583 Comments Posted by Rekrats

The glasses they gave me in Air Force basic training looked a lot like that, except the lenses were thicker.

This is quite a find!! That's what I love about you, Motts - you don't miss the details. So many people would have overlooked this small, seemingly inconsequential memento of the departed humanity in this gigantic structure. Not only did you find it, but you saw the photogenic potential as well.

This sign would have been appropriate on my husband's bedroom door. WHEW!

I can picture a new, nervous young steel worker getting LOST in this enormous place!!!

Beautiful in its silent desolation.

Ian, you are super awesome!!!

My kids (and me) are LOVING these videos along with the usual amazing photography!

OMG!!! Awesome!!!!

Never again will those faithful indicator lights glow their appointed colors. Melancholy...

You pick up on the tiniest details, Motts... that's what makes you so amazing. It's the little things that just round out the whole experience. You ROCK. I mean, looking over the overwhelming enormity of this abandoned site, the utter grandiosity of the mill... you in your genius managed to capture some tiny little labels on a few valve handles. And it's perfect.

*bows to The Master*

So, if cold blast furnaces were generally obsolete by the early 1900s, I guess this particular control box-thingie is even older than the majority of abandoned equipment at this site overall? The furnace it is tied to must have been out of use for decades before the rest of the plant ceased operating.

Outstanding shot!

Hard to imagine something that could produce such incredible, intense heat is now so utterly cold and deathly silent. Awesome!

I could almost cry, knowing there will be no more imagery from this brilliant work of architectural art. Thank you, so very much, Motts, for this incredible gallery by which to remember this staid, gorgeous Kirkbride.

AAACH! I had no idea Motts had a deviantArt. Cooooool.