273 Comments for Carrie Blast Furnace

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Thanks steel worker!
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bleeder valve
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Hoist House
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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
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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
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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.
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92 feet is about 30 meters
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Great pictures. .
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I can only imagine how hot it was between these stoves in summer...
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Went inside the dark oval kinda dusty hehe
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Just went here yesterday got told to leave before we really got inside aparently they are doing tours on Saturdays defiantly coming back. Just got a glimpse of the deer head
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nice work!
it looks like there is a child in the mouth...
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Rhymes with Bagina ({}) :-P
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An amazing site and photos! The site is being renovated now to be used for at-centric purposes and the real story of its creation is now a documentary and public info. I haven't found many works like this at abandoned sites and never a story of a 40' art work built entirely by hand (no welds, just metal twist-ties) from site materials by artists aged 19-25yrs. Built clandestinely in a year of Sundays from 1997-1998. The details: http://www.thecarriedeer.com
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Too cool. Based on what I've gathered about the operation of these things, I think the black stuff is coke, and this thing rotated to accept the feed stock & flux.