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| | | Re: Anyone explore Beth Steel back in the Day? < Reply # 14 on 3/25/2016 5:36 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Probably my favorite place, I wish I would have seen it sooner when more was accessible... Outside Industry by Dustin Gilbert, on Flickr Office-esque by Dustin Gilbert, on Flickr Elevate by Dustin Gilbert, on Flickr Outside Industry by Dustin Gilbert, on Flickr image02 by Dustin Gilbert, on Flickr Steel stacks by Dustin Gilbert, on Flickr Finding ourselves in rotten places by Dustin Gilbert, on Flickr Hello Industry by Dustin Gilbert, on Flickr Looks like the first time I went was in 2012, there were workers there so I kinda just chilled here... UÿÙ_B<¥½ÎÝw¡Éø½Â>½OI´Æ;|ÙZ9\T«þôå"Drp¥È±JæçJÔËúþµäÍÎãméã\dÔÊçÑtë$ßpãqÀÊè¤KJ×Ã|¼ÄU´¦sÎâUB 'áJÖøæ1o\ÉÅv¡ÝÏSÉüËrölHhcVXAbÔ«~aÈy5lËÈ>`°²òÕ/ïNõWDÐ2Aìvû_µ¤8wiÉŲU¨Z{÷¶¶·[2Z4*I;0ªñ 27;¥:W*]Eh?ð¼·Ñ±éqm$5IwppÚx©U|¬ËG¶¶Þ> *©üõãñ&ßÊò~I-ï\PYrào6¸Ý¹+·Óí ¶ál["ê3.î½ùáï[/url] by Dustin Gilbert, on Flickr until they went away, and continued exploring it. Avoiding the area I saw them in. Went back the next day and no one was around. It looked like where the workers had tools set up, they were dismantling parts of one of the blast furnaces.
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| | | | Re: Anyone explore Beth Steel back in the Day? < Reply # 15 on 3/25/2016 6:16 PM > | Reply with Quote
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I agree completely. The casino will not and cannot equal the economic force that was Beth Steel. But I appreciate the fact that it's still there, or what little is still there. Sands could have scrapped those furnaces to make maybe a million dollars in scrap metal - like what happens practically everywhere else. So I admire the fact that they didn't. At this point it is what it is and it certainly could have turned out worse - for the old mill and for the town of Bethlehem.
| Millions? Not for scrap steel. Demo contractors make a lot of their money from non ferrous metals and stainless. Most of the copper has been long stripped out. Asbestos is integrated into the blast furnaces in large quantities I suspect. If so a huge abatement cost for that alone. They would need to use O2 cutting lances and/or explosives to cut those massive steel furnaces with and that's not cheap to do. Without the heat of the blast furnaces and the constant maintenance when it was active, it's literally rusting into oblivion. Think of it as a living entity. The furnaces are dead and rotting now. Even 10 years ago the corrosion was widespread. Quarter inch plate decking that was paper thin. Rust never sleeps. Not sure how much money been put into preserving the blast furnaces themselves however they'll not preserving any of the miles of catwalks, decks, smaller pipes and such that made it so amazing to see and explore. A matrix of all sizes and types of pipes, conduits, and high tension electric lines. They gutted and stuffed it like a trophy deer. Eventually what little is left of it may have to be demoed. But Sands doesn't care, by then they'll have made their profit and have moved on like locusts leaving behind nothing of value. The town of Bethlehem made a pact with the devil. Seems oddly appropriate. To understand the devastating impact of the lose of large industry in the USA and the harm of globalization you need only to understand why we won WW2. Today we would lose a large scale conventional war like WW2. We be forced to use nuclear weapons because we've lost our industrial infrastructure and capacity to self reliantly produce the vast array of heavy materials and goods needed for an all out war. It would literally takes decades to ramp up to that level today. Don't forget we have also lost over 80% of our RR infrastructure as well since 1950. Without RRs we can not support large industries massive hunger for materials and transporting finished steel to assembly areas. Never say a world war won't happen again. History tells us it will. This is the inheritance we have left future generations because of greed, corruption and lack of vision on both political and business levels. Beth was doomed to die eventually, but fools killed US industrial supremacy and perhaps ultimately the USA. Beth is a sick grave marker of a dead giant.
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