INCREDIBLE STEEL MILL VIDEO from DRONE! 5 BLAST FURNACES!!
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Being from Baltimore, I remember when Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point just outside the city was a booming place. I worked for the local gas and electric utility and always enjoyed going there to inspect a new gas line construction project. There was always train action going on and tracks ran everywhere! Everything at Sparrows Point - roads, buildings, track roadbeds - had a reddish brown color from the steel making emissions. Your drone shots brought back memories of those times.
DJ, thank you so very much for the shout out. I deeply appreciate it my friend. Be safe and happy modeling!
my pleasure, my friend.
Great drone footage. Incredible to see something that large preserved as a monument for heavy industry in the past. Thanks for posting.
I am so glad they preserved this site!
Me too!!!
Hey DJ your best steel vid yet,saved to my list.
Trix do some kits in HO but mega pricey.
Looks like a lot of scratch building ahead for me.
Problem with a lot of blast furnaces and other structures is space and the height if you are multi deck like mine so the steel backdrop would go nicely next to my high line.
Blast furnaces and steel mills in general are about as dystopian and awe-inspiring as you can get in real life.😮
Totally awesome video DJ, thank you for sharing this one and I look forward to the HO layout coming up.
Oh I do want to get going on my 90' long steel mill, but still waiting on repairs to my barn.
For some reason I always like blast furnaces like these ones.
Same.😊
Great monument to those who worked, suffered, and sometimes died in this industry
Nice drone shots and info thanks
Blast furnaces turned iron ore into steel. Scrap was mostly remelted in the basic oxygen furnaces, otherwise known as BOFs.
Technically, BFs turn iron ore into pig iron. And then the pig iron is turned into steel in BOFs.
Fabulous video!
Amazing most mills have one or at most two blast furnaces with the rest being continuous casting or rolling mills for the auto industry BTW great shot of the crane your keep getting better with the drone
Awesome video enjoy the history
Thanks for this one DJ.
Mike
Nice Video
Fantastic !
Even if your not planning a "pike" built around the steel industry, this is a priceless glimpse into America's industrial heritage. JOLLY GOOD SHOW!
Thank you
Fantastic video DJ great drone shots thanks for sharing 👍🏻
The Moravian Church has their College and Seminary there also in Bethlehem, cool....Alsao been told by historians, the first indoor toilets in the US :):):):)
Good evening-amigo- wow. unreal vlog-seey a~🤩
Very good video can't wait to see it in person
Great video. Thank you DJ. It was fascinating to watch. I couldn't also help but think drone shots like this would be a great tool for video game designers.
Bethlehem Steel had 3 ft. and standard gauge track. Plus an electrified raw material line of 7' 10". From what I could find out. Another great vid. Too bad there aren't more guys that worked steam to interview.
Awesome Footage and info. Thanks man
Thanks for watching!
Looks like the high line was electrified?
maybe someone with more knowledge can answer this for us...
Thanks DJ!! The colors of the buildings and structures are fantastic!!
Beautiful presentation for the Bethlehem Steel Tourist site! It looks so good it's more like an artist's conception rather than would likely result in a completed structure. I like that there is a section of the high line that has been restored to where people can walk on the surface the way it was in operation. This project must of taken immense effort and dedication to pull-off. It's odd to look past the site and not see a speck of the supporting steel industry left around.
It’s an amazing place
We're just playing at trains! You couldn't begin to model the whole thing, but it's be fun trying. Fantastic footage DJ
That IS a killer shot of the crane!! Nice work DJ!
This is my hometown love these ole blast furnaces
High line was a wider gauge, was also electric. There are a couple of great books from Morning Sun about this plant that I highly recommend if you are a fan of steel.
Another great video. I am from the UK but sometimes wish I was in the US for the trains! Anyway I have a future plan to create a steel mill industrial layout in 009 (narrow gauge), so your videos are an invaluable resource. Thank you.
Awesome
To bad it had to shut down. Looks like an impressive place.
DJ those bottle cars as you called them are known as torpedo cars actually! and the best of my knowledge except for specialized trolleys all the tracks are standard gauge and those trolleys normally use a double track set up at least for the mills i've been around!
Between the Lehigh and the Co. museum, it’s a very tuff call. They are both as equally impressive and each have there own signature about them. But each one left me in awe. I recommend to anyone visiting these areas go see these layouts, I have seen many beautiful layouts myself but nothing even compares to either of them. Looking forward to seeing your other videos in Sept. the only other layout that can compare to the Lehigh and Keystone or the Co model rr museum is the Miniature Wunderland in Hamburg Germany.
I got my passport with that in mind.
@@djstrains don’t know if you ever heard the real story about the Wunderland but it was started by those two brothers by accident, they were already millionaires and were left that building as an inheritance and couldn’t sell it. So they started a model RR for fun and before long they had lines out side. The Airport you see on there many videos cost over 2 million just for that. It’s a bucket list thing for me but doubtful.
Hi DJ I was just there yesterday, and it’s truly amazing to see. I was there to visit the Lehigh and Keystone valley RR club and that was a massive absolutely beautiful layout. Then we visited this site right after. And you it’s true , you see a lot but not the way you show it here. Great job. Sorry I don’t to FB and other social media. But would love to speak to you about so much more. Thanks Sam T.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, the drone really shows so much!
Cool videos, and many thanks for the intro to steel making! Nice to see that the area has been preserved to some extent. Where were the coke ovens usually located? Offsite near the coal mines or somewhere closer to the blast furnaces?
To show you why people may call me a dork. I toured the outside and got excited when I discovered the dual guage rail trackage, overhead catenary, and motive power!
Great video
My first question was going to be: "Where?" but you answered it right off the bat. Bethlehem.
I suspect this video will be the most useful for me personally than anything else you've put up yet.
BIGGEST THANKS !!!
Excellent!
As always DJ, a great video again!👍
It's also a bit of industrial archaeology. A bit sad that they closed the blast furnaces. It's the same here in Belgium. I live 30 km west of Liege, where some furnaces are still active. Same kind of images.
Curious and looking forward to see your videos about Denver.
So you crossed the Mississippi?😂
Hahaha
Great drone work D.J., got (4) blast furnace to model together , lots of visual info 👍, Thanks buddy take care.👋😎🛤🚂
Thank you so much for this video. You have now given me hours of research looking at what this once was. I would appreciate a google maps location(link) in the desecration. I love looking a maps while watching the videos of historic places. This also looks like it would be a fun FPV spot, other than losing a quad :( I would love exploring this place, yes, I do know it's off limit and I will probably never get there anyway, but it would still be cool.
Google" steelstacks in bethlehem, pa."
This was very cool
Thanks
Thank you! Sincerely appreciated
Go DJ!
I did love the video! I will be driving to Michigan from a NY wedding in a couple of weeks and will find myself driving between Altoona ( for obvious reasons ) and Pittsburgh. Might I impose on your generosity and ask for any suggestions of cool places so see along the way? Thanks for the videos. Tony.
Here's the thing, you'll probably take rt 22 west. so you will have to get off, get on to see some sights. Some are off of rt. 30 like ligonear, and greensburg.
Altoona: horseshoe curve, Johnstown has really cool old railroad buildings, Cresson. Id google maps and see what you think is best. keep in mind, our roads suck with traffic and construction.
@@djstrains I will indeed be straying from Rt 22... thanks for the ideas!
DJ, this one was over-the-top amazing! (I sorta liked it (a lot).😉 That gantry crane/abandoned building would be at home on any layout, steel-oriented or not.
Masterfully done, inspiring, informative. I would give it 10 thumbs up. (I'm all thumbs)🙄 🚂Lawrence
So does this mean you like it? Lol. Thanks
@@djstrains No! . . . I love it❤
I went to work for Railroad Friction Products in 2000, which is a part of Wabtec (formerly WABCO). We made brake shoes. We bought steel from Bethlehem Steel, but they decided we were too small and stopped supplying us. We switched to Nucor Steel, who had figured out how to make high grade steel from scrap. Eventually other people did this, and now Bethlehem Steel is no more.
interesting
it would take a long time just to build that as a model. and then weathering it for realism.. but oh ya that would be a eye catching scene for sure.
As I recall, DJ has a video on how he did it.
Hey djstrains are you going to strusburg pa for the 911 if I understand right it’s going back down to Roanoke this is the last weekend if I understand right I’m planning on going this Saturday
Hi, unfortunately no, I have too many other obligations at the moment.
@@djstrains ah ok no worries I was just wondering you be safe out there and have fun
Cool shots, esp. down into the buildings. Some of that wide track is dual gauge.
Where is this, Elizabeth, PA? I'll guess that's the Mon flowing next to it.
i wonder what that tower is at about 8:45. Maybe it's a water tank?
See ya on the next one, DJ. (do you ever go by "Dom?")
Bethlehem Pennsylvania about 4 hours away.
DJ is preferred
@@djstrains Missed it by "that much!"
Have a great vacation!
Dean Freytag, an expert, has a book through Kalmbach on the making and modeling of steel.
Legendary book!
hello dj its is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy
Cool video. I have a question. Does the brake wheel on the cars go towards the front of the car or the rear or does it not matter? Thank you.
Doesn’t matter. But we identify the cars end as A end, and B end, with the B being the end with the brake wheel
DJ ... You have taken your channel to another level my man ... I was about to unsubscribe; real talk! but these shots and the few different aspects that you have on your layout has increased your stock exponentially!
Stay with me, the new footage is even more amazing!
Who is the first song you had in the video? After the commercial.
mist-adonis
DJ Careful showing your ID in this vid brother. I would edit this out.
We have just a few steel plants left in the UK and they are amazing, but the Far East can make it cheaper.
I understand
Port Talbot will shortly be decommissioning their 2 Blast Furnaces, & replacing them with Electric Arc Furnaces. that will leave only 2 at Scunthorpe. it's a bad move in these troubled times as we need virgin steel in the event of a war
TOO MUCH TALKING DOWNVOTED
You seem like someone who has probably no friends.