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Students, faculty, and staff of the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center came out on the lawn on a sunny April morning. Unfortunately, some images were dropped during photography (camera errors, perhaps?) and that's responsible for the black holes and jumbled alignment in the picture. David ...
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Clearcut ridgetop at Pinkerton Horn, along the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail. Click on "View in Google Earth" for the best view. See also view from this location, one month earlier, when it was less scarred: gigapan.org/gigapans/89920/ view from upstream side of the horn: gigapan
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Work crews are daylighting (digging out the ridge above) the CSX railroad tunnel visible at left so that taller rail cars can be run on this line. The Great Allegheny Passage bike trail and this CSX railroad follow the Casselman River here. Toward the center of the image, workers are cutting trees and excavating the ...
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It is sad to see that the healthy forest on top of Pinkerton Horn has been clearcut this year and this ridgetop will be used as a rock dumping ground. It's almost like we're stepping back 100 years to the bad old days when most of Pennsylvania's forests were clearcut. Here is a map of the two Pinkerton Tunnels and ...
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This panorama gives a partial idea of the view from the ore bridge, a gantry crane that rides on rails over the ore yard. If I had extended the panorama left-right and down, you'd get a better idea of the incredible view from up there.
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Iron ore, coke, and limestone come up to the top of the blast furnace in skip cars and are dumped into a funnel-shaped feed hopper above the blast furnace, for "cooking" into molten iron. Here's a picture of a skip car on this same track: gigapan.org/conversations/108893/ at the bottom of this track: http...
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We are in the stock house, a long building through which rail cars ran, at the bottom of the inclined track along which skip cars, carrying iron ore, coke, or limestone would be hoisted to the top of Blast Furnace 6, to be "cooked" to make molten iron. Here's a picture of a skip car on this same track: gigapa
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This room is part of the ore bridge gantry crane that rides on rails over the (iron) ore yard, picking up and dumping loads of iron ore in preparation for ironmaking in one of the blast furnaces.
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When Carrie Furnace was operating, rail cars would roll under these hoppers, and workers would (manually) open hatches to release coke from the hoppers above into the rail cars. Normally you wouldn't want a load of coke on the rails. Explanation of coke: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29
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Rail cars carrying iron ore would roll through here, the giant arms above the tracks would pick up a rail car and dump it over the wall at right, to go into the ore yard. This panorama is best viewed in Google Earth.
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