Walked through the old Bethlehem Steel plant in PA last month

I was on a job near the old Bethlehem Steel site in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago. I took a walk through the abandoned mill during lunch. The size of the old boilers and pressure vessels still sitting there really hit me. We work with that same kind of gear but seeing it in that old place made me realize how much things have changed in our trade. Has anyone else checked out one of those old plants and noticed something that made you think?

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fiona_johnson821d ago

...and my buddy Dave, he used to do outage work at a place like that back in the 90s. Told me once they had to climb inside one of those old boilers to fix a leak, and he said the rust was so thick it looked like a cave in there, not a piece of equipment. He said the creepiest part was how quiet it was compared to a modern plant, just the sound of his own breathing echoing off the old steel. Said it felt like he was working inside a giant tomb for machines. Kinda makes you wonder what stories those old pipes could tell if they could talk.

wood.noah22h ago

@fiona_johnson82 that cave description gives me chills, wonder if those boilers ever trapped any workers back then.