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The stock house, standing near the #7 skip, and looking towards the #6 skip, which is barely visible in the distance near the end of the stock house.

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Bottom of the 'skip', a hoist used to transport materials — mainly coke, iron ore, and limestone — to the...

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Lower level of the "stock house". On the upper level, railroad cars filled with ore and...

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A torpedo car, used for transporting molten pig iron to the steel mills. The grey material near the car...

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Furnace, viewed from the marshalling yard level. Torpedo cars (two per pour) would be placed on this...

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Refractory-brick floor near the bottom of the furnace.

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Runners, down which the molten iron would flow on its way to the torpedo cars. The torpedo cars were...

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Base of one of the two remaining furnaces. The furnace walls at this level are over ten feet thick, lined...

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Passageway between two stoves in the foreground, with more in the background. According to...

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Hand-operated valve near the hot stoves. The plant was last overhauled in the 1930s, and is operated...

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Looking up along one of the hot stoves, where furnace gases (primarily carbon monoxide) were burned to preheat the incoming air.

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A piece of switchgear dangles from rigid conduit.

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In the Blowing House.

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The office is still filled with paperwork from the time the plant ceased operations, in the late 1970s.

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Furniture left inside an office in the blowing house.

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