I did promise myself I wouldn't post too much in this particular area of the forum right away, but to be honest a lot of the places that were favourites of mine from the last few years just happened to be abroad - no surprise there.
This steelworks is one of my favourite locations I have ever explored. Ever. It's right up there in the top five, maybe even top three all time favourite explores and I would stay here a week to capture every minute detail of the place if I could. It's one of the most perfect examples of decades of decay I have ever seen, as well as being both massive and rammed full of things. It's also largely unknown in the community over there, my friends who have been consider it to be one of, if not the best industrial explore in the entire north east area of the country. If I'm honest I agree with them!
It's also quite a risky explore in a country where all trespassing is a criminal offence you can, and will be, arrested for if caught and the police don't like you.
It's an old works, very old by American standards of history. Production of steel began in the early 1900s, and ended in the 1980s when the company went bankrupt and the facility closed practically overnight leaving absolutely everything inside right down to workers uniforms. So far so standard steelworks fare, but that's not the interesting part of it's history. During the Second World War it was one of many steelworks allocated to work as part of the Manhattan Project, and it processed tens of thousands of tonnes of Uranium and thousands of tonnes of Thorium metals for a period of time. As such, the grounds are so heavily contaminated nobody wants to touch the buildings at all. Despite this, only half the buildings are empty. There is an active steelworks operating out of the buildings that weren't used for radioactive metals, and one of their warehouses joins onto part of one of the derelict buildings with a nasty barbed fence actually running inside the derelict building to fence off the active part from the empty bit!
Oh and because nobody wants to have anything to do with the site ownership passed to the US Government, which means there is even more of a reason to not be caught by the security patrols as consequences for being found on government property can be rather severe!
The first building was largely empty, but things got so much better as we went on. I make no apologies for the number of photos in this thread ha.
At the far right hand side rear of the building in the photo below was where the internal fence ran through it separating us from the active parts, we didn't stay too long here as parts of it were wide open to the road driven down by security.
Thanks for looking
This steelworks is one of my favourite locations I have ever explored. Ever. It's right up there in the top five, maybe even top three all time favourite explores and I would stay here a week to capture every minute detail of the place if I could. It's one of the most perfect examples of decades of decay I have ever seen, as well as being both massive and rammed full of things. It's also largely unknown in the community over there, my friends who have been consider it to be one of, if not the best industrial explore in the entire north east area of the country. If I'm honest I agree with them!
It's also quite a risky explore in a country where all trespassing is a criminal offence you can, and will be, arrested for if caught and the police don't like you.
It's an old works, very old by American standards of history. Production of steel began in the early 1900s, and ended in the 1980s when the company went bankrupt and the facility closed practically overnight leaving absolutely everything inside right down to workers uniforms. So far so standard steelworks fare, but that's not the interesting part of it's history. During the Second World War it was one of many steelworks allocated to work as part of the Manhattan Project, and it processed tens of thousands of tonnes of Uranium and thousands of tonnes of Thorium metals for a period of time. As such, the grounds are so heavily contaminated nobody wants to touch the buildings at all. Despite this, only half the buildings are empty. There is an active steelworks operating out of the buildings that weren't used for radioactive metals, and one of their warehouses joins onto part of one of the derelict buildings with a nasty barbed fence actually running inside the derelict building to fence off the active part from the empty bit!
Oh and because nobody wants to have anything to do with the site ownership passed to the US Government, which means there is even more of a reason to not be caught by the security patrols as consequences for being found on government property can be rather severe!
The first building was largely empty, but things got so much better as we went on. I make no apologies for the number of photos in this thread ha.
At the far right hand side rear of the building in the photo below was where the internal fence ran through it separating us from the active parts, we didn't stay too long here as parts of it were wide open to the road driven down by security.
Thanks for looking
