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Weeds

Weeds

A look at the last furnace on the line. Here one can see the inclined skip bridge, which was a hoist system that pulled a skip car full of raw materials from the rail line and up to the top of the furnace where it would be dumped in at a precise rate.
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Wow what a setup.
TootUncommon
Fri 11-05-2010
Incredible colors of rust and steel and love the bluish tone of the weeds.
LucieLou
Fri 11-05-2010
Like a silent giant.
It would have been great to see this facility in action.
A D Nilsen
Sat 11-06-2010
Making steel, one of mans oldest arts. Beautyful photo.
Juno
Wed 11-10-2010
what a wonderful gallery Motts. Have i ever mentioned how much i love your work? i live close to here, and it is a well known place in my family... sad to see all of these magnificant places left to ruin... i suppose it will all be like that one day, will it not?
Bobby
Tue 03-08-2011

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