905 Comments for Bethlehem Steel Mill

Thanks for the travel tip, Motts. A couple new places to put on my ever expanding list. I drove through Saarbrucken on a road trip in the winter on 1991. Alas it was late at night and I was completely unaware of the iron works.

Cool vid! Thanks Autoguy!

Oh I can see, I just don't want to fall IN!!!

Its Ok, I have PLENTY of gas!!

Well at least they're doing THAT....Thanks Motts!

based on that handle whatever they moved with it stuck out the front side a way.

My very first job as a steamfitter apprentice was on a nuclear plant removing the Y on top of the turbine with much larger bolts. They too a couple days to get them loose and off. Another day rigging the Y and another to move it.

Every year my siblings and I say that we won't do so much and every year we end up spending more. This past Christmas I lucked out. I was going through stuff in my basement and I came across old recordings my father made. Several were actually recorded on a wire recorder in 1954 and then in the mid 1970s he transferred them to cassette tape. So I transferred them to CDs and gave them to family members with a little history of what they were and when they were recorded. One recording was my sisters 4th birthday party, she's in her late 60s now. The other was Thanksgiving 1954 and one from Thanksgiving in the 1970s. It was a bit eerie hearing my long gone parents and other relatives talking again, but it sure brought back some wonderful memories. I turned these into presents of three CDs and they were all well received. Sometimes the best presents are when you give of yourself, make something or bring back some good family memories.

Nice detective work!

@Tony C. yep they're keeping the blast furnaces and very select few buildings, as far as I know.

Thanks all!! :)

Yes, I believe the older method of casting was done right on the floor, where the iron was guided into a sand-lined runner that branched off into rectangles; the formation kind of looked like piglets feeding from their mother, and so the runner was called a "sow" and the iron blocks as "pig iron."

That's what I had always thought, but the recess seems too shallow to accommodate the diameter of the piston center and shaft... but perhaps there were some extra blocks laying around somewhere...

@Rumble thanks for that AND all the excellent technical information!

You're right autoguy, there's a shadow of a rail underneath all that crap on the floor.