, so trains would stop for long times and theContinue reading “Greeting The Killer Locomotive”
The Tiny School By Main Street
Welcome to Haapamäki, a village once famous for railroads. When the main rail network of Finland was built back in the late 18th century, the main line running through the length of Finland was drawn through here. Another connection Eastwards was added in 1897 and another one Westwards in the 1930’s. This made Haapamäki oneContinue reading “The Tiny School By Main Street”
Take Me To Church
One of the things that is often admired on urbex photography sites are abandoned churches. Amazing photographs of old religious buildings have really rocked the internet. But they are from abroad. In Finland we really don’t have that many abandoned churches. The reason is very simple. As Lutherans have been the majority religion throughout theContinue reading “Take Me To Church”
A Curse Is Cast
Here I am approaching a location I’ve spied on for quite some time. I read about it on another urbex website, but had to do quite a lot of digging to find it in the first place. It was located deep in the countryside far from any big villages but close to a railroad. AndContinue reading “A Curse Is Cast”
The Anatomy Of An Abandonment
Another small rural village, another former commercial building abandoned. As you clearly can see, it’s a former co-operative grocery store. And how do I know this. Well that’s because it looks like this one. They are definitely drawn by the same architect, Erkki Huttunen, in the late 1930’s or early 1940’s. What I found ratherContinue reading “The Anatomy Of An Abandonment”
We’ll Show You The Morgue Part VII
We were faced with a very large lobby, which was in a horrible condition. As the hospital was built on a hillside, this floor was partly the ground floor and partly the basement. But we’re still above ground level. The room had what looked like a buffet. It seems we found the canteen of theContinue reading “We’ll Show You The Morgue Part VII”
We’ll Show You The Morgue Part VI
We next found the main lobby and what was probably the main entrance to the hospital. We started looking for a way to the other wing of the building, but before that we found some unexplored rooms in the back of the building. This is probably where the patients were admitted to the hospital. TheContinue reading “We’ll Show You The Morgue Part VI”