Looking into the coke batteries in the extant oven… chunks of coke are still hanging from the inner walls, despite the exterior’s wrecking ball pummeling.
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The great entrance to the Service Building shows the detail once present in the old hospital.
Blast Furnace 7 as seen from the ore yard. Imagine running up those stairs through blast furnace smoke.
Beds line a basement room that is part way between the concepts of inside and outside. Boards and bricks were falling while I was photographing it—stay out.
Hard to find your seat when it doesn’t know its own name.
These copulas made the iron for casting.
A series of interconnected offices that look like they hadn’t been painted in 40 years.
The working end of the blast furnace, where molten metal would flow like lava out of the furnace… a process called ‘tapping’.
I love this original brick archway, near the narrow gauge shop. Gorgeous!
I loved to spend time in the Hamm’s caves in my teen years. It was cold, wet, but it felt familiar and had its share of surprises.