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Industrial places -and most of all, deserted ones - always inspired artists, because of their romanticism and melancholy : the once powerful and aggressive machines are now idle and cold. The monster is numb, or even dead, you can touch it or even take a revenge upon it ! The revenge now can be to use the industrial abandoned areas, like railway sheds, factory halls, chemical plants, silos, mills, breweries and so on, as film sets or dwelling spaces...
See also http://www.arhind.ro or http://picasaweb.google.ro/veneto.roma.sicilia/IndustrialArchaeology20012007#
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Camil Iamandescu > Switching mechanism at the inferior station of the sail-railway incline in Comandau, Valea Zanelor, Covasna, in 2006. It remained in service from before 1900 till late '90's for bringing logs down to Valea Zanelor. The inferior station was destroyed by a flood around 2005
Camil Iamandescu > August 2006. Remains of the mechanical brakes used by the unique incline sail-railway in Comandau-Valea Zanelor, Covasna, built before 1900. In the background, a converted Volga Gaz 24 for narrow gauge railway. Nowadays, the railway is covered by a macadam sheet of cribbled stone used by cars and lorries
Camil Iamandescu > Disrupted tracks at Comandau, 2006
Camil Iamandescu > Terminus station of the incline in Valea Zanelor, Comandau. In the background is Covasna. 2006. 
The sail-railway was used over 100 years to ferry carriages with wooden logs from the narrow gauge forest railway down to Valea Zanelor, where the railway continued to Covasna.
Camil Iamandescu > 1000 mm gauge industrial railway towards Lonea Mines, Petrosani basin, in 2007
Camil Iamandescu > "Bourul" leather shoe factory in Bucharest, in 2006. Built in 1894, in the '70-s and '80-s. it produced almost entirely for export versions of Adidas sport shoes...
Camil Iamandescu > Well preserved building in the old Factory of Matches, Bucharest, built before 1900. Picture from Dec. 2007
Camil Iamandescu > The oldest factory in Bucharest, "Assan's Mill", in 2005. After then, it suffered several fires (last one in June 2008)
Camil Iamandescu > Ruined staircases at the oldest factory in Bucharest, "Assan's Mill", in 2005. The estate boom put pressure on old industrial spaces to be demolished...
Switching mechanism at the inferior station of the sail-railway incline in Comandau, Valea Zanelor, Covasna, in 2006. It remained in service from before 1900 till late '90's for bringing logs down to Valea Zanelor. The inferior station was destroyed by a flood around 2005
 > Switching mechanism at the inferior station of the sail-railway incline in Comandau, Valea Zanelor, Covasna, in 2006. It remained in service from before 1900 till late '90's for bringing logs down to Valea Zanelor. The inferior station was destroyed by a flood around 2005
Switching mechanism at the inferior station of the sail-railway incline in Comandau, Valea Zanelor, Covasna, in 2006. It remained in service from before 1900 till late '90's for bringing logs down to Valea Zanelor. The inferior station was destroyed by a flood around 2005
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Keywords: car brake carriage forest wood commando railway incline romania mechanic gaz volga narrow gauge macadam covasna
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