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Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. General view showing tank which stores gas from the coke oven. Square building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to a feeder belt and then transferred to a storage place

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  • Shaun C. Williams said:
    This is beautiful! It's so nice to see a color picture(!) of this facility, looking all clean and well-maintained in its heyday.
  • Chris Smart said:
    these need to be added to the flickr map
  • vixengal said:
    Let me correct peaceocake's comment. The company which was bought by a Russian firm was Rouge Steel, originally part of Ford Motor Company, and is approximately 3 miles from this facility. It's now Severstal Steel. Great Lakes Steel (pictured) was in bankruptcy when it was bought by US Steel in 2003, and now known as the "Great Lakes Works". The plant is currently in operation, with many of the same employees. This photo shows a portion of the ironmaking facility, located on Zug Island. The gas holder was torn down years ago.
  • BISassistant said:
    My dad worked at Great Lakes Steel from sometime in the 1950's to about early 1970's. He was hurt in an explosion there on Memorial Day, 1972. I have looked everywhere on the internet for info on that explosion and cannot find anything. Does anyone remember that explosion and have any info on it? Thanks.

C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • Daniel Bayona said:
    awesome!
  • Flawless Rhythm said:
    I can smell the coal and cinders.. phew! It's a wonder anyone survived all that smoke in the air. I remember what the city of Chicago used to smell like in the 1950's. Every morning there was a fresh dusting of soot and coal ash on the windowsill.
  • Elijah said:
    The soot filled air makes for a nice photo, though.

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  • mennis77 said:
    The trains and windows create great leading lines into the picture and make it seem less 2D and more like you're actually there by drawing you in. Also the soot makes it so that the color of the air is never the same color in more than one place and the color gradually changes in any direction you look. I love that this is in color! If it were in black and white however, it would represent the different zones of black and white perfectly.
  • acaifoto. said:
    rely love the colour

TVA chemical plant, electric furnace loaded with phosphate, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (LOC)

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