905 Comments for Bethlehem Steel Mill

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Dennis Hopper, the Deacon, stands up there and throws down cans of Smeat.
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Beautiful pictures which are sad and humbling at the same time. This is a great American story which obviously has a terrible ending. Remember these pictures when you buy foreign and Chinese products. Dont let them kill our great country!
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What do you suppose fell on that railing to bend it like that?
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Gallery to see. Keep up the wonderful work Motts. JackieB Where are you. JackieB are you still coming down to Florida to see me i can show you Abandoned Hotel here?
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cool
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Thanks Motts For another
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Another great video and photo. Thanks Mr. Motts.
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Great photo and thanks for the informative video. Once the man releases the lock on the slag ladles, it seems there is a delay (he is seen walking away) and then the ladles tip. Are they radio controlled perhaps? If not, what starts them tipping over?
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Beautiful shot!
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Really like the perspective on this one. : )
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Hm, perhaps the cold blast refers to the fresh air line before it's heated by the stove, and not necessarily a cold blast furnace system...
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I have actually been to this facility--when it was still in operation. That was in 1967. I always thought it was a shame to shut down such a magnificent steel mill.
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Never again will those faithful indicator lights glow their appointed colors. Melancholy...
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You pick up on the tiniest details, Motts... that's what makes you so amazing. It's the little things that just round out the whole experience. You ROCK. I mean, looking over the overwhelming enormity of this abandoned site, the utter grandiosity of the mill... you in your genius managed to capture some tiny little labels on a few valve handles. And it's perfect.

*bows to The Master*
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So, if cold blast furnaces were generally obsolete by the early 1900s, I guess this particular control box-thingie is even older than the majority of abandoned equipment at this site overall? The furnace it is tied to must have been out of use for decades before the rest of the plant ceased operating.