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Located in the Blow House at Bethlehem Steel, this is one of many compressors that made the "blast" for the blast furnaces.
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Built in 1886 at Dolcoath's New Sump Shaft, the compressor house was designed by the mine manager Captain Josiah Thomas. It housed a Harris 12" air compressor which could supply 12 underground rock drills at a pressure of 70lbs per square inch at a depth of half a mile.
This compressor sits in a dark room of an abandoned tuna cannery. The cannery was shut down after several botulism deaths were linked to it's products in the early '60's. The plant had only operated a few months. It's been abandoned now more than 40 years.
13 second exposure, shot with the little bit of available light.
There's a bit more detail in larger versions.
When I was 17, I worked in a factory for 3 years, it was the type of place where if you didn't fit in you'd get bullied.
Later, I thought about these unlikely scenarios that would take place on the shop floor. Like there was this young guy who was interested in the world (a wild fantasy) anyway he hears Desmond Tutu's speech, "...if you remain neutral during a time of injustice, then you are taking sides with the oppressor..." and it makes a big impression on him.
Alexander Barron discovered gold here in 1893. Like so many other gold strikes, word spread quickly and in 1894-95 Colonel Thomas Hart built a rough, narrow gauge wagon road into the gold fields. One stretch had to be built on planks attached to a cliff wall and is now known as Dead Horse Point. With road access in place, it was much easier to convince east coast mining investors to sink large sums of money into the operations. A sawmill was built and the logs were used for the buildings that soon became the town of Barron. Large iron boilers, engines, compressors, etc. were carefully hauled over Slate Pass (now Harts Pass) to the mines and can still be found scattered over the area. At its peak, nearly a thousand people lived here. In 1899 word spread of a gold strike up north in Alaska. The boom days of Barron were over and those not employed at the 2 or 3 main mines packed up and headed north. By 1907 most of the gold was petering out. The mines east coast owners, realizing that the mines were not profitable, shut off anymore funds that would allow operations to continue. The remaining miners quickly abandoned the area and headed north. Some were in such a hurry that they left unread mail and small amounts of canned goods, bottles of liquor and more. After being abandoned for 20 years or so, the area had a second surge of activity and several small scale operations continued to mine on and off into the 1970s.
Van Halen- Runnin' with the devil
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No Devotion (12" Version)
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Dead Can Dance - 'Anabasis'
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Compressor blades from a Rolls Royce Turbomeca Adour. This is the 17th one built and was fitted to a Jaguar.
I was up in San Francisco visiting friends. I met up with rustyjaw , TunnelBug, Dead Slow and Larry (sorry don't know your screen name) to do some exploring.
Rustyjaw suggested the location and it was great fun exploring the halls, various staircases and machinery left laying around.
Thanks guys, was greet meeting/seeing you all. We have to do that again sometime.