Slag weed
A weed grows out of an old ladle in Troy, N.Y.
This is outside the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway's museum on the grounds of the old Burden Iron Works. The director tells me it the ladle was used for molten slag back in the day. Now it's a massive planter.
The museum is an interesting look at the area's industrial heritage. Unfortunately for Troy, once one of the wealthiest places in the nation, it's mostly in the past tense -- most of the industry is gone.
This slag ladle and a few other big relics sit and rust. There is however a superbly preserved ladle car, a massive cauldron sitting on a railroad car chassis ... a great-lloking hunk of metal.
Slag weed
A weed grows out of an old ladle in Troy, N.Y.
This is outside the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway's museum on the grounds of the old Burden Iron Works. The director tells me it the ladle was used for molten slag back in the day. Now it's a massive planter.
The museum is an interesting look at the area's industrial heritage. Unfortunately for Troy, once one of the wealthiest places in the nation, it's mostly in the past tense -- most of the industry is gone.
This slag ladle and a few other big relics sit and rust. There is however a superbly preserved ladle car, a massive cauldron sitting on a railroad car chassis ... a great-lloking hunk of metal.