905 Comments for Bethlehem Steel Mill

The "rainbowed" rust is cool, too.

Unbelievable how BIG this place is. Great shot! Thanks for the new set BTW Mr. Motts!

Can you just imagine the deafening grunts and groans of this machinery on the day they pulled the switches forever.

An Animal with long eyelashes, lol.

I think Warp Speed is out of the question! :) Great Photo!

Probably an overseas entity is quietly waiting in line to purchase such mills as to scrap all the metals for melt down to make steel for sale.

An entire city 's security grew around the operations of these mills. But now a ghost of the past.

So sad to see our past industrial greatness in an eternal sleep.

I made a comment on a previous picture about a steel 3, now here's a steel five. Question answered!

Great picture Motts! @ thanks for the interesting video!

Binky,
They do preheat the inside of the cars with a gas torch before filling, not only to help keep the tep of the steel where it needs to be, but to avoid damaging the car. These cars are lined with fire brick, similar to whats inside a furnace, or a locomotive firebox. The bricks prevent the molten metal from burning through the sides of the car, but if they just dumped 2900 degree molten steel in the car the bricks would shatter from the thermal shock. And satiria, yes, that is a spray painted number three. These cars don't require all of the regular data on other railroad cars, since they don't ever leave the steel mill property and never enter interchange service.
I am a model railroader and I am building a model of a steel mill, and as a result, I have done all sorts of research into steel mill rail operations and its related equipment.

Oh Wow! Looming Lighting! Sweet :)

A loom effect of piping>Cool!

Absolutely Awesome! These call out to me almost as bad as Bubble Wrap!

I said, That looks like 2 phones, and i scrolled down, and saw Toots comment> hahahha!