Through simply reading through the top stories at yahoo.com, I stumbled upon a crop of beautifully fascinating photographs of an abandoned post office railway in London. Constructed in the 1920's, as an elaborate way to shuttle mail back and forth, this "mail rail" used intricate underground tunnels to great use. With the discovery of the mail rail, photographers jumped at the opportunity to visually document the cold, industrial-like beauty of a relic from our American past. Viewing these photos, I felt as if I was experiencing an abandoned past, ripe with disregarded potential. The photos themselves survive along with the original mail rail as pieces of a forgotten time in American history.
Link to photos: http://www.silentuk.com/?p=2792
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