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Long exposure of my son Rhys spinning steel wool set on fire at Walmesley park, (skatepark) Ince in Wigan
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]
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. Reflector camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
The only active set of original steel hoppers swings through the horseshoe curve at Fabro British Columbia. Bound for Thunder Bay Ontario, this coal set is the only one of it's kind to travel east on CP's Cranbrook Subdivision after loading north of Sparwood at Teck's Line Creek Mine.
AVR's Job 1 rolls straight through the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, named after the steel giant himself Andrew Carnegie. After a rendezvous with the NS at Island Avenue, the Allegheny Valley Railroad has three of their SD45 carbodies leading a large cut for Glenwood Yard.
Tourist #1 - "Are there more dunes?"
Tourist #2 - "Where is the state park?"
Guy with cameras - "Head east on 12 past the steel mills about 10 or so miles to route 49."
Tourist #1 - "Steel Mills??" .....
The bridge designed by Eads used steel in mass quantities on a big gamble by Carnegie as capacity to make steel in quantity didn’t exist yet in the 1870’s when the bridge was built. Steel was needed to make a sturdy bridge across the mighty Mississippi River. As the bridge opened an elephant led Saint Louisans across it to give credence to its strength. It remains solid today. The (US based) History channel is running a program called The Men Who Built America which included the construction of this bridge.
I was struck by the hardness of the steel of this plough against the soft edges of nature. Man carves out and makes tries to make nature obey him.
Yeah, I'm a Zoolander fan... LOL!
But the way the light was playing off of the lines and water drops, it has a very metallic look to me. I would love to print this on a sheet of metal or one of those Fine Art papers that uses metal in the paper. For now, I'll print it on a glossy paper and see how that looks.
Shot using the Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 Macro lens and the AT-X 1:1 extender.
Cruising at 70 mph, the Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 17 flies through Utah County along United States Steel's Geneva Works on June 20, 1977.
Over the years this spool pops out when the water rises and goes back. My boys back in the late 80's use to try to dig it up when they were little. The other day it was sticking up this much and had to take a shot of it and send to the boys. I'm sure it was a huge steel spool off a freighter that probably carried heavy cable at one time. Amazing the different days and into years what comes up and disappears. A week ago I couldn't even see it.
This steel footbridge in Sheffield, England, carries pedestrians from Park Square to Ponds Forge International Sports Centre - a modern development on the site of a former steelworks. Sheffield – aka "Steel City" – was once the steel-making capital of the world and has a rich history of technological development and expertise.
Sheffield's steel production began around the 14th century and was very small scale at first, with self-employed craftsmen making cutlery, tools and other smaller items from start to finish. By the 18th century, demand was growing fast and production needed to change to keep up. With the invention of the crucible steel process in 1742 by local manufacturer Benjamin Huntsman, production was revolutionised and Sheffield went from small township to leading European industrial city. In the 100 years that followed, its annual steel production rose from 200 tonnes to 80,000 tonnes; almost half Europe's total production.
In 1856, Henry Bessemer's converter furnace took things further, enabling mass production of cheap refined steel for railway parts, armour plating and construction. The "Bessemer boom" sent Sheffield steel global. In 1871, America was importing over three times as much rail track from Sheffield as it made domestically.
Sheffield-based chemist Harry Brearley invented stainless steel in 1912. In 1924, Dr W. H. Hatfield, from the same laboratory, created "18/8" – probably today's most commonly used stainless steel.
During both World Wars, Sheffield played a central role in arming the military, its strategic importance making it a bombing target. With men away fighting, women took over the city's steelworks, including munition production – something commemorated by Sheffield's "Women of Steel" statue, unveiled in 2016.
During the 1970s, market downturn caused several Sheffield steelworks to close. The Thatcher years had a devastating impact, with further recession, warring between government and unions, and ultimately British Steel's second and final privatisation. Sheffield lost more than 50,000 steel and engineering jobs between 1980 and 1983. The industry suffered further since the 2008 crash owing to lower demand, rising energy prices, a strong pound and China's alleged "steel dumping". Amid a flurry of high profile plant closures, Forgemasters, currently Sheffield's biggest steel employer, announced 100 redundancies from its 630-strong workforce in 2016.
These days, Sheffield's steel industry (employing around 2,600 in 2016) focuses largely on specialist trade. Despite the loss of much of the heavy engineering and large scale production, in 2005, the industry produced more steel per year by value than at any other time in its history. International buyers – particularly from the US – are still drawn to the quality and heritage of tools and cutlery made from Sheffield steel.