During a shut-down of my home division, I worked on a temporary assignment on the pouring floor of the blast furnace at Lone Star Steel (now US Steel) during the Texas heat wave of 1980. We tapped the blast furnace, routed the slag to an outdoors cooling pit and the molten iron through sand-lined brick ditches to torpedo cars. After the furnace was emptied we stood on boards on top of still red-hot remains of iron and slag in the ditches, cleaning them with shovels and wheelbarrows and adding a new layer of dry sand to protect the ditches used to carry the molten iron to openings in the floor to the torpedo cars on a lower level. As soon as were were done, it was usually time for another tapping of the furnace. My additional duty was to take the temperature of the molten iron with a long road and thermocouple. We didn't have any fancy silver suits and face shields, just green fire retardant denim jeans and jackets and cotton gloves. It was unforgiving, punishing work. I was so glad to get back to my home division of the plant when that line came back up. I can't imagine doing that for 20-30 years. The 1940's era blast furnace was disassembled back in the 80's and sold, along with related equipment like the coke ovens. Those jobs are gone forever.
There was something that made an incredibly loud bang every so often. You could hear it throughout Bethlehem and Heller town and parts of Easton. I still don't know what made these bangs, but it was 24 hours a day. In the middle of the night, driving along I-78 and hearing it so loud, I don't know how anyone got any sleep. 30,000 jobs went away when they closed the plant. I remember the economic downturns. I was lucky, I was in a good position in the early 80s. But we lost so many good playing jobs from the 80s till now
Worked at a steel mill for a couple years ...got in just before economic collapse. Went back to my original trade as a locksmith and safe technician ...but with a ton of useful knowledge about steel / alloys/ hardened steels. Our plant did armor, ship steel and high end alloys for subs, aircraft ...all those mrap vehicles, strykers, uparmored Humvee ect. What a awesome experience, tough and extremely dangerous work but the pay was incredible, 100k wasn't hard to make if you didn't mind the ot
@@devtrash cause it's true stupid. Quality is hard to find when made by any twat born after a certain era. Now days everyone's a useless twat just like you. Common.
That happened to my father working there. They had a spill that consumed a D9 crawler and dumped 66,000 pounds on the floor. Yeah just go get a shovel and scoop it back into the furnace. NOT
Is that a "Calf" unit behind the switcher? OK... Just found the answer: That chopped off 1/2 Diesel looking unit is called a "Yard Slug" - no Diesel engine or generator inside, just traction motors in the wheel sets to provide extra pull.
+Cédric Coulombe You're an idiot. The most productive period for the US steel (and ANY) industry was when the unions had their greatest power. They built the new middle class. Things went to shit AFTER RONNIE RAY-GUN GOT IN!
***** In your case, neither fits your position. Facts are facts; you're just a marionette for the corporate clowns who tanked all these lines of business for us through lack of foresight and inability to meet their markets.
They last quite a while. The insides are lined with insulated bricks. The ones where I work are decades old. The trains that pull them are 70 years old too.
I suspect that those cars were not filled with metal, but slag, the waste product of steel production. The cars were designed to rotate and dump their contents in a field near the furnaces. When I was a young man, we used to drive near the Bethlehem plant in Lackawanna, NY to watch the operation at night. It was quite spectacular, lighting up the whole sky.
The car is a torpedo car used to haul iron. Slag is dumped into an open top slag pot. The last scene shows the torpedo car on the right and the slag pot on the left.
Is this by baltimore md? If it is I went to cdl school up there and we drove past thus place as they were tearing it down. The buliding on that site were huge!! The last I heard it was being turned into a big parking lot to store cars from overseas.
The plant shut down decades ago and was torn apart. Only a few remnants like Lehigh Heavy Forge which still operates the forge works at this site. Majority of the site has been redeveloped with numerous other businesses including a large warehouse distribution center. At least it's not some fallow brownfield anymore.
Cold Air from the Blowing engines to the air preheaters(aka Stoves} & then to the Blast Furnace to fan the coke fuel to melt iron out if the iron ore. The blast is 56,000 to 130,000CFM. That's why the large pipes.
Kaptain Kaos 1 second ago If my memory serves me correctly, the steel making machinery at the Bethlehem Steel facility in Pa. was sold to a Chinese enterprise, unbolted from its concrete foundations, shipped whole or disassembled via rail to the west coast and loaded on ocean going transports to Chinese port facilities. Then the machinery was moved by rail to a location in China where a new steel mill was waiting for it with newly poured foundations for the machinery with matching footprints and bolts ready for the massive machines to be lowered onto and bolted down. Then the power, ventilation, water, and all the ancillary supply lines and auxiliary equipment were attached and coordinated to make a new steel making facility in the PRC. So: no steel industry jobs were lost, they were just moved from Bethlehem PA to the PRC. This was done under the administration of R. Reagan, the "great communicator," and loyal friend of the working man. Were 30000 jobs lost at the mill? I understand the number was more like 40000 if you include all the workers in the support industries. All of the revenue from all of those paychecks stopped flowing to the US state, and local treasuries. You have all witnessed what happened to the businesses and the towns, cities, counties, states affected by this change. Not to mention the huge deficits that have assailed the Federal balance sheet from then until now. Thank you, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, Carl Icahn, and many, many others in the seats of power and finance.That's where your wages went. To other countries, never to return in your lifetime. So, vote for the Republican candidates in all elections, you lucky members of the former working class. They will continue to give you more of the same until you are gone from the face of the earth. Go listen to Kate Smith sing "God Bless America" now. Have a nice day.
How could you be that brainwashed? You think its just the Republicans? Democrats are just as guilty, they'll sell you out for the money and have been doing it for decades. Stop with the one-sided bullshit.
@@kman-mi7su "Bullshit" is not a counter argument. I repeat: " So, vote for the Republican candidates in all elections, you lucky members of the former working class. They will continue to give you more of the same until you are gone from the face of the earth. Go listen to Kate Smith sing "God Bless America" now. Have a nice day." You are welcome.
@@kaptainkaos134 Hey dimwit, did I say vote for republicans anywhere? Nice try and I reiterate, "Bullshit" is a counter argument because you think the blame is a single-party deal. Brainwashed fool.
Now it’s a dam casino Americans best ingenuity and and wealth all gone over seas Boy did we sell ourselves out I had the pleasure of watching hot poor’s and the slag trains poor’s in West Mifflin PA America lost so many jobs when we gave the steel industry away thanks brings pack good memories
That's slag. I worked dispatch when they had the explosion that knocked houses off their foundation across the river in Lower Saucon Twp. That phone rang off the hook.
How much time did they have to get these "bottle cars" to the place it was going and how exactly was it being used where it was delivered? Was this going to places that immediately made cast iron parts from it?
That's actually just iron in those rail cars. From there it goes to the B.O.F. (basic oxygen furnace) where the iron is converted into steel. From the B.O.F. it goes to the Caster which forms the steel into a thick slab. The slabs are then rolled in the rolling mills to form the coils. That's basically it. Blast furnace to Basic Oxygen Furnace to Caster to Rolling Mills.
They are going to the Basic Oxygen Furnace to reheat the molten pig iron to burn off the impurities such as carbon from the Blast Furnaces. Then the steel is poured into ingot molds, then reheated & rolled into slabs etc. The time needed to transport this iron is about 12 hours before it starts to solidify to the point they can't use it. Now with some BOF, the steel is poured into insulated ladles which are then put on railcars or wheeled vehicles & then to castor.
This is one of those times when a hyphen is needed. I understood that this film would relate to a car made of metal and that was hot. Had the title said "hot-metal car", the meaning would have been clear.
There where three unions are Bethlehem Steel, when one went on strike, the other two would honor, and go out too. Between that, and mismanagement (they thought they would never run out of money) they went out of business.
"I don't like Mondays", it's rumored that, that was the last thing he said, thank God he didn't survive, it would have really killed him to find out it was actually Friday.
Really. Explain why US Steel in Gary, IN and Granite City IL, as well as Sterling Steel in Sterling IL are coming back and POSTING PROFIT? Aside from the steel glut to China and India.
Nope, at least not all of them. Standard Steel in Burnham, PA has been making wheelsets from furnace to final machining since the 1800's. ORX in Tipton, PA also manufactures wheelsets. Penn Machine Co in Johnstown, PA is another manufacturer.
Supermassively makes a valid point and I can agree about parts....but private sectors still require unions ...especially steel mills...I could go on and on about management trying to putt people ...humans in incredibly dangerous situations ..absolutely deadly stuff to make a repair while equipment was running ..you couldn't imagine ...if you spoke up they would try to can your ass. ..seriously shit like that still happens in this day and age. The union would have your back .
Yeah guy you are 100% correct ! I worked for a steel mill 16 years exactly like that ! One of very few good paying Jobs in my area ! No union, if you spoke up about anything, your out! They have there ways
As much as I hate to say it Bethlehem steel really needed to close not from lack of business but from the fact that the place was a death trap. When it closed a few years ago almost nothing had changed since it was built in 1918. It needed modernization that was just too much to be practical.
Kabuki Kitsune What I mean is that they were still using original loaders and original al manned blast furnaces when modern steel plants they are mostly automated for safety. Bethlehem had none of those. The blast furnaces alone were nearly 100 years old. That made them very dangerous.
+Jacob Greve I would agree. Big Beth was a steel man's nightmare. They were just running out their last years on a very obsolete plant, that's all. Everyone knew it.
Jacob Greve they tried in the 70s . They modernized the furnaces except for the first one which only got air blowers. But it was to little, they would have been better off with shrinking the plant into a mini mill.
I agree with that, I worked for a steel mill 20 years until m/s took me out . since Ive left, jobs that took 6 people before, with automation is now a 3 person job !
then there will be nothing left. even things made in other countries are made from parts milled in china. you cant really boycott them. but we can start the process of making those basic parts ourselves as well as the finish products. that will cut out china from the process entirely.
@BadCivilServant you are a true american.. i miss america with the steam locomotives making every thing ! that actually LASTED!!! instead of breaking when you remove it from the mother fucking box!!!!... america (1776-1971) funny thing is that im 14 and i know what the REAL! america was like!!!
Nope. This WAS America. Bethlehem Steel was already in sharp decline at this point, and sold off their Johnstown plant the same year as this video. Three years later the Bethlehem plants were closed and that was the end. They continued the shipbuilding business for another few years but finally went bankrupt in 2001, with all assets being sold off.
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During a shut-down of my home division, I worked on a temporary assignment on the pouring floor of the blast furnace at Lone Star Steel (now US Steel) during the Texas heat wave of 1980. We tapped the blast furnace, routed the slag to an outdoors cooling pit and the molten iron through sand-lined brick ditches to torpedo cars. After the furnace was emptied we stood on boards on top of still red-hot remains of iron and slag in the ditches, cleaning them with shovels and wheelbarrows and adding a new layer of dry sand to protect the ditches used to carry the molten iron to openings in the floor to the torpedo cars on a lower level. As soon as were were done, it was usually time for another tapping of the furnace. My additional duty was to take the temperature of the molten iron with a long road and thermocouple. We didn't have any fancy silver suits and face shields, just green fire retardant denim jeans and jackets and cotton gloves. It was unforgiving, punishing work. I was so glad to get back to my home division of the plant when that line came back up. I can't imagine doing that for 20-30 years. The 1940's era blast furnace was disassembled back in the 80's and sold, along with related equipment like the coke ovens. Those jobs are gone forever.
been there. done that
Thanks for sharing
Yeah, well in my day, we used to do all of that, plus eat hot slag for lunch. You guys were spoiled.
I did that very same job the same way at Sharon Steel for 21/2 years.
dude i want to move with you
Thanks, we worked for years next to a switch yard, I enjoy watching the Switch Engines.
I like guys like this that upload train videos from the 90's!
The hot metal cars are lined with refractory brick much like the steel mill furnaces and ladles. There you have it!
There was something that made an incredibly loud bang every so often.
You could hear it throughout Bethlehem and Heller town and parts of Easton.
I still don't know what made these bangs, but it was 24 hours a day. In the middle of the night, driving along I-78 and hearing it so loud, I don't know how anyone got any sleep.
30,000 jobs went away when they closed the plant.
I remember the economic downturns. I was lucky, I was in a good position in the early 80s.
But we lost so many good playing jobs from the 80s till now
That loud bang is the pressure being released. It is followed by a stinky black cloud.
Slag dump or the pressure from the blast furnace
@@ironknobsteelworks4063Massive industrial fart!!!😮
Worked at a steel mill for a couple years ...got in just before economic collapse. Went back to my original trade as a locksmith and safe technician ...but with a ton of useful knowledge about steel / alloys/ hardened steels. Our plant did armor, ship steel and high end alloys for subs, aircraft ...all those mrap vehicles, strykers, uparmored Humvee ect. What a awesome experience, tough and extremely dangerous work but the pay was incredible, 100k wasn't hard to make if you didn't mind the ot
what's the ot?
@@government_man Over time pay.
@@wayneessar7489 Oh, thanks
love watching these videos please post more if you have them.
get the lotion Darren your in luck!
Sad how every last bit of this is now gone and replaced by a damn park. Last time I checked, a park doesn’t produce too many jobs.
A casino. Drinking, drugs, and gambling...........Thats "progress" for America.
Back when we actually MADE things and BUILT things.
😂😂 have that same feeling where I'm from.
Inefficiently !
oh gee not this comment again and again and again
@@devtrash cause it's true stupid. Quality is hard to find when made by any twat born after a certain era. Now days everyone's a useless twat just like you. Common.
@@utharkruna1116 Your cat wishes you made things, rather then reflect about the times you never lived in. Couch twatter
I could not agree more ! It is really dis-heartening that the assets of Bethlehem steel are not U.s. owned
When its China made, the land fill pays.
2:05 Imagine if the firebrick lining of the train car failed and the contents melted through the metal shell. Scary stuff!
That happened to my father working there. They had a spill that consumed a D9 crawler and dumped 66,000 pounds on the floor. Yeah just go get a shovel and scoop it back into the furnace. NOT
As a former steel mill worker, I approve !
Is that a "Calf" unit behind the switcher? OK... Just found the answer: That chopped off 1/2 Diesel looking unit is called a "Yard Slug" - no Diesel engine or generator inside, just traction motors in the wheel sets to provide extra pull.
We used to make stuff in the U.S.
+flyingmerkel6 and came the unions
+Cédric Coulombe you ain't lying. Unions has made many hard working Americans into pussies
+Cédric Coulombe You're an idiot. The most productive period for the US steel (and ANY) industry was when the unions had their greatest power. They built the new middle class. Things went to shit AFTER RONNIE RAY-GUN GOT IN!
Causality and correlation are 2 different things, and idiots might get confused
***** In your case, neither fits your position. Facts are facts; you're just a marionette for the corporate clowns who tanked all these lines of business for us through lack of foresight and inability to meet their markets.
Wonder how long those cars lasted before they couldn't be used anymore?
They last quite a while. The insides are lined with insulated bricks. The ones where I work are decades old. The trains that pull them are 70 years old too.
@@ironknobsteelworks4063 Which Iron and Steel factory do you work in?
@@havakuvvetleri2.anajetussu534 I work at the port Talbot plant in Wales.
@@ironknobsteelworks4063 hmm mean you work at Tata steel? Do you have any information about Iron and Steel factories in Turkey?
I suspect that those cars were not filled with metal, but slag, the waste product of steel production. The cars were designed to rotate and dump their contents in a field near the furnaces. When I was a young man, we used to drive near the Bethlehem plant in Lackawanna, NY to watch the operation at night. It was quite spectacular, lighting up the whole sky.
The car is a torpedo car used to haul iron. Slag is dumped into an open top slag pot. The last scene shows the torpedo car on the right and the slag pot on the left.
Felix Klempka
Those are "Bottle Cars" filled with molten steel.
The slag is loaded into "Pots", which are taken out and dumped into a "landfill".
well done. Too sad, that this mill has been closed down :-(
Was that Bethlehem Pennsylvania or Baltimore MD baltimore hadtorpedo or sub cars for hot metal
Ahhh yes, bottle cars, just another day making pig iron at the steel mill. Nice video.
I miss Bethlehem Steel
All of this is so fascinating
So sad, I can feel the heat yet when I visit the furnaces
Some scary stuff there
they will always do it this way at mills that have actual blast furnaces but at mini mills with electric furnaces the process is a bit different
Is this by baltimore md? If it is I went to cdl school up there and we drove past thus place as they were tearing it down. The buliding on that site were huge!! The last I heard it was being turned into a big parking lot to store cars from overseas.
lakawanna NY, just south of buffalo.
All the steel shortages and we got this place just chillin? Why wasn’t it fired up?
The plant shut down decades ago and was torn apart. Only a few remnants like Lehigh Heavy Forge which still operates the forge works at this site. Majority of the site has been redeveloped with numerous other businesses including a large warehouse distribution center. At least it's not some fallow brownfield anymore.
I Agree. I Grew in the Most Industrialized City in America. Pittsburgh Pa now theres only about 15-20 mills still around within 70 Miles of Pittsburgh
but still smells like a dump
@@scottthompson9923 nothing left now
Oh that poor SW7 has seen better days. You can tell that plant's prepping to shut down....everything's falling apart.
Yeah
They all look run down.
Can anyone say what the working time is for these torpedo car cargoes?
Do you mean how long the torpedo lasts before it needs re-lining, or how long until the molten metal solidifies?
Ahh, the excitement of industry.
to all those who are bleating about loss of iron and steel making save a thought for us brits. home of the industry, but sadly no more production😥
Port Talbot is still going strong
whaat, why and how did they remove it?
whats runnin threw them massive pipes on the building? cheers.
Cold Air from the Blowing engines to the air preheaters(aka Stoves} & then to the Blast Furnace to fan the coke fuel to melt iron out if the iron ore. The blast is 56,000 to 130,000CFM. That's why the large pipes.
Kaptain Kaos
1 second ago
If my memory serves me correctly, the steel making machinery at the Bethlehem Steel facility in Pa. was sold to a Chinese enterprise, unbolted from its concrete foundations, shipped whole or disassembled via rail to the west coast and loaded on ocean going transports to Chinese port facilities. Then the machinery was moved by rail to a location in China where a new steel mill was waiting for it with newly poured foundations for the machinery with matching footprints and bolts ready for the massive machines to be lowered onto and bolted down. Then the power, ventilation, water, and all the ancillary supply lines and auxiliary equipment were attached and coordinated to make a new steel making facility in the PRC. So: no steel industry jobs were lost, they were just moved from Bethlehem PA to the PRC. This was done under the administration of R. Reagan, the "great communicator," and loyal friend of the working man. Were 30000 jobs lost at the mill? I understand the number was more like 40000 if you include all the workers in the support industries. All of the revenue from all of those paychecks stopped flowing to the US state, and local treasuries. You have all witnessed what happened to the businesses and the towns, cities, counties, states affected by this change. Not to mention the huge deficits that have assailed the Federal balance sheet from then until now. Thank you, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, Carl Icahn, and many, many others in the seats of power and finance.That's where your wages went. To other countries, never to return in your lifetime. So, vote for the Republican candidates in all elections, you lucky members of the former working class. They will continue to give you more of the same until you are gone from the face of the earth. Go listen to Kate Smith sing "God Bless America" now. Have a nice day.
How could you be that brainwashed? You think its just the Republicans? Democrats are just as guilty, they'll sell you out for the money and have been doing it for decades. Stop with the one-sided bullshit.
@@kman-mi7su "Bullshit" is not a counter argument. I repeat: " So, vote for the Republican candidates in all elections, you lucky members of the former working class. They will continue to give you more of the same until you are gone from the face of the earth. Go listen to Kate Smith sing "God Bless America" now. Have a nice day." You are welcome.
@@kaptainkaos134 Hey dimwit, did I say vote for republicans anywhere? Nice try and I reiterate, "Bullshit" is a counter argument because you think the blame is a single-party deal. Brainwashed fool.
@@kaptainkaos134 Trump Tariffs work, we need more of them.
Boy wouldn’t that be a cool job? Get to spot cars of hot lava with brakes tied down so you can hear them squeal. Sounds like job from Hell.
That didn't show anything being filled. WTF
Hi there! is the casino already running?
refractorick which is also what lines the inside off the blast furnace and if i am correct the furnaces stoves
Yes and the hot metal cars were lined with refractory brick. Same with the Basic Oxygen Furnace and ladles
so, that is where hell gets all of its lava.
is this steel mill still producing steel or
his it abandoed
Still making steel
Long since closed.
Yes, it makes steel chop sticks
Did not see any filling...?
Where is this mill located?
Now it’s a dam casino Americans best ingenuity and and wealth all gone over seas Boy did we sell ourselves out I had the pleasure of watching hot poor’s and the slag trains poor’s in West Mifflin PA America lost so many jobs when we gave the steel industry away thanks brings pack good memories
uss homestead 78-82
That's slag. I worked dispatch when they had the explosion that knocked houses off their foundation across the river in Lower Saucon Twp. That phone rang off the hook.
Slag isn't loaded into to torpedo cars, it's loaded into open top ladle cars as shown in several other videos.
How much time did they have to get these "bottle cars" to the place it was going and how exactly was it being used where it was delivered? Was this going to places that immediately made cast iron parts from it?
That's actually just iron in those rail cars. From there it goes to the B.O.F. (basic oxygen furnace) where the iron is converted into steel. From the B.O.F. it goes to the Caster which forms the steel into a thick slab. The slabs are then rolled in the rolling mills to form the coils. That's basically it. Blast furnace to Basic Oxygen Furnace to Caster to Rolling Mills.
About 24 hours....they are heading to the castor to make steel slabs
About 24 hours,they are filled with iron not steel
They are going to the Basic Oxygen Furnace to reheat the molten pig iron to burn off the impurities such as carbon from the Blast Furnaces. Then the steel is poured into ingot molds, then reheated & rolled into slabs etc. The time needed to transport this iron is about 12 hours before it starts to solidify to the point they can't use it. Now with some BOF, the steel is poured into insulated ladles which are then put on railcars or wheeled vehicles & then to castor.
strobx1 Bethlehem never had a caster, nor did they make slabs. This plant made heavy forgings and rolled structural steel.
Lucky my dad still works for em a lot of guys lost their jobs all though now it's a different company
Hello . Since steel is now done with, but only the carbon out, in the converter!
Sweet footage 5 stars
Lol old comment
This is one of those times when a hyphen is needed. I understood that this film would relate to a car made of metal and that was hot. Had the title said "hot-metal car", the meaning would have been clear.
There where three unions are Bethlehem Steel, when one went on strike, the other two would honor, and go out too. Between that, and mismanagement (they thought they would never run out of money) they went out of business.
a guy jumped off into one of them at Geneva steel in Provo Utah back in 1997.
That would have made a mess.
"I don't like Mondays", it's rumored that, that was the last thing he said, thank God he didn't survive, it would have really killed him to find out it was actually Friday.
I remember that.
@BadCivilServant That would mean no more model railroading unless I found old Lionel in antique stores.
we have the same thing here in norway, its called winter lol.
Huh?
Look like torpeders on rails
Hence the nickname "torpedo cars"
I visited Bethlehem s steel in 1995 hot strip mill section in sparrow point now is think liquidised
Could you not have asked the engineer to turn off his headlight for the video?
China! thank Nixon and Kissinger for opening that door !
YES INDEED. A CHEAP GREASY CROOK AND WAR CRIMINAL. NO LOVE HERE.
Really.
Explain why US Steel in Gary, IN and Granite City IL, as well as Sterling Steel in Sterling IL are coming back and POSTING PROFIT?
Aside from the steel glut to China and India.
My Grandfather worked for them in New Jersey
Hello
NOT filling a hot metal car being filled. Hot metal car before being filled and after being filled but not filling.
Paul Bunyan's football.
I bet that train got a LOT heavier.
Yeah. Them torps weigh 100 tonne empty and 500 tonne full.
The BOF is the other way. Well was the other way.
I'd hate for one of those cars to derail.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/site-huge-explosion-tata-steelworks-16257277
One did where I work in Port Talbot. It took out the engine shed and it sounded and looked like an atom bomb going off.
Now,even the wheel-sets under our freight-cars are made in China.
Nope, at least not all of them. Standard Steel in Burnham, PA has been making wheelsets from furnace to final machining since the 1800's. ORX in Tipton, PA also manufactures wheelsets. Penn Machine Co in Johnstown, PA is another manufacturer.
Supermassively makes a valid point and I can agree about parts....but private sectors still require unions ...especially steel mills...I could go on and on about management trying to putt people ...humans in incredibly dangerous situations ..absolutely deadly stuff to make a repair while equipment was running ..you couldn't imagine ...if you spoke up they would try to can your ass. ..seriously shit like that still happens in this day and age. The union would have your back .
Yeah guy you are 100% correct ! I worked for a steel mill 16 years exactly like that ! One of very few good paying Jobs in my area ! No union, if you spoke up about anything, your out! They have there ways
I'm going to have to do what you have done: Buy some silver and have it shipped home. $140 is about £100 sterling and I can spare that OK.
wut
great
As much as I hate to say it Bethlehem steel really needed to close not from lack of business but from the fact that the place was a death trap. When it closed a few years ago almost nothing had changed since it was built in 1918. It needed modernization that was just too much to be practical.
Kabuki Kitsune What I mean is that they were still using original loaders and original al manned blast furnaces when modern steel plants they are mostly automated for safety. Bethlehem had none of those. The blast furnaces alone were nearly 100 years old. That made them very dangerous.
+Jacob Greve I would agree. Big Beth was a steel man's nightmare. They were just running out their last years on a very obsolete plant, that's all. Everyone knew it.
Jacob Greve they tried in the 70s . They modernized the furnaces except for the first one which only got air blowers. But it was to little, they would have been better off with shrinking the plant into a mini mill.
I agree with that, I worked for a steel mill 20 years until m/s took me out . since Ive left, jobs that took 6 people before, with automation is now a 3 person job !
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what car...
where is the car...
that is a trailerbox and not a car
@partyhouse88 yes they do
WHY THE HELL AM I THINKING OF DOMINOS PIZZA AS I WATCH THIS? IS IT BECAUSE IT'S HOT! HOT!!! HOT!!!!! LOL
@southern4501isawesom of course you do kid, of course you do.....*pats head*
Holy fuck eh, imagine a train pulling 200 of those hot metal car at 75mp/h, and derails.
60,000 to 100,000 tonnes of carnage
Muito bom!
That didn't show filling shit.
Ben are you still alive?
then there will be nothing left. even things made in other countries are made from parts milled in china. you cant really boycott them. but we can start the process of making those basic parts ourselves as well as the finish products. that will cut out china from the process entirely.
is it slag
No. Molten iron.
@BadCivilServant you are a true american.. i miss america with the steam locomotives making every thing ! that actually LASTED!!! instead of breaking when you remove it from the mother fucking box!!!!... america (1776-1971) funny thing is that im 14 and i know what the REAL! america was like!!!
THIS IS AMERICA...
Nope. This WAS America. Bethlehem Steel was already in sharp decline at this point, and sold off their Johnstown plant the same year as this video. Three years later the Bethlehem plants were closed and that was the end. They continued the shipbuilding business for another few years but finally went bankrupt in 2001, with all assets being sold off.
....... shut up its jobs people cant survive without food
I wish I could have worked there.
Yawn
I never see the lieers