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Pearson
Location: Chicagoland/Sometimes Austin Total Likes: 472 likes
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
| | | | Republic Steel - Thomas Coke Works/Byproducts Plant < on 3/23/2022 11:40 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I haven't done one of these writeups on here in years but I miss making them. On a recent trip to Alabama with Sheavy and Mookster we visited what remains of the old Republic Steel mill in Birmingham. This place is about as good as it gets, loads of ancient machinery and other things about. Republic steel started operations in Birmingham in 1888 and continued up until 1972. The blast furnaces, rolling mills, and other steelmaking buildings have been demolished for years. Fortunately, the massive coke battery, blower house, boiler house, power plant, and a handful of other buildings still remain. 50 years of abandonment has not treated this place well, most buildings truly fit the definition of a death trap. Alas, here are the photos. Starting off with the coke battery/byproducts plant, built in 1925: DSC_5673 by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5661 by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5677-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5655-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr On to the blower house, complete with a set of Harrisburg blower engines and an Ingersoll-Rand compressor: DSC_5631-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5627-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5650 by pearson, on Flickr Then the boiler house, I took very few photos in here. This was the deathtrappiest of all the buildings on the property: DSC_5694-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr Finally, the power plant. This was probably my favorite, it was equipped with three General Electric turbines at one point. Only one remains completely intact, one was completely removed and the other was stripped: DSC_5698-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5717-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5703-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5707-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5719 by pearson, on Flickr Here are some other miscellaneous photos around the property: DSC_5688 by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5686-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5682-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr DSC_5678-Enhanced by pearson, on Flickr All in all, this place was absolutely phenomenal. We spent somewhere around 8 hours on the property. These photos definitely aren't my best work by any means, this place was very tough to shoot for the most part with lots of difficult lighting situations and tight spaces. But, I had a great time shooting it and wanted to share here.
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| Pearson
Location: Chicagoland/Sometimes Austin Total Likes: 472 likes
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
| | | | Re: Republic Steel - Thomas Coke Works/Byproducts Plant < Reply # 10 on 4/4/2022 6:51 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I can't believe I went right up to the top floor of the boiler house. Sketchiest industrial building I've ever set foot in. Top set, and what a way to finish off my trip to the States | Yeah, I can't either... Thanks! This looks like a fun place. Great shots! |
Definitely was for sure, thank you! nice work with the Best Southern Explorer of All time!! The Gods favor him even tho he wont give Bandcamp a goddammed dime!!!!!
| He lives up to your legend.. Thanks man Really great place! I think one of the buildings got demoed in the last decade. It's super sketchy at the tops of everything. Just waiting for it to collapse, yikes. | What mookster said is completely correct, there is a way up to the top, but things were actively falling when I tried to traverse it. Not for me! Dope place, that IR compressor is really cool. Seems like an awesome adventure and nicely photographed.
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I really loved that compressor too, appreciate the kind words
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