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High Line

High Line

The next three set of tanks on the left are Cowper hot blast stoves, where gas byproduct from the furnace is burned and used to heat the cold fresh air entering back into the furnace. This air travels through the hot blast main, which I believe is the giant pipe that runs along the tracks.
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The lighting and colors are fantastic. Appreciate your explanations too...make it much easier to see what all of this is!
TootUncommon
Fri 11-05-2010
Looks a little like a WWI era Battleship skyline..
Binky
Fri 11-05-2010
Could pass for an ocean going vessel if not for the electric poles
Ferdy
Sat 11-06-2010
It does resemble somewhat the superstructure of an old
pre WW2 battleship.
Your descriptions are a highlight to this gallery Motts.
A D Nilsen
Sat 11-06-2010
The mother of all pipe organs
Juno
Wed 11-10-2010
Hard to imagine something that could produce such incredible, intense heat is now so utterly cold and deathly silent. Awesome!
Rekrats
Fri 11-12-2010
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.
gulliver foyle
Fri 11-12-2010
They should turn whats left into a museum, like what theyre thinking of doing with the Carrie Furnace in Pittsburgh/Rankin, PA.
Shane
Sat 11-27-2010
A lot of engineering went into building this in a time before computer aided design.
Larry D
Sun 12-19-2010

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