OK, it sure looks like a traffic jam and it sounds cool calling it that but in reality this looks like a wrecking yard or some other salvage operation that was abandoned and now Ma Nature is reclaiming the whole works inch by inch, day by day. The photos of the place are amazing and it seems like something straight out of the movies or something because of how the cars are parked in this seemingly gridlocked state. Since the cars ages range from the 1950s up, we can assume that perhaps there was a “collector” that lived in the area or someone was running a scrap business and just walked out on it one day, never to return. The details of the place are pretty sketchy. For instance, we really don’t know how far off the road the place is, if it is fenced off, or anything else. Jumping on Google Maps and checking satellite photo views of the area yields a very green screen with lots of fields and treetops. The canopy of the trees is so thick that you really can’t even begin to guess where the cars are.
Stuff parked in the woods has been popping up more and more this summer with the WWII era planes we told you about in Ohio and now this. Photographers Rosanne de Lange and Theo van Vliet shot the photos and know exactly where the place is. Lost of photographers who shoot stuff like this, hidden awesome things take great care not to divulge the specific location of the photo shoot for fear that people will come and destroy the place. Seems odd to think about that in the context of rows of junk cars but we understand and appreciate the mentality. Not that we want to see stuff rot back into the Earth but we’d rather see it do such a thing peacefully rather than being smashed, bashed, and defaced totally along the way.
Click the IMAGE below to see all the photos of this amazing automotive graveyard that has been frozen in place for decades.
“The Rusting Dead”…Watch out for the walkers!
Brian,
If this sort of things is something you like to check out, there are a few amazing pictures of all the old vehicles from the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station Disaster cleanup in Chernobyl.
All the Hinds, tractors, APCs and trucks couldn’t be reused because of the contamination, so they were just left in the exclusion zone.
http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/10/radiation-contaminated-vehicles_07.html
Be wary, the site with the photos is infected.My firewall shut it down.