|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 1
Every Sunday for a year and a half, starting in October 1997, a group of Pittsburgh metal artists sneaked into the abandoned Carrie Furnace site, along with their tools and equipment. They used materials found on site to create a 45' tall deer head. The group - Industrial Arts Collective - is currently working on a large scale sculpture on the former Jones and Laughlin and LTV mill sites, on the South Side of Pittsburgh. More projects by IAC: http://www.geocities.com/~js_iac/pages/site_work/site_projects.html http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=5641 More Gigapans and information about Carrie Furnace: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/36933/ exterior http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/36914/ furnace & pouring house |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is a gigapan I took from the Rankin Bridge of Braddock, PA. It was taken right before the torrential downpour that flooded Millvalle and reportedly produced a tornado that touched down in downtown Pittsburgh. The before-the-rain-haze might not make such a good photo, huh?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The tall structure with ramp, closest to the camera is Blast Furnace No. 6, and the one at left, beyond the tanks is No. 7.
The red gantry crane at right was used to manage the huge piles of coke, iron ore, and limestone between the furnaces and the river (at far left & far right in this 360 degree view), and feed them into the blast furnaces. For background on blast furnaces, see http://www.theweebsite.com/trains/blast-furnace.html If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is the cast house of Carrie Furnace blast furnace number 6. In the floor are the channels or "runners" through which molten iron flowed. Sluice gates (is that the right terminology?) were used to control the flow. The iron poured directly into "torpedo" rail cars parked below this floor, for transport across the Monongahela River to Homestead Works where the iron was refined into steel and rolled into beams and sheet steel. Slag was skimmed off the top of the molten iron here in the cast house and diverted via slag runners into "slag pot" rail cars, also parked below this floor, for disposal.
An explanation of how a blast furnace works: http://www.theweebsite.com/trains/blast-furnace.html Thanks to Randy Sargent for help setting this up. If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. Photographic note: perhaps the lens flare was caused by dust on the lens; I should have cleaned it. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inside the AC Power House of the abandoned Carrie Furnace, Rankin, PA.
Thanks to Randy Sargent for help setting this up. If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks to Randy Sargent for help setting this up.
If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This panorama is best viewed in Google Earth, where the tops of the tanks will look less distorted. If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is the Rankin Bridge - really due for a check-up. In fact, it's being done now. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Every third Saturday in August the community of Rankin, PA, 8 miles out of Pittsburgh up the Monongahela River, everyone steps up and celebrates the day with a parade, concerts by local musicians, art show, food, contests, and food.
http://www.rankinborough.com/ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is a closer-up view of the Rankin Bridge near Pittsburgh. It's scheduled for rehabilitation in March 2008. It really needs fixed, as we say.
See if can find any places in the structure that the engineers will say have to be replaced. Snapshot it, compare with the actual job in a later gigapanorama. |