Title: Old Train House
If anyone has visited Hercules, CA recently you would have seen a town that has really expanded lately - tons of condos, new buildings, more fast-food joints than is really necessary, basically a 'new' bustling town. What a lot of folks don't know, is that Hercules has been around for a long time. They used to have a dynamite factory and it was a key stop for many railroads. But, as is the way of things, things changed and the old down was basically left to die (the dynamite factory closed and the trains no longer needed to make as many stops for water/sand as technology got better). If you go out to the old train yard/stop you can find lots of neat buildings and structures that are closed and slowly falling apart. This photo is of a house that was near the rail-yard, now fenced off, flowers growing wild and lost to the annals of time.
Enjoy.
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