905 Comments for Bethlehem Steel Mill

wow, seeing your photo's bring me back to my childhood.. I can't belive it's gone what a waste..

...that's terrible.
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The cylinder of one of the Tod blower engines. Very efficient design, using a closed loop by burning the waste furnace gas in the engines that are compressing the air for the furnaces. Unbelievable photography once again, Mr. Motts thank you for documenting and preserving the industry that won our wars and built the country.

Thank You for sharing your artistic camera eyes with us for free! I felt like I took the "walk-through" of this historic site with each frame. My husband's family had various employee's at this mega-monster-producing facility, at multiple stages in time. I have seen it's name documented repeatedly in various genealogy documentation. Now I will add your link to our family tree on ancestry.com for others to enjoy their own journey thru these haunting silent hallows. Your photos are awesome!

I thought Buddy Holly died in 1959...how di his glasses end up here?

You should come back to check it out, it's been made into an outdoor musical venue.

Best shot ever, which is tough to say in my favorite project of Motts' among all of the other awesomeness. Something insanely powerful, using and developing immense temperatures and pressures, yet so refined and revered by her operators. Perfect industrial imagery from when skilled tradesmen were skilled tradesmen.

Mott's, I must say that while the imagery you have provided all your loyal viewers is simply the best, your titles and captions lend a certain beautiful, and eerie, "feel" to every one of your projects. Outstanding work. I know I am not the only one to while away hours at a time "exploring" with you! This is far beyond your standard urbex.

For sure - in this video, the audio is kinda crummy, but you can get a sense of the noise. Sounds pretty great about 7 minutes in. https://www.youtube.co...yPBQ&feature=related

I would give ANYTHING to hear those 12 monsters all running at once.

Thanks for the correction and clarification!

Homer Research was located on what is now Lehigh University's Mountaintop Campus. They had scaled down furnaces and a rolling mill up there!

Thank you for allowing me to revisit these places. What a pity so much more of this plant was lost forever. The Basic Oxygen Furnaces were state-of-the-art in their day, and are long gone. While visiting Vienna four years ago, I saw one in their Technical Museum. It was quite thrilling to see!

I remember walking through this building while the plant was still in operation. It was beautiful! So many shiny brass fittings, huge flywheels and linkages, ceramic tiles, and on such a grand scale! It's rather sad to see these places in a state of decay.

Videos are great to watch. Thank you!