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casting floor

a casting floor at bethlehem steel - then and now.

raw materials would be heated to 3000° fahrenheit in the blast furnace then emitted onto the casting floor where men in asbestos suits would manually raise and lower gates to direct the stream into railcars that waited beneath the casting floor.

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Uploaded on November 6, 2006
Taken on April 7, 2004