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Why did you like your own comment? Anyway, all the information shared in all my videos is 100% verifiably accurate. Numerous sources over the years documented the top floor’s unfinished and unfurnished status, which is clearly visible in this video. And if you scroll through the comments you’ll see a former 60s/70s tower employee confirm it.

I’ve explored several abandoned houses, including my childhood house: ua-cam.com/video/MK--V_Q1YdA/v-deo.html

@@chrisluckhardt thank you for posting the link

@@jumanaalomary7895 Thank you! I’ve filmed and shared other abandoned houses on this channel, but that’s the most important video - at least for me. :)

The Speyer orbiter was just a testing vehicle. The only real Buran orbiter in the world is the one featured in this video.

Almost! They've completed enough renovations to open the building. Much of the building is unfinished. I'm going back to film an "after" sequence to match up with this old video and other video I haven't published.

Who was the artist?

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1993 is the year Boris Yeltsin cancelled the Buran program - after two decades of development.

Unfortunately, Buran will never fly again. These orbiters are decayed beyond flight worthiness and no suitable Energia rockets exist. The overall design is outdated for today's spaceflight needs.

Soviets completed one Buran, and it reached orbit in 1988.

The upper floors housed around 500 offices and 3000 employees for the railroad auditors, personnel, and other departments. Interestingly, the top floor was never used. It still looked like 1913 up there when I explored it for the first time in 2008!

The original manufacturers, NGO Molniya, inspected the building and shuttles in September 2021. They said the building is at risk of imminent collapse. It’s one of the reasons I wanted to go back and document the shuttles with great care before it’s too late.

Thanks for sharing! It must've been a trip walking freely around the building with permission. I managed to get down to the basement in February 2009 thanks to the bitter cold that winter freezing everything. As Scotty would say, it was...green lol.

MCS was overbuilt so that it would not be affected by the rumbling vibrations of freight trains. It was Detroit's transportation hub until the interstates and airports were constructed. I worked there 1975-84 for Penn Central/Conrail on most every floor & sub-basement. The 12th and 13th (top) floors were unfinished and unoccupied.

@@ph1sts Can you comment on just how empty the upper floor were while you worked there? Some people claim half the office tower was empty by the mid-1960s. Just curious what it was like there in the 70s and 80s.

@@chrisluckhardt Those floors were not "empty" per se, but were used for old office equipment on the 12th and hundreds of file cabinets containing documents like payroll records, waybills, accounting and customs (Canada freight trains inbound & outbound) Some of these records dated back to the 1800s even though the MCS was constructed in the early 1900s. All of those records were disposed of by attaching canvas chutes to the windows and tossing them out and down to recycling containers. All of the other floors were occupied while I was employed, but I imagine that they began to empty out pretty rapidly after I was laid off. We had RR unemployment which @ the time was only $125 biweekly for 6 months on and 6 months off for 2 years total. If I wanted to work for another railroad, I would likely have to move to Council Bluffs, IA. My late father worked for the Chesapeake & Ohio RR and 2 of my cousins worked for the Grand Trunk RR. The eldest female eventually being promoted to CEO secretary. Both received generous severance pkgs when the RR was close to closing.

Thanks so much! MCS was my favourite abandoned building for a long time. It was so close to demolition but thankfully its incredible architecture was saved and beautifully restored by Ford. Credit where credit is due because the corporation didn't have to throw nearly a billion dollars at such a huge project.

Sorry, what are you talking about?

You've been down there?

@@chrisluckhardt yeah, I worked on commercial fishing boats and sometimes we’d be stuck in Adak for a couple day’s waiting for the boat or the plane and there’s not much else to do.

The prices on this 1994 McMenu were 2-3x higher than mainland USA. It was due to shipping costs to remote and northern territories. The sensationalistic news stories about high McDonald's prices intentionally leave out that those prices are only high in a few markets (although it's still garbage food nobody should eat!). Prices vary ~75% from market to market, so I recommend looking at this Big Mac price tracking website for more accurate insights: pantryandlarder.com/mccheapest

Thanks, and I don't remember seeing any Airsoft BBs!

I hear you! I'd love to see at least Ptichka saved. For now, the best legal option is the OK-GLI test vehicle at the Technik Museum Speyer near Mannheim, Germany.

You're very kind. Thank you for the nice commentary on what is a memorial for my parents as much as the house itself.

I understand your point but passenger rail's demise was inevitable as society progressed. And it didn't help that the station was oversized and far from downtown.

I was in an abandoned farmhouse (not far from mine in this video) a few years after the son left it to neglect. It was virtually unchanged. Being so rural and off the main county roads somewhat helped to protect it from vandals.

This trip was 13 years ago, and my last one was 10 years ago, so most of my intel is obsolete. Many changes occurred after Hashima was awarded UNESCO status in 2015, including cameras and sensors being set up at various points around the island.

@@chrisluckhardt thankyou for the info

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We climbed up and into both structures.

Hourly around the space shuttle building is the last report, and they’re also patrolling the surrounding desert grasslands now.

It’s significantly more challenging in the post-UNESCO era to get to the off-limits areas of Hashima. Officials placed sensors and cameras all over the island.

@@chrisluckhardt Thank you for the information, I guess it will be no more than a dream, though I get to feel what it's like thanks to your video!

I only saw one - the underground pool in this video of Bering Hill.

Locals told me the entire reality show was faked - there's no gold on Adak. The coins were allegedly planted.

@@chrisluckhardt oh dmn that sucks

Aren't they amazing? I've seen the other two Saturn V - the one at Kennedy and last month at Johnson in Houston. Overwhelming is an understatement!

@@chrisluckhardt Absolutely! I hope to go back to Huntsville again one day and visit it again. There's so much to see that it's hard to take it all in and process it. And you are 100% accurate in your statement that "overwhelming is an understatement." Truly. It is.

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How are you accessing the Internet? Do they Starlink set up out there now?

@@chrisluckhardt They got GCI high speed home internet, pretty good. Leaving Adak tomorrow, but at least in Anchorage for next two days I'll get normal service on my phone. On Adak is Emergency Calls Only. Fairyland and war zone like, both in one! Such an amazing place! First time I said Scary Movie Nr 1 - The Deserted Island, waiting for zombies 🤣, 2nd time (now) I said Scary Movie Nr 2 - The Hidden Fairyland, absolutely gorgeous! 😍

@@Gabriela5YT Did you stay with Steve Carroll or Aleutian Outfitters?

Did you see the text overlays? They explained we took the route due to the armed Russian military patrols. Hiking across the desert is the only option to avoid being caught and accessing the building.

@@chrisluckhardt Okay, thanks for clearing that up. However it would be great if you could post a map of the path you took.

@@hristosmourselas3939 It’s somewhat taboo to share maps of abandoned places publicly, but I understand the curiosity!

@@chrisluckhardt Okay, fair enough, thanks anyways..

Not much was known about the Buran shuttles outside the former Soviet Union until the original orbiter was destroyed in the 2002 roof collapse.

I had no idea the theater and pool existed in the 70s! It must've been a state of the art theater in that era.

Thank you, and please check out the follow-up video when I returned in the winter of 2022/23. It’s a better video! → ua-cam.com/video/e9H0O-gxJ4Y/v-deo.html

The site I’m filming from is the abandoned $125 billion section of the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport.

@chrisluckhardt still cool regardless 😎 the other shot you have of space craft was so cool

“Ozymandias” by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

@@chrisluckhardt amazing video! I'm not usually a sappy poetic type, but the video drew that out.