271 Comments for Acme Coke Plant

need to destroyrt all side this its made devil home

Wow... great shots even if you are not impressed with them. I live about 12 miles from this place and never even knew it, Where did you park/enter? I need to take my camera out there, and SOON!

While I agree that the grey sky is photographically undesirable (as some viewers pointed out), the negation of sky color makes the urban architecture appear very monolithic; but I enjoy the sense of powerful, foreboding ruin.

Love it. My fiance works for a railroad that has tracks right behind this and he drives through here every week to get to the access point.

The gas was drawn thru large exhauster fans into a refinery like processing plant where tars, oils, napthalene, benzene, and other chemicals and dyes were extracted and sold. The 'cleaned' coke oven gas was then used to fire the ovens again, or used to supplement natural gas elsewhere in the steel mill, or even mixed with natural gas and distributed throughout the city. Coke Oven Gas has a btu value about half that of natural gas.

Claudia, I believe the name you are looking for is Hulett.

www.clevelandmemory.org/glihc/hulett/index.htm

These were automatic ore unloaders.

I believe it stands for (pi r squared) pi r squared is the formula for solving the area of a circle. Part of an old rhyme , I think.

The scrappers are retarded, some of the old machines that they destroy for the copper wire are actually worth 400 times their weight in copper. I've found one such sad machine in an old house that I explored once, but now I'm just rambling...

what's a pie control, Glen?

possibly a bit like an oil refinery. Still plenty of those...Granite City near the Mississippi, for instance. (coal and oil industries seem as filthy as anything in the Industrial Revolution to me)

throwin' a switch.

copper-insulated wire tends to be a scrap salvager magnet.

stack/conveyor housing "K"

yep, reminds me of something I'd see near an overhead electric rail line.

interesting how it's a wooden tower, yet apparently didn't get damaged much at all from the water vapor.