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[Evergrey]

Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

HOLY GEES! That's lots and lots of CO2 right there! And I love the look of industry! It's very intricate and cool looking. But I hate the contamination.
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it would be nice if we could all become coffee/software economies... but there's still a market in this world for real tangible "STUFF"

[Aleks]

Originally Posted by SteelTown

The coloured smokestacks are from National Steel Car, they make rail cars. I know a person whose husband works there and told me why for those coloured stacks.

The painter asked the company what particular colour that they wish to paint the smokestacks and they didn't care. So the painter who is gay decided to use the colour of the rainbow. Interesting story huh?! lol

Nice job flar!


This factory, Rheem, is closing soon (or is it already closed?). Guess why? It's a familiar story in USA.....opening up a factory in Mexico instead.

Haha. That's a weird way of painting your long, thick, rough chimneys. As for the Mexicans, as long as they make out good it's ok. But I should probably do something seeing how I was born in Mexico.

Originally Posted by Evergrey

it would be nice if we could all become coffee/software economies... but there's still a market in this world for real tangible "STUFF"

I love coffee. But I love tea more. And I love software. I'm not too technological but I have a few gadgets here and there. Plus I live in Seattle.

[jodelli]

If I may:

200 miles west

jodelli

[flar]

^^what plant is that Jodelli?

Originally Posted by Evergrey

whoa... you mean you still make stuff up there?

They still make some stuff, but thousands of jobs are lost every year. I think capital is more mobile in the US so industrial decline happened earlier and faster there. In Hamilton the industrial decline has been slow and steady for decades, there are lots of working factories but there are also tons of empty factories.

[niwell]

WOW. This is like, the best thread ever. Serious.

[boden]

Nice work flar...as always!

[Canasian]

Hamilton's tourist board should hire you as a photographer. Seriously.
Fanatastic, as usual,flar!

[Jibba]

Awesome thread. You have a knack for capturing very crisp, provocative photos.

[shappy]

truly wonderful photos, flar! Your best yet I think.

[HAMRetrofit]

Perhaps the last city in North America with a fully functioning industrial sector.

This is definitely one of the best photo threads I have ever seen.

[xzmattzx]

Nice pictures. I like how you covered many industries and changeed things around, with port pictures, railroad pictures, steel mill pictures, new factory pictures, and old brick factory pictures.

[Sekkle]

Fantastic pics!

[jodelli]

Originally Posted by flar

^^what plant is that Jodelli?

The steel plant most visible is US Steel's Zug Island facility in River Rouge, MI.
At the left edge is Nemak's aluminum casting plant in Windsor that supplies heads and blocks for Ford and GM. In front of Zug Island are two Hydro stations. You can just see part of Ford's Rouge Plant in the background to the right of US Steel.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2305673...95634/sizes/l/

[KevinFromTexas]

Interesting pictures. Industrial stuff is ugly, but I just can't look away. Great thread, thanks for posting these.

[DC83]

Great shots, Flar! Hamilton has so many great, old warehouses that (if in different areas of the city) would be great Loft conversions.

I can even see my High School in this pic:

[direfloyd]

Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

HOLY GEES! That's lots and lots of CO2 right there! And I love the look of industry! It's very intricate and cool looking. But I hate the contamination.

I LOVE this picture. It's awesome that if they can't save the environment they can at least make it a more colorful place:

Only you can save the environment by refusing to use any steel product!!! No more surfing the internet using that evil steel made computer and definitely no Prius driving... think of all the pollution built into it frame and panels... evil steel!......

These are pictures of places that produce the basis of nearly every product we use, I love it! Great Pictures Flar!!! I went on a tour of one of the steel mills in Gary years ago, it was completely overwhelmingly cool!

Flar, when are you going to, or have you, take some shots of the Sudbury Nickel Plant? Now there is a factory! I realize it is a long drive, but you are slightly closer than me =)

[Thundertubs]

^^^ I've seen the smelter at Sudbury. The smokestack is 380 meters tall, which is about 100 feet short of the Empire State Building. I think they use cyanide to get the nickel out of the rock. The landscape around there was lunar. I've got pics in a shoebox somehwhere...
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MONSTER thread, flar. I can't get Heavy Duty Rock'n'Roll by Spinal Tap out of my head.

[flar]

I saw the Big Nickel and went on the mine tours in Sudbury when I was a kid, but haven't been back up there since. It would be pretty cool to do a big Sudbury tour, but it is pretty far away.

[tech12]

Amazing thread! I love industrial stuff.

[Bob Bratina]

These are wonderful photos. Some of my happiest days were working at Dofasco. Although I worked in the comfort of the Tin Mill Lab, I would often walk through the Hot Mill on Ottawa Street ( now gone) or other parts of the plant just to soak in the atmosphere. My days in the yard gang also took me around to different areas, and I'm pretty sure if I had been assigned to the Blast Furnace or the trains....transportation....I'd have retired out of there. Our identity is based in part on the magnificence and toughness captured in these photos. I remember ex football player Eddie Remigis, who's son is a Hamilton police officer, working in the hot mill amid the smoke, steam, sparks, fire and roar with bare arms flexing out of his ripped down T-shirt and safety glasses, oblivious to the commotion, fixed on the job of making steel coils, with blazing ingots moving over head to the accompaniment of warning sirens and factory din. It was awesome!!
Bob Bratina.