The Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company (TCI) was founded in Tennessee in 1852. After moving to Birmingham through an 1886 merger, TCI President Enoch Ensley envisioned building a steel empire. TCI was on the verge of becoming one of the most significant iron and steel companies in the United States. The Central Alabama area is one of the few …

The Joliet Iron and Steel Works Mill was an abandoned steel mill that has been preserved as a historic site by the Forest Preserve District of Will County, Illinois. The 52-acre Joliet Iron Works Historic Site was acquired between 1991 and 1997. The preserve is part of the Des Plaines River preservation system, which conserves more than 2,400 ...

The industrial heart of the Rust Belt is western Pennsylvania as once-mighty steel mills, coke plans, and machine shops, scattered alongside railroads, rivers, and highways, have downsized and closed. A globalized economy and increased automation led many jobs overseas; what remained was a shell, unable to be self-sustaining without government ...

Volklinger Ironworks. Originally built in 1873 for steel production, the plant was soon converted into an iron-smelter for the production of liquid pig iron. Pig iron is the major ingredient used to create steel. For over 100 years it produced molten iron that was shipped via rail car to steel mills where it was then forged into steel beams.

These Incredible Photos Of An Abandoned Steel Mill Reveal The Ins and Outs Of a Once Productive Factory, Now Left To Rust For Eternity …

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA: STRIKING pictures have revealed the abandoned shell of a building that once housed a prominent steel mill. The stunning shots were taken by an American urban explorer known as Abandoned Southeast at Ensley Steel Works in Birmingham, Alabama. Abandoned Southeast / mediadrumworld Abandoned Steel By Mark McConville

I will be conduction locations scouts to unknown places with legends that precede them. I have never been to Pittsburgh and am looking for an abandoned steel mill or old abandoned warehouse to shoot a part of my movie in, and would love the input of local residents with knowledge of the town.

The city of Gary in Indiana, USA was once a prosperous steel town but overseas competition and restructuring of the industry led to population loss of 55% since its peak in the 1960s. Much of the city lies abandoned and it faces huge social problems such as poverty and ghettoization. It is estimated that a third of all properties in the city are unoccupied.

Youngstown. Youngstown, Ohio is the county seat of Mahoning County and is named for John Young, an early settler from New York. The city prospered for decades under heavy industrialization, chiefly steel mills. Closure of the mills in the 1970s led to major population losses and a sharp increase in poverty.

Opening in 1972 the steelworks in Sheerness incorporated steel production furnaces and a large rolling mill. The site closed in 2012. Visited March 2015 Sheerness, Kent, UK Abandoned

Abandoned Pittsburgh. Pittsburghers are slow to give up their ghosts. Rusted skeletons of steel mills and rail depots line the rivers, corroded reminders of a city's past forged in steel. Churches built in the 19th century by devout East European immigrants now stand desanctified and decayed. For me, it's not enough to just pass by these ...

At its peak in 1910, the steel industry in Pittsburgh produced more than 60% of the total production in the US. The peak period of production at Carrie Blast Furnace was in the 1950s and 1960s, when the seven blast furnaces here were each producing 1,250 tons of iron ore every day. During the 71 years of operation, changes were made to the ...

This Abandoned Aging Relic of The Pennsylvania Steel Industry Is Still Stunning. Pennsylvania, located in the heart of America's Rust Belt, takes pride in a strong industrial past: the steel industry, in particular, is a vital part of our history and culture.

Abandoned steel mill in Pennsylvania. Close. 604. Posted by 2 days ago. Abandoned steel mill in Pennsylvania. 1/9. 29 comments. share. save. hide. report. 99% Upvoted. Log in or sign up to leave a comment. Log In Sign Up. Sort by: best. level 1 · 2 days ago. Looks like the steel sticks in Bethlehem. 23. Reply. Share. Report Save Follow. level ...

Demolished in 2013, the loss of the Bethlehem Steel administration building was a stunning blow to preservation efforts in Lackawanna, NY. Inside the Beaux Arts beauty, despite collapsing floors and staircases, many vestiges remained of what was once the nerve center for over 40,000 workers that were employed there. By Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America

Abandoned Steel Mill in Hokkaido, Japan. This was their flagship plant in Hokkaido, Japan, with furnaces dating as far back as the 1960s. The property is now abandoned, and while some of the structures have been destroyed the remains of equipment will be housed in several of the buildings.

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Abandoned steel mills are a reminder of our lost industrial past. What were once giant hubs of production, generating construction steel to build the cities around us, now stand eerily still. These are the stories behind some of the largest steel mills in the world that are now shells of their former selves.

Abandoned Steel. By Mark McConville. STRIKING pictures have revealed the abandoned shell of a building that once housed a prominent steel mill. Abandoned Southeast / mediadrumworld The haunting images show …

This building had been abandoned for many years. These photographers sneak into abandoned Japanese Steel Mill and capture the work process that the walls were once filled with. They paint a picture of a once-thriving beautiful structure and its slow decay back to the earth. From the building, there is a bridge with a railway and track development.

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