On E. Prospect Street

A real junkyard dog protested my presence here...Luckily a chain separated me from the surly Rottweiler...


Safety and quality, no doubt; but the environment is quite a lofty claim for the king of Indianapolis Brown fields...I can't even imagine what the remediation and reclamation cost of this place would be. Walk anywhere close and you can smell the benzene and coal tar. There was recently a good post about brown field development on Urban Indy, and may accessed here.


Yes, it says boobies can....


Not your grandma's coke oven...What?

This red stuff was bubbling up out of the ground, running down the street, and into a storm drain (which undoubtedly drains into the nearby Pleasant Run).

More invasive flora...

Volatile Separation - A Portrait of the Citizens Gas and Coke Plant

Now that this post has been titled like a 'Made for television movie', lets get down to business...

Awww man, that's no fun...


I have no idea of what the function is for most of these various parts of the plant, so I won't even try to explain them ;-)






As I walked by, I could hear the very distinct sound of extreme volumes of gas under pressure flowing though these pipes.






Probably shouldn't be here, but hey nobody caught me...


This monster can be seen from many different parts of the East side.


I wonder how often these stairs were climbed when this plant was operating?


Not quite sludge, not quite mud...Smludge?