First of all thanks for the nice comments. I do tend to mix b&w with color a lot. No rhyme or reason as to what I pick for what. Its usually whatever I feel looks better, though I do get on all black and white kicks sometimes. Yeah the furnace was built in 1906 and operated starting in 1907 and ran until the 80s. The secondary structures may be newer, but I rather doubt it. There were 7 furnaces here at once point, but only 2 remain, #6 and #7. This was also just an auxilliary to the larger homestead works across the river. That was the site of the homestead strike. These pictures dont do justice to how massive these mills once were. Pittsburgh was once described as "hell with the lid open" and older pictures from previous to WWII (before pollution controls) certainly attest to that. Carrie furnace has a wikipedia page for those that are interested. Also my friend robert ruschak was one of the premier mill photographers from when they were operating. His work is amazing! Google him, his website is worth several visits.
[email protected] wrote: >Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here is what remains of Carrie Furnace. Units 6 and 7 are all that >> they left standing. This portion of the mill was built in 1906 and >> gives a good example of of what early steel mills looked like. > >Wonderful work but are you sure the furnace is that old? Looks more >like >1930's to me. > >Anyway, great stuff. Pity it's so far away from here... > >Ralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
