Steel Industry
View allAll Photos Tagged Steel
I returned to this one sculpture to unlock more of its secrets - many times I wonder if all of this was planned before hand. Many times I wonder if all we see was planned before hand...
This one is for Barbera....who has been braving the Toronto winter to bring us wonderful abstracts.
Explore #461, February 15
Related to BolTed...
Kokerei Hansa Kühlturm
Die Kokerei Hansa ist eine von 17 in den 1920er Jahren entstandenen Zentralkokereien im Ruhrgebiet. Aufgabe der Anlage war das Produzieren von Koks aus Kohle, das bei der Stahlverhüttung benötigt wird. Zu ihrer Zeit gehörte sie zu den größten und modernsten Kokereien in Europa.
The Hansa coking plant is one of 17 central coking plants that were built in the Ruhr area in the 1920s. The task of the plant was to produce coke from coal, which is required for steel smelting. At the time, it was one of the largest and most modern coking plants in Europe.
Corten steel is a weather-resistant structural steel. Its distinctive feature is that, while it does rust, it does not rust through like ordinary steel. Its special alloy forms an extremely dense barrier layer (patina) that effectively protects the underlying material from further corrosion caused by the elements.
Cortenstahl ist ein wetterfester Baustahl. Das Besondere daran ist, dass er zwar rostet, aber nicht wie gewöhnlicher Stahl durchrostet. Seine spezielle Legierung bildet eine extrem dichte Sperrschicht (Patina), die das Material im Inneren effektiv vor weiterer Korrosion durch Witterungseinflüsse schützt.
KNWA 381 sits patiently and crew-less in Pickerington, Ohio due to the crew outlawing while waiting to get into Watkins yard. The power for the train was a pair of ex-NS SD60's, which in my opinion, are some really good looking engines. A beam of light from a car's headlights at a nearby crossing helped illuminate the bridge during the exposure.
I happened to be in Stillwater on this day, and seeing the nice updates from the peeps in the field about a late transfer from the CN, I decided to take a little detour north before heading home. Managed to hike to the bridge with only about 10 minutes of waiting before this nice trio of matching SDs pulled across in perfect light.
Petronas Towers at blue hour, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Copyright © Piotr Gaborek. All rights reserved!! Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
The Bluescope Steel Works.
Port Kembla, New South Wales
This is the view looking south along Wollongong Beach from the Wollongong Head Lighthouse, on Flagstaff HIll.
Friday afternoon, 19th June, 2020.
90 minutes south of Sydney.
Samsung Galaxy S20+ mobile phone camera.
Remaining stacks of the Bethlehem Steel plant, now surrounded by a park. The lighted walkway is normally open to the public but, alas, wasn't when we were there.
Bethlehem Steel was one of the largest producers of steel in its heyday. It was founded in the mid-19th century, prospered for a while in the railroad boom, and then branched into shipbuilding, where it supplied its steel for the Navy, in particular the (in)famous USS Maine. It later went into shipbuilding business, constructing as much as 20% of the Navy fleet during World War II. The company also supplied steel for the Golden Gate bridge. Most steel production stopped in the 1980-ies and the company was dissolved in 2003. [paraphrased from Wikipedia]