Sometimes, you can be part of the story.
In the spring of 2018, the Pittsburgh chapter of the IEEE visited the Carrie Furnace (named for a family member of the original builder) on what started and ended as a beautiful summer day, punctuated with a thunderstorm for local color.
What the fashionable steel/iron worker wore if they wanted to keep all their body parts.
The site of the Homestead riots of 1892
The pumphouse - new on the right, old on the left. The Pinkerton's started running the gauntlet to safety at the police station where the new portion of the pumphouse now stands.
The furnaces from the pumphouse
Ever wonder what happens to your car when you're done with it?
What Pittsburgh icon would be complete without a deer?
Coke, Iron, and Limestone (the three stars on the Pittsburgh Steelers helmets) were delivered here by railroad cars on the trestle above.
Threatening weather on the horizon. The furnaces and indeed the Pittsburgh steel industry have weathered worse over the years
... and the rains came
The furnace itself - the tube around the bottom is a plenum for high-pressure air to keep the furnace over 2000 degrees
View from the furnace into the staging yards
Pressure vessels that provided the high-pressure air for the furnaces
Work order still there from when the last crew left in 1982