1,466 Comments Posted by autoguy

Easily lose body parts, if you would still be alive to miss them. Nukes are different, but at the old school coal power plants it got simpler. When a steam leak occurs, the cloud obscures the exact point of the leak. A worker would walk slowly into the steam cloud waving a broom handle out in front of him to feel for the location of the leak.

Cool circular chart recorders.

Toasty warm in the winter time! When it was -15F outside, I bet a lot of guys wanted to warm up in that area. July? Not so much.

Hot tubs, planters, lawn ornaments. I want those in my yard!

These industrial shoots are awesome. And yeah, these operations could never stop. Once all that stuff is heated up and operating, letting it cool down is not an economical option. This documentary is fantastic:

Bethlehem Steel, The People Who Built America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTGiHOZZFU

A blast furnace is tapped at Bethlehem and the molten product directed to the numerous torpedo cars under the floor. Shows the intensity of that operation. In the early days, the clay furnace plug was blown out with explosives. Very cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbNkBOGMwg

They got a paycheck. Sad to see it come to a halt. Lost paychecks to support households.

Those things were giant belching monsters when they were blasting. Awesome stuff. Massive amounts of Bethlehem steel was used coast to coast. 68,000 tons of Bethlehem steel is in the Golden Gate bridge.

I was thinking those would make for awesome hot tubs. Don't just let them die for scrap!

Hold my beer....

Sure. A bit more won't hurt.

I think those cars were only used for the slag. The cone shape helped dump out the hardening slag. I like the word slag. Good name for a dog.

Or the site of the 37th zombie victim.

Love the massive pillow block. Some serious beef there. Moved with large cranes? Rolled off some rail ends and towed? Look close. It might be still on tracks that are filled in with dirt.

Hold my beer.....