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Missant Trucking, Hamtramck

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 In Hamtramck, near Factory Zero and the detention center and recycling center, is a medium sized abandoned foundry building in a triangular nook. The entire area where the old roads were is fenced off today, but you can easily get in. Inmates can shout through the windows too, making it a bit different. This building is called the Missant Trucking Company, but was called Swedish Crucible Steel Co. before it switched hands. The first room you can get in is completely soaked, probably due to some different roofing that doesn't last as long as the other building space. Factories neatly arrange pipes and conduits for organization. I have a feeling this pool had to do with a sort of machine. Today it is an uncomfortable shade of green. If this used to be a forge, I'm sure this space was for the furnaces. A popular product of now old and defunct Northern Crane Co of Detroit was the gantry crane. In 2018 I assume some crew went through here and took down a large piece that covered th

Packard Plant, Detroit

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 As well as going to the Fisher Body Plant, a stop was made at the now crumbling Packard Plant. I wish I could've entered back in the 2000s before people tore it apart. A lot is missing that should be here. The bridges. The buildings. The administration rooms looks barren. I regret not exploring it earlier. The view through the tunnel the northern end of the complex. On south end, the five-story art-deco building on the right was demolished in 2019 I started exploring the south side first,  there used to be another building here on this grassy part at the south end that was torn down, to be honest almost nothing was left of it anyway, due to most of the building being metal supported, scrappers easily wrecked it, There were a few of these concrete rooms on the bottom floor at the far south end. And a few pitch- black rooms. You had to walk around a lot of junk to get to the first, now empty court. It all looks just ready to fall apart at any second, yet due to Albert Kahn's des