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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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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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This was a scouting mission to find the location from which a panoramic photograph of Homestead Steel Works was shot in 1910. That photo: picasaweb.google.com/pheckbert/Homestead#5427949312697809954
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In 1910, Carrie Furnace was making pig iron and Homestead Works was rolling it into steel sheets and beams. ...-
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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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Building in 1818 the Carrie Blast Furnace produced about 1000 to 1250 tons of iron a day. It was closed in 1978 and in 2006 Carrie Furnace 6 and 7 become a National Historic Landmark. www.cmu.edu/steinbrenner/brownfields/Case%20Studies/pdf/Carrie%20Furnace%20Case%20Study.pdf
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