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I always follow the code of taking nothing but photos, but I think I would make an exception here for a label and one of those beer mats.

I posted looking for the Tug Boat Beaver out of Staten Island ny capt Connie V Esmark Anyone out there know anything of the beaver or Connie? I worked for him when I was 16 out of Mariners Harbor old Betlehem steel yard 1967 Ha d afellow email back years ago that knew of Capt Esmark Cove Towing co. staten island. Also I was told he had a dregeing co out of Texas my new email is wcm112233@gmail.com

This is the most spectacular photograph.
It is as if, in this moment...I am standing...Here.

Great shot in a wonderful gallery. It looks lie the penultimate globe is lit.

This was probably a shop area or maybe a scrap pile when the plant closed. It all looks like very heavy stuff that one would not move unless you had to.

It's amazing that the bulbs are not broken yet.

I didn't live that far from this place and never knew it existed.

Dennis or Edward?

The pump don't work because the vandal took the handle.

-Bob Dylan

Thanks! Still seems to be there, although it was just purchased for $3.26 million in hopes to re-open it.

hey awsome pics im pretty sure that they demolished the park from what i read but i could be wrong anyway you have amazing pics of abandoned places on your site

Thanks! If you've got a car, seems like there might be some interesting industrial remnants along the Monongahela River - there's a road that follows it south out of the city. There's also Bethlehem Steel Mill, about a 5hr ride from Pittsburgh; by far the most impressive steel mill I've seen. http://opacity.us/site...lehem_steel_mill.htm

Glad you got a chair in there

An amazing gallery. Blast furnaces are what led me to find this site about 3 weeks ago. I was bored and did an image search for blast furnaces and found this. Have been commenting for a week or so.

I am also an photographer and urban explored, been doing both since the early 80's. Fell in love w/ blast furnaces when I discovered the book by the same name by Bernd and Hilla Becher, it is out of print and very difficult to find. They have many other books of industrial photography, I have 90% of them. Love the site, love exploring it.

Wish we had more urb ex in Colorado. Everything here gets torn down or re-purposed. Now I am making plans to visit Pittsburgh to see this site

Those are dampers to control the temp or otherwise vent the furnace. Slag and other particles would be carried up w/ the super heated air. It is probably a good growth medium for plants.