You Don't Know What You've Got Till its Gone
What was meant to be just a test shot to see how my new camera would handle high ISO situations turned out to be the last shot I'd get of the intact Crunden Martin Buildings in Downtown St. Louis.
Just about 4 weeks later, early on the morning of November 28th, 2025 a massive 5 alarm fire broke out at the complex causing catastrophic and irreversible damage to many of the buildings that were still standing of this historic complex of warehouses that stands less than 1,000ft from the grounds of the Gateway Arch. It took around 200 firefighters from the City of St. Louis and surrounding suburbs to control the blaze but by daybreak the extent of the blaze was apparent. Many of the walls of the early 1900s built brick buildings lay in ruin. Bricks from the walls were scattered in smoldering piles of rumble on the streets below and fire fighters reminded on site for days putting out the remaining hotspots. What once stood as a reminder of St. Louis' industrial might at the start of the 20th century lay in ruins.
You don't know what you've got till its gone.
UP train MSLSLB-01 pulls tonnage up and out of Union Pacific's Lesperance Street Yard passing the still in tact Crunden Martin Buildings on the Poplar Street Wye.
You Don't Know What You've Got Till its Gone
What was meant to be just a test shot to see how my new camera would handle high ISO situations turned out to be the last shot I'd get of the intact Crunden Martin Buildings in Downtown St. Louis.
Just about 4 weeks later, early on the morning of November 28th, 2025 a massive 5 alarm fire broke out at the complex causing catastrophic and irreversible damage to many of the buildings that were still standing of this historic complex of warehouses that stands less than 1,000ft from the grounds of the Gateway Arch. It took around 200 firefighters from the City of St. Louis and surrounding suburbs to control the blaze but by daybreak the extent of the blaze was apparent. Many of the walls of the early 1900s built brick buildings lay in ruin. Bricks from the walls were scattered in smoldering piles of rumble on the streets below and fire fighters reminded on site for days putting out the remaining hotspots. What once stood as a reminder of St. Louis' industrial might at the start of the 20th century lay in ruins.
You don't know what you've got till its gone.
UP train MSLSLB-01 pulls tonnage up and out of Union Pacific's Lesperance Street Yard passing the still in tact Crunden Martin Buildings on the Poplar Street Wye.