Small update regarding Bethlehem Steel: It appears I have completely missed the Hoover-Mason Trestle that was opened to the public in 2015.
http://hoovermason.com
https://thebrownandwhite.com/2015/09/06/bethlehem-steel-walkway/
For Buddha's sake, we only got a listing for Leader Class Snarl this July.
https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/03/even-more-2023-transformers-listings-found-studio-series-leader-86-snarl-rotb-scourge-rotb-optimus-primal-459574
The Zollverein Coal Mining Complex in Essen, Germany is also a UNESCO World heritage site. It contains both a former coal mine that is now a museum, and a coking plant that has an unrestricted walking area for visitors. There's even an open-air swimming pool at the coking plant! Guided tours are...
Using my Google-fu, I can offer this to you after a quick search:
https://www.thesteelyard.org
https://rhodetour.org/tours/show/28
https://rhodetour.org/tours/show/10
Also, in Massachussets:
http://www.middlesexcanal.org/museum/
And maybe the Charles River Dam and Gridley Locks Footpath in...
Wrapping up the chapter on preserved historic blast furnaces, we're leaving Europe.
Our first stop is Japan, which has the Higashida Daiichi Blast Furnace, which is part of the Higashida Area Museum Park in Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyūshū Island...
And now the sites I haven't visited yet:
U4 Blast Furnace Park in Uckange in the Lorraine region of France. Located about an hour's drive from the Saarland...
Two other sites in Germany which I've visited back in 2014:
Altes Hüttenareal Neunkirchen is an assembly of several industrial relics located in Neunkirchen in the Saarland region in the South of Germany.
https://www.neunkirchen.de/aha/
(Sorry, website in German only)
Two blast furnaces...
The Henrichshütte in Hattingen, located about an hour's drive from my home, is another abandoned ironworks site that has been converted into a museum.
https://henrichshuette-hattingen.lwl.org/en/
Only one blast furnace remains (the other one was disassembled, sold off to China and reassembled...
I'd like to kick this off with one type of site that I'm very familar with, and which started my whole interest in this topic: Ironworks. No, not the G1 Micromaster. Actual ironworks. The ones with blast furnaces.
Blast furnaces are large, industrial furnaces fueled with coke (that's coked...
I started a thread on this topic many years ago on the old Allspark forums. For obvious reasons, that thread is long gone, so I'd like to start a new one.
My personal backstory: I was born, grew up and still live in Duisburg, Germany. My city is part of the Ruhr region, one of the largest...
Oh hai Chan-jo Jun! That guy is fun. He's a lawyer who specializes in media law and has frequently been in court against anti-vaxxers and other Covid deniers, and talked about it on his Youtube channel. Sometimes with massive tons of irony, where he described his opponents' legal "arguments" as...
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