Wombat Obscura

Massive five-story-tall steam pumps formerly used to supply water to the city of Buffalo, N.Y.

Inside a derelict steam locomotive.

Water pump in an industrial museum.

Massive, abandoned steam plant for large psychiatric center.

Locomotive in a museum.

Abandoned high-rise psychiatric hospital.

World War II-era rescue tugboat stuck in the mud.

Long abandoned silo on the Buffalo River.

A boiler lists precariously in a marine graveyard.

Old airliner missing a few critical pieces.

Rhode Island bridge abandoned in the up position.

Circa 1920s Tugboat, abandoned and decayed.

Streamlined steam locomotive, shown at a museum.

Charred remains of a wooden steamship built during World War I.

Blower house for the blast furnace at the old Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pa.

The old St. Nicholas coal breaker, where demolition apparently stopped before completion.

The ribs of an old wooden vessel are revealed at low tide.

The low winter sun is visible through the holes in this old Connecticut paper mill.

Head-on early morning view of the former Bethlehem Steel works in Bethlehem, Pa.

This silk mill in Maryland is called the last of its kind in the nation.

Towering coal dumper on the New Jersey waterfront.

One small part of Bethlehem Steel's massive former facility in Bethlehem, Pa. 

The last days of the great Huber Coal Breaker in Ashley, Pa. It was demolished not long after this photo was taken.

Antique motor in a Connecticut Museum.

Antique steam engines in the old sewage treatment plant in Prague, Czech Republic.

Many hundreds of spindles lined up in the old silk mill.

Steam pumps in a former water works in Massachusetts.

Large pair of winches at an old coal dumper on the New Jersey waterfront.

Large Alco locomotive awaiting restoration at a Connecticut railroad museum.

Machinery in Thomas Edison's workshop in West Orange, New Jersey.

Pipework at the former Boston water works.

Massive steam powered water pump at Kempton Park, near London.

Ductwork at the former Bethlehem Steel facility in Bethlehem, Pa.

Towering abandoned coal dumper on the New Jersey waterfront.

Massive ladle at an abandoned iron furnace in Birmingham,  Alabama.