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Carrie Furnace - abandoned ironworks
National Historic Landmark
Carrie Furnace is a former blast furnace located along the Monongahela River in the industrial town of Rankin near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It had formed a part of the Homestead Steel Works. The Carrie Furnaces were built in the 1880s and they operated until 1982.
During its peak, the site produced 1000 to 1250 tons of iron per day. All that is left of the site are furnaces #6 and #7, which operated from 1907 - 1978.
In 1898 Carrie Furnamce was purchased by Andrew Carnegie and incorporated into U.S. Steel in 1901. In 2005 it was purchased by Allegheny County. In 2006 the two remaining furnaces were designated as a National Historic Landmark.
This looks like it could represent a tough spot in someone's life where a negative situation had taken a grip and won't let go.
Or, for us more concrete thinkers...it's a cool pic of a rusted coil :)
**OOC note**
Part of the experience of the following series will be listening along to linked music if you so desire. So you know how I feel as I'm hashing out the story ;)
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Rule 14. Always carry a change of underwear*
The sickness is spreading, the infected lurk around aimlessly looking for fresh water and plants. Flit and Dylain can hear them coughing above ground, sometimes scratching at the door. They seam to be everywhere surrounding the bunker and blocking their escape.
The girls in no way want to come into contact with the pandemic as they've experience it before - and let me tell you, they call it rust mouf for a reason - Flit shudders at the memories.
Thankfully they are currently well stocked and safe down below eating twonkies and watching golden girls reruns on an old tele and vcr Flit has rigged up.
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*Pop culture reference ZombieLand
An awesome old International truck, quietly resting in a field near the gallows at Bannack Ghost Town. This truck has a proud look, even in it's sad state of repair. A great subject for HDR
Shot this today, on Free Comic Book Day. It's the building across the street from my usual comic book shop.
Appropriately, the Stark Building (built twenty years before this one) is just a block or two away.
Explored - #94 on Thursday, August 20, 2009
An old piece of farm equipment from the Altamont Fair near Albany, NY.
3 shot handheld HDR (-2, 0, +2 EV) tonemapped in Photomatix and postprocessed in the GIMP.
A single strand of grass peeps through the rust surrounded hole in a piece of no longer used farming gear.
Probably the only image I've made containing both flight and critters. Somehow, the fact that they're all dead doesn't seem to matter.
This magnificent piece is someone else's artwork. My only contribution is the re-positioning of the "wraith" who is actually hung from a pole some distance away. It seemed to me that, via the magic of P'shop, this is where she really needs to be. Of course, her full name is Half-ton International Rust Wraith.