Largest Abandonment in America - WWII Ammo Factory
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In this episode, we explore the largest abandonment in America. This factory was used to manufacture ammunition used during World War II.
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This is the old Indiana Army Ammunition Plant in Charlestown Indiana. I've worked in the plant numerous times over the years for contractors, from when it was operational to putting in stand by status. It was built in the 1940's and at one time employed over 20,000 workers. You were right about the grounding straps, to prevent a static charge, and explosion. And also about the emergency slides. I once went down one of the tall one's when working there years ago, I wouldn't do it again, of course, unless my life depended on it, which was the design. Traffic from the plant use to be bumper to bumper. It was really something in it's hey days. The newest part of the plant is by what is now the Charlestown Park, called black powder, it was built around the Vietnam war, is a small addition, from what I remember, I don't think it actually was put in production or not for very long. A lot of people got years and years work from the ammo plant. I worked off and on there over the years. At times we would sandblast all the steel structure inside the buildings, remove all the sand and paint chips, and apply three coats of epoxy paint. To put in a state of readiness, or stand by status. Of course, you had electricians and other trades also. I knew people who actually worked at the ammo plant, and some that retired from there. I actually think it's great that it's being razed and reclaimed. It's just been decaying for years. Some of the very buildings we worked in, completely reworking, have since just sat, vandalized, and decaying. So, now they are being tore down, and a industrial park type place, with numerous business being built, including a new huge Amazon complex. They say, eventually, it will employ 20,000 to 30,000 people. Which would be equal to it's hey day, or even more. It's great for the community. Good to see some of the old buildings again. Thanks for posting. John G
Thanks for info, John. It is interesting. 🙂
I worked at JAAP which was 35000 acres
I wanna visit the place, but is it torn down yet?
Considering their age, most of the buildings are in fantastic shape. The lack of vandalism is refreshing. Thanks fir the vid.
yeah, would hate to see any "vandalism" or "scrapping" on a place that was going to be Demolished! LOL
That particular site (presumably still being a military site) probably has good fencing around it, is also probably a long way from residential areas so not too many kids have ready access to it and being an actively used site is a deterrent to a lot of people.
Even though it's being demolished the new contractors wanna recoup some funds, therfore they scrap it out privately to offset future costs, but they must of had a pretty tight security the past 50yrs to have kept it protected from scumbag thieves and vandals!!
After about 30 years of being abandoned buildings fall apart .
@@splint3048 I drive by it on the way to work sometimes and it's not far from residential areas. Not like heavily populated or anything but alot of kids. But you are correct the fencing is brand new and up to date and the sit is not totally abandoned . There is plenty of military vehicles.. Humvees troop transports milling around the area daily.
What this guys is exploring is an old powder mill. My father use to work in one very much like this located in upper Indiana. I think the cart were for dispersing the slurry mixture that the explosives were made of and dispersed out in flat drying house then raked out into a very thin layer to air dry. The grounding cables were just that anyone who worked in the drying rooms had to ground themselves to prevent sparks. Each drying room might be 50 feet by 100 feet and as the powder slurry dried you didn't want any sparks present. While he was there there were two accidents from sparks in a drying house and the only thing left was a 50 ft wide by 30 foot deep crater. My dad said they never found any parts of the men working in those houses.
Tom Greenough holy shit.
Newport Indiana I think up R.T 63 from Terre Haute
There's a ammo plant in charlestown Indiana where I live, they're slowly tearing it all down for new development
@@dustinsmith4198 I think that's this place
@@dustinsmith4198 I live in Jeffersonville and I am sure this is the Indiana Ordnance Works in Charlestown. The Charlestown Clark County Public Library owns a large collection of document, photographs, maps, manuals, files, newsletters, and artifacts from Indiana Army Ammunition Plant. Roughly 1000 captured German soldiers of Rommel's Afrika Korps were brought to the plant on 19 May 1945. They were marched up Hwy 62 from the Quartermaster Depot here in Jeffersonville. In the 5 yrs that I have lived here in Jeffersonville I have done lots of research about the German POW Camps in Indiana which is a continuation of my research which started about 15 yrs ago about German POW Camps in Northern Illinois. dp.la/item/4aa7bf8dc2ce1fc5b250ade300ec9144
I worked there from 1968 to Jan. 1970. You couldn't travel out side your work area, but I worked in the warehouses where the empty artillery shells were stored. So I never seen anything but my area, but it was a large area and we had to drive from one warehouse to another. The warehouses were not heated and where the shells were stored it got 10 degrees colder in side then outside. I saw the coldest winter of my life there. It got 20 below and inside the warehouse it was 30 below. We froze between breaks.
thank you for your service
Given the events of the past 2 years it would be really nice if this place was still up and running... The Arsenal of Democracy needs to make a comeback.
We have one in Denver. I live 20 minutes away from the city.
The builds are spaced in such away that if one build exploded the next one building would not be affected.
David Micheletti 🤯
Theres no need to say "in such a way", theres nothing more to it than distance.
@@unsubme2157 Not just distance but also process arrangement and orientation.
@@unsubme2157 Actually, the design of the buildings are built "in such a way" that limits the spread of an explosion. They are all open to the air and not in "sealed" rooms so if the explosives do ignite, it's just a rapid slow burn, rather than a sudden explosion blowing burning debris all over the place.
Allowing any pressure build up that can occur with the amount of explosives they're dealing with is part of the design, it isn't just distance that's a factor.
Wrong.
I have passed by this my whole life. Probably 28 years of passing by and thinking how cool the old buildings were. There used to be so much more there but it has been demolished over time. Thanks for finally helping me take a step inside.
NexBM where is this?
@@jhonnunya9131 its the Indiana Army Ammunition plant near Charlestown Indiana. Built in the 1940's to provide gun powder/ propellants for the military. In it's hey day, employed over 20,000 workers. Eventually, dwindling down to none. But, since being reclaimed, or starting to, new business is being built, including a huge Amazon complex.
@@Johnny53kgb-nsa when I went there maybe 2 years ago it looked like yeah a lot of new warehouses being built, and i think a public park sort of thing (you could see new sidewalks being built) further southwest where the bunkers are. but I haven't checked it out since then
@@billlandgraf9377 Badger Ammo has been turned into a state park, so there is access, but the buildings are (mostly) gone...
Its definitely charlestown Indiana.
You guys don’t get enough credit you guy are the best exploitation channel on UA-cam
Exploitation channel?😂😂😂
Check out mobile instinct
TBH yeah the best no doubt
Who are they exploiting? Us? The viewers?
Don't you mean exploring, I don't think they are exploiting anyone.
Charlie & the bullet factory
Needs a worker from those days to tell the story. The things a walk thru never show. The human experience .
"Yup, that's where we made bullets"
its likely alot of those workers were women and also dead or in homes
I did an overnight 'investigation' event a few years ago in the town I work it. It was organized by my friend in the Chamber of Commerce and his paranormal team as a fundraiser. A whole group of about 25 of us had the run of an old hospital turned medical retirement home that's been closed for a while. The start of the evening was a top to bottom, floor by floor tour by a very nice older lady who was a nurse there for more than 20 years. She told us where everything of interest was, what each area did, and even some stories she had heard. As we finished, and it was nearly dark, we invited her to stay for a bit as they broke out all the techno-ghost-tracking tools, but she politely declined. She said she's refused to be there after dark for the last 10 years, have a good night. lol. It was entertaining but I can't say I personally saw evidence of anything.
More Info: khqa.com/news/local/old-louisiana-hospital-on-the-online-auction-block
@@Ian-gx9mn How informative! 🤣
@@Pieh0 My great grandma dun worked them there bullet fields 😁
I'm surprised the place wasn't as tagged/vandalized as other places you've been. Also, loving the GY!BE-esque soundtrack.
Graffiti is an art, you should chill out and take that stick from out your ass.
Shut up you dumbass
Cnswanson Not when its scribbled all over history.
its an artform, simple minds like yours wouldnt get it bitch.
My take is an idiot like yourself would never understand art.
"Hopefully this sin't poison anything." Walks through door coated in poison ivy.
I thought the largest abandonment was the city of Detroit.
I haven’t left
scottcol23 ran by democrats too, who would’ve guessed....
@@dakota481 HAhaha demonrats HAhaha, now back to my MAGA rally...
Lot of gangs , crime and poverty.
@@zachaddington5264 And you don't think poverty is connected there?
Its starve or steal to some people.
In 1940, the US Army established the 21,418 acre Ravenna Arsenal in Ohio. Located between Akron and Warren, it produced munitions for WWII, Korea and Vietnam. The Ohio National Guard uses it now as a training and logistics site, thus it's not technically abandoned.
The most concerning environmental problem at Ravenna wasn't lead or asbestos but the PCBs used as a flame retardant in the buildings' paint. For this reason the buildings couldn't be burned as had been planned.
An interesting side note about Ravenna: In October 1871, local newspapers reported residents seeing and smelling the smoke from the Great Chicago fire, which was burning 340 miles to the west. Although not very well appreciated today, there were several other major fires occurring at that same time along both sides of Lake Michigan -- Holland, Michigan burned to the ground and Peshtigo, Wisconsin suffered the largest number of deaths due to fire in US history -- and in the thumb of Michigan and in Windsor, Ontario. Ravenna may have seen smoke from all of them.
There has been speculation that a meteor broke up in the atmosphere and burning hot chunks of it landed around the Great Lakes, starting those fires.
This is not The Ravenna Arsenal.
Ok so this is not Ravenna !
Ok.
Mooncut I’ve been many days while playing Army at camp Ravenna. Mainly on the State operated side but a lot of demo training and qualifications on the Federal side. Seeing this does bring back some memories! Good ole Newton Falls 44444
Josh Foit this isn’t Ravenna
I loved the bug wall, it looked like modern art - I wonder what made some strips more popular than others 🧐😂
I'm guessing a female bug dropped in first and then all the guy bugs piled in after....
My grandfather a ww2 veteran retired from a munitions factory that is still running. It was interesting the precautions they would have to take to stay safe. Their shoes were special as they had to be grounded to avoid static discharge. They would search every worker in and out. A friend of his managed to get some explosives out and blew up his basement.
If I learned anything from RPGs, it's to check every crate for items.
That 1st walkway was amazing. The carts are unique. This whole video was great.
I love how they never use "BUSTED" or anything like that in their titles at all so when you're watching you know they might still get caught but aren't expecting it either haha
I would appreciate a "We didn't fall through the staircase" message though, my nerves are bad watching all this videos (particularly hotel grim) haha
I admire the fact they don't do vandalism on the relics
Emergency test drills at that place must have been fun when using the slides it was like a big kid playground.
They're not actually "slides". They were made to run down. That is why the sides are so high.
I've worked in there several times from late 90's into the 2000's.
@@anthonythorp7291 run down?
@@picsby_mike Yes, I was told you run down them. Seems strange as it sounds dangerous but they said it was safe and faster than sliding.
@@anthonythorp7291 WOW, I hope they had something nice and soft for them to land on at the bottom - thanks for coming back and explaining!!
This must be Acme Co. where Coyote got all his gear from.
LMAO...BEST QUIP EVER SEEN HERE...A ...CLASSIC !!!!
BEEP - BEEP
So then Wyle E. constructed those slides to help him nab that pesky Roadrunner ?
If you look carefully you might find some old order forms from products ordered by Wiley Coyote.
Acme Co actually made gas masks during the war
This place is freaking massive, I love it! 👊🏼
WatchJRGo не хуйня канал да?! 👌😂
Look at how easily they can hide from the guards in the woods. I don't get to have woods like that, just low dry brush. It is imperative that people go to Amazon and buy my "Impact" a James Grider novel so I can afford to move into a wooded place like that.
Kieran Lepley sori я не понимать!
I agree with that.
Black people right?
It’s amazing how all these years everything still remains untouched and left how it was. The structures are still sturdy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Army_Ammunition_Plant
Built with pride in craftsmanship
Most were torn down to build huge factors and wearhouses..
Imagine getting on that slide just as the building explodes and you're going down...wooo-hoooo!!!!
You related to Harry?
That intro never gets old.
do you know the name of the song in it?
Epic intro music!
I love it
Now it's old.
Always fascinating to see rooms with derelict machinery. At one stage those machines did something, and people were trained in how to operate them and knew exactly what they did.
I wondered if the round bored machines packed naval artillery shell propellant charges...seemed there were different sizes.
It wouldnt surprise me if most machinery would work without much issue, the reliability of old lathes, stationary engines etc is incredible
Oh my god I live about an hour from there! I have driven past it every few months my entire life and always wanted to explore it. It has been slowly demolished over the recent years and most of it is gone now. Thank you for documenting this.
Don’t understand what people are thinking when they dislike a video like this
I didn’t dislike it but there are times where I can’t hear home because the music is way too loud. Some have high standards when watching content. I’m certainly not one for perfection but people are petty like that.
Those carts were called angel carts that's why thewalks were so smooth fom one building to another and spread so far apart because if they hit a bump whoever was pushing he cart became an angel.
Ron Smith 3
Also note the interior of the carts are padded.
Kingsbury munitions plant. Now turned over to the environment. Mostly crumbling now. Just south of laporte Indiana. In northern Indiana.
@@whatyoumakeofit6635 Cool, I was just about to ask, thanks.
Interesting!
fml I wanted to go to bed because of a bad headache but now I saw this video pop up in my feed. Guess I'll have to endure that headache a bit longer.
I know where you are (well, were); it's it's in my neck of the woods. It was disappointing to see those buildings demolished to make room for a growing industrial park. I'm glad you got in these before they were destroyed. I always wondered what they looked like inside, but I never would have dared to do it. As for people asking about the vandalism, it was a giant complex built on thousands of acres in a rural setting- not exactly many people walking by. There was a portion (the part they were hoping to visit, but unable to due to the construction/demolition) visible from the highway, and it more likely had seen more foot traffic. Most of those buildings were deep inside the complex (which was fenced off by the feds pretty good) and had rail and river access. I sure hope Brian and Michael were wearing plenty of bug spray because I'm sure they were crawling with ticks after going through it.
In the 70's I drove a truck that serviced the Badger Ammo Plant near Baraboo, WI. At one time 40,000 people lived and worked there. Only a handful remained in 1974.
Yep, huge changes through the years. Farm country to ammo manufacturing to near abandonment housing cattle and crops to selling off all the buildings and dividing up the land.
Haven't been past there for a long time. I have no idea what it looks like today.
@@anthonythorp7291 it's beautiful, almost everything is gone and about half is now opened up to the public as the "Sauk Prairie Recreation Area".
@@IAM_GhosT1 I did environmental control in there late 90's 2000's. Spend too much time there you might glow in the dark.
Oh so that's why I don't need my night-light anymore, and here I thought it was the radium toothpaste. Lol
I always bring my own water to drink, I remember growing up hearing about how the water in the area was contaminated badly.
@@IAM_GhosT1 yep ground and ground water highly contaminated. Back then it had already leached beyond the property and they were worried about the Wisconsin river.
One project was dredging mercury out of... Gurber bay ??? along the river and contain it inside Badger.
My mom's farm was sold/taken to build this place. You were given 30 days to leave and if you didn't sell you still had to leave and it was taken to an arbitrator. She worked on the 105 shell load line during the war and said it was hard work. The day the war ended, everyone was laid off
Charlestown??? US62
@Dusty M. Yes, as well a a few other cities and townships. It's right on SR 5.
What I'm always impressed and appreciative of is that you do proper research on the places you go to and give us good information in the video.
There are some big explore channels, well just one comes to mind, who doesn't research the places at all but then gives made up info that's clearly just rubbish, it's a big peeve of mine! And it annoys me that he has so many subs when in reality he does a half assed job of researching and giving info on the places he goes to.
Who is this Half assed researcher, maybe we can call him out on his haphazardly and then he can do a better job or maybe his followers are Trump supporters
I know exactly who you are talking about. His videos are good but his bullshit and lack of research is infuriating.
American Pickers would have a field day with that Toledo scale, the carts, the signs...:)
That's the truth Lmao
Fkn rabbits messing with historical sites
S I G N S
Yes I was thinking about that with those industrail light shades, big at the moment.
Albert Gaspar I’m sure mike wolf looted the one in Burlington ia...
Been watching a lot of you guys' videos and they're really good. This is definitely something that needs to be on the History channel.
Fantastic exploration! Glad you blokes managed to document some of it before its all gone, pity its being cleared. Lots of lovely untouched artifacts still on site, hopefully someone will salvage all the light fittings and other beautiful industrial items. Thanks for the tour, and happy new year!
rustymotor it's so so SO sad that these amazing peices of history are being wrecked 😭
Grace Torres I like exploring abaondned building and all but they should be demolished
Funny you say that.. Jimmy diresta got some of the light fixtures!
Sneakyshark14 That destroys our history. If people just demolished everything we wouldn't have all the amazing ruins of old towns and cities and villages from thousands of years ago, giving us insight to the world at that time. Some run down gutted places should be destroyed, sure, but others should be left as is to hold onto our history in ways a text book and museum never can.
Wasnt this the building that Jimmy Diresta was invited by a guard and grabbed some of the light fittings??
This location/video had an amazing atmosphere, especially at that walkway
Great video I’ve been a high-pressure operating engineer for the last 30 years those turbines were made to last for 100 years they probably get still get them up and running thank you for sharing this video
Have you ever had the government show up on your doorstep and make you take a video down? Just curious.
The government’s only surveillance is of the people who watch the videos.
freedom of press
Adrian Nurse there is no reason any of their videos would be taken down.
1st Amendment wouldn't allow the gov't to win that sort of case. It would be a waste of time and resources
@PK Cazadores because of security
4:13 . . . The bulb is still there, after 50+ years!
18:47 . . . You *HAD* to do it!!!
Those green paint marks are engineer marks, its all the load bearing points in the buildings, Depending on how far along in that building they are it may also be demolition charge markers.
Where are the Zombies? There should be at least one that not smoking in the break room.
just a common trespassing vandal doing what they do
"Getting in the place undetected will not be easy" *walks across open ground in broad daylight*
“This is pretty stupid” while going down the slides but that may have been my favorite part so far 😅
16:56 I know that after an emergency slide at my local university was removed, it was moved to the city park. It wasn't well cared for and got pretty beaten up over the years. Until 1973, when a little girl lost part of her pinkie due the exposed shape edges and the slide was torn down.
The green dots could have been added to mark where inspectors took samples for asbestos abatement tests. If you ever explore the abandond Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, New York you'll see similer pink dots in 7 bunkers that were used to store nuclear war heads during the cold war. The dots indicate where samples were taken to make sure the place is not contaminated by retroactive material.
In this case I'm pretty certain the use of green paint in the workings of this plant is to mark what goes first before actual demolition via heavy equipment.
There is way too many dots and Mark's for them to be using them to demonstrate test points.
In the case of alot of storage sites or maybe to show testing sites, but usually the quantity of test points arent as great.
As for nuke testing which is what I've been educated on, if your marking the actual test point usually you box it out in a certain size to keep measurements clean on paper. Such as 1foot areas or 1yard areas.
In the case of these buildings I'm pretty sure we can say if there is contamination spread about, which I'd say there is. It isn't gonna be localized very well.
Long winded sorry.
As I sit here outside watching this while I smoke a Christmas ham I have to thank you for your awesome videos. My favorite channel, and one of the few things I enjoy watching anymore. Don't stop doing what you do lol
Clayton Stark Joshua Ayres Hey dude come check out a recent explore I did through some creepy tunnel in the uk ua-cam.com/video/KQFbp0iMW2U/v-deo.html
Great job covering as much of that place as you guys did. That's a huge piece of property and with it being in the process of being demolished in the hot summer sun with people all over the place you guys did a great job!
The quality of your content is superb. Like a journey every time. Especially your audio is too notch!
Literally 10 seconds in and I already love this! Fantastic job on everything once again
"Literally". :/
Okay but.... Where are the Zombies? There should be at least one that not smoking in the break room.
I have a feeling those green spray paint marks were points where explosive charges would be placed for demolition
Been in every building there. I worked at Midwest environmental over by the water tower. It was a great place to explore and very historical.
No you haven't
There's a Midwest Environmental Services by my house, good place to work
I was born and raised in Jeffersonville. This place is patrolled like crazy. I worked in one of the new buildings in the area for several years. There were always patrol trucks driving up and down the road. Amazing bit of history right in my hometown.
美国的遗弃。
At around the 15:30 mark those long machines are pressure molds, they were used to make cakes or billets of the explosives for easier transport.
Well, that and it serves to further incorporate the ingredients when done to the wet "dough". They weren't allowed to make batches larger than a few hundred pounds at a time, since that was the max that would only destroy ONE building instead of setting off a chain reaction like a string of firecrackers...yikes.
Hard pressing into cakes, drying in air-heated kilns and then subsequent reincorporation into the mix increases the yield by like 50%. I'm Levar Burton and you don't have to take my word for it.
I'm gonna guess the "green marks" are future demo-blast points.
"But not today."
Thank you for preserving the past with video and pics.
I'm surprised that for the time period these buildings were built in they cared enough about the workers' safety to think about building the escape slides.
America had it's shit together in the 40s
There are a lot of things we do better today, but the average workplace seeming like it cares not only because the government told it to, is hard to find.
Aleatha Vogel I was thinking the exact same thing.
Because of Unions...is why theres safety guidelines
When you've got a massive war production effort producing a very vital component, it behooves everyone to be safe. Blowing the place up by carelessness or dangerous designs gets you nowhere except backwards and a big mess.
What do you think we are, Russia? This ain't no Chernobyl.
I grew up near what was left of a WWII munitions plant in Viola, Kentucky. All that is left of it is the overgrown paved roads and a few concrete "skeletons" of buildings that are spread out all over the location and a couple of giant concrete slabs that had to be a storage building complex. The ruins stretch over a couple of square miles, most has been converted into farm fields but the paved roads are still there. Thick woods grow all over the area and it is nothing to find the remains of a small bridge over old drainage ditches in the middle of a large forest, or a still intact power pole in the middle of dense bushes. The overgrown paved roads look exactly like the ones there.
Nice to see it's not all tagged up
Graffiti is an art you neanderthal. Fucking conservatives like you make me sick.
Art is in the eye of the beholder you Philistine...
its not near the low rent area and some what secure some what remote too far for the lazy slackers to walk to since they do not have jobs or a car that's the one near Charlestown IN I worked with the demo people
+Cnswanson
Graffiti can be considered art sure, but it becomes a crime when you are painting other peoples property. So why dont you tag the side of your house and your car and enjoy that fine art!
Graffiti may be an art, but trespassers can still be shot on sight.
Ballzy move on slide. I'm assuming it was once finished in a friction reducing gloss paint lol
These places are so cool to explore.
I haven’t even ever heard of most the places before you show them neither.
Good stuff.
I used to do this stuff as a kid and then just forgot about it.
Especially when I lived in South Carolina we would go out exploring on the weekends and drives into other towns going though the old cotton plantations farm houses.
It was so cool
They were so old and being from Vegas it was all new to me , seeing stuff from the civil war & older.
It was cool and that was the abandoned stuff.
The old abandoned plantations still grew cotton though, such a trip, there’d be rows & rows of lil cotton plants ( Def not trees ) with a lil bit of cotton on them and everything completely falling apart everywhere else but there’s always be old cool stuff in the buildings falling apart, we didn’t even take anything but it was cool to check stuff out.
My Papaw worked there in the late 1960s.
what kind of cancer did him in?
@@devawnbledsoe462 Jesus😂😂
Yet again another top explore guys, keep up the good work.
I’ve seen that place many times since I live close to it. And I’ve always wondered what it looked like. And now I know. THANK YOU.
Wolf Knight Gaming very close to Delaney’s
I can't get enough of this channel, keep it up boy's!
Such an underrated channel. Been a sub for a while, love the vids
Nick Sacco Hey dude come check out a recent explore I did through some creepy tunnel in the uk ua-cam.com/video/KQFbp0iMW2U/v-deo.html
really LOVE your videos guys, please dont stop!
"please don't stop" - I recall saying that occasionally, though it was a completely different scenario. :P
Those funnels were probably for nitrocellulose to fill shells, etc. so you're correct: the workers would have to be grounded. The long passageway with rails was to move the components from storage blockhouses to work areas.
It would be laid out so different high energy materials were kept separate until final assembly.
And yes, the bugout slides!
They had really long ones on nitration plants in the old days (nitroglycerin, etc)
I think a lot of that is automated now.
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The grounding yourself thing is especially interesting, currently I cast rocket motors for my universities rocket team, and we also ground ourselves to a metal table plugged into the wall so that our static does not detonate the powders we work with. Interesting side note, we cast our motors on an old ammo factory aswell, but its owned by our uni.
Uofm?
18:50. His last words before going down should have been "Yabba dabba doo!"
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant was bigger until they turned it into Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, but some buildings still stand, and what's left is actually worth exploring, in my humble opinion.
Brett Wolff lots of DNT contamination there.
no it was not
@josephjoseph8326 Joliet was just under 35000 acres. I worked there from Jan of 84 til May of 95. Made 3mm for warthog. 25mm for Bradley. LW30mm for Apache an produced 569000 AT-4 for the marines.
During Viet Nam JAAP had 34000 workers 7 days a week operation. Groups 1A 2 3 A 3 on fare east end Groups 4 5 6 an group 7 by HWY 53. Tnt Production was done west of 53. Group 8 was out door firing range. There were over 300 storage bunkers.
@@byronscherer4986 Any DU munitions?
@@obsoleteoptics yes 30 mm for warthog about 45 million of them. Then 25mm APDST 6 million of them.
I bet there's a good million dollars in industrial lamps in that place.
millennial hipster lol
Get yo lamps, Greg
They'd be so old and inefficient that they'ed be worthless now.
@@splint3048 you'd be surprised.
@@splint3048 Not to the mass of upper middle class Steampunk hippies out there
Just think: every sheet of metal, every nut and bolt, every brace and strut, every tank and hopper, every machine, and every thing had to be manufactured and constructed by someone. Amazing all that work, discarded.
Nijel Vidler to be fair, it did win the largest war ever fought.
U did walk through a nasty patch of poison ivy At the top of those stairs. The vine was holding door shut with the Barrie’s on it. Also called poison oak.
Came here to say that.
Poison oak is different from poison ivy. Poison oak is far worse.
Is this Charleston Powder Plant in Clark County Indiana? My Late Father worked there after he came back from the Korean War.The carts at the Train Unloading station were used for bales of Cotton,Sulfur and Coal for making gun powder. The scales were for weighing the bales.Yes, the cables were for grounding against static spark.The machines at about 15 min+ are for crimping shell casings. There are many different large tanks for every thing from chemicals to water for cooling and heat. Steam heat was the only heat acceptable for safety.All the munitions that were made were sent to Jefferson Proving Grounds in Jefferson County Indiana about 40 miles away. It is now closed also. If this is not Charleston Munitions plant then it is just like it. Try to explore J.P.G. but beware.....THERE ARE UN EXPLODED MUNITIONS down range. Stick to the buildings and firing line. A 105 round will evaporate a human being. Thanks for the video. Have a safe day.
kevin lewis that’s really interesting
Truthfully, I don't think it is ICI. Most of ICI has been demolished. I used to work there: every now and then I go back. Few years back I went there and it was a brand spanking new Commerce Park.
I was going to say that the machines at 15 min look like brass case sizing machines for large field artillery shells.
Thanks for the Information Kevin, you added a lot to a great video.
That had to be the indiana army ammunition plant. It really looks like it!
Green paint is for demo charges. They mark like that for where they may be putting an explosive charge for demolition. Yall are luck that it wasn't active
Except a lot of places the green paint is located would make no sense for demolition. It's placed on crates and equipment, not loadbearing structural members. Those aren't demolition markers; more likely they're markers for things that need to be removed prior to demolition.
the green dots could be more recent, from someone doing a 3D digital capture or scan of the place
Could have been a filming location and used for 3D tracking.
Although it is (or maybe was) just a bunch of houses...the military officer housing not far from the plant, is an awesome explore! I came in on an abandoned road, signs and all. The houses were very well made, and some of them overlook the river, I imagine it was a very beautiful neighborhood for a brief time.
Great video guys, I walked around some of the old silos on that plant, but never the buildings.
“It’s not people putting rocks in it, it’s like shit and owl pellets....animals put that shit in there” 😂😂😂
Absolute classic comment from the video. Right up there with "Damn, these were new Vans." when walking through a flooded basement or tunnel.
I made another perspective on an ammunition plant near this one during the summer before demolition was started, if anyone is interested.
I always wish I could go back and see these places when they were in use. Just crazy that this was one of the key pieces to our military might back in WWII
That place was awesome, it's been years since I've explored there, but still top of the list, too bad they are demolishing it opening it up as a tourist would have been nice. You guys almost took the exact route I took exploring here.
Great as always keep the good job up boys
I'm surprised you guys haven't been caught by a subscriber. That'd be hilarious.
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i could have this ammunition plant is 2 miles from where i live. its very easy to get into it because our state park is right next to the plant and has a road that goes straight into it. just gotta walk around a chain that says no trespassing. Wish i could have caught them just to say whats up
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Crazy how unmolested this place looks. Looks like it shut down yesterday besides the overgrowth
Looks like a lot of fun.
I had a chance to explore a collection of abandoned grain silos in Buffalo, NY years back. It was fun to climb up to the top of silos, but just look out for the holes.... it's a long drop to the bottom!
It was a particularly exciting climb on one tower because one whole flight of stairs was missing (someone tossed an I-beam from the roof and it tore off about 8 steps). We had to climb the iron like monkeys about 50' above the ground to get to the next landing. People do some silly shit when they're young.
Next time DOCUMENT THE ABANDONED TRAINS BUILD INFO; those black and white plates can give a rough date to an abandonment!
I have been in these very buildings just a few years ago, a lot of the buildings have been taken down and sold as scrap iron. We were afraid to be seen as well, we were caught by workers that were there but they did not care about our presence they instead told what buildings not venture into and what dangers to look for.
Great video guys keep up the good work .
So cool watching this especially as seen as on my channel I have explored a UK ammo tunnel used to transport ammo in WW2
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Another great video- thank you. Keep up the good work
You guys are great. I like your material and the way you cover it. Subbed!
Mother nature is taking back what is hers. Beautiful place.
*My great, great grandfather worked in the foundry there.*
HardlineAthiest would be cool to find someone who worked there to tour with them and tell about all the buildings.
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AWESOME vid yall. From close to my hometown as well, but i dont have anyone to explore with. Yet. Keep up the good work
i remember when yall posted this video and got a bunch of people to go and the burn down buildings and tore all the towers and everything down. so many good signs and documents waiting to be salvaged but streamed to the masses to be destroyed. rip i still have what signs and docs i could get out of there but no hope after you guys posted this. been there 13 times and 1 year after you made this it was the last.
"Let's try speed walk"
Walks my normal pace.
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Awesome video! WWII places are our favourite places to explore - we are based in England so there's lots here lol. :)
Xplorer Yeah in England there's tons. Mostly concrete structures though.
I live in Pennsylvania, and here we don't have much. We do have 2 factories that were used for ammunition, but they were demolished and the ground was filled with radioactive impurities from the first Nuclear bombs. You can drive over those areas now, but I don't ever stick around there too long. Aside from that I have only managed to explore local areas, mainly old Forts from the French and Indian War, or The Seven Years War as you English call it. Although it isn't really exploring, more so just finding old building perimeters, large foundation stones, and the occasional depression where a trench most likely was dug.
Do some more research dude....plenty in the Keystone State
i've been in the 3rd biggest WW2 TNT-factory of Germany last month... check my video for impressions of such place... ua-cam.com/video/zSe30U4FCpA/v-deo.html
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You guys are making history exploring these old places before they are gone forever!!!
By far the best exploration team on UTube , thanks.