ASARCO: El Paso Copper Smelting Plant - # - www.retake.com

I received rare permission to take one last set of photographs before they finished removing the remainder of the railway and blowing up the towers. It has been a sore spot on El Paso's skyline for years, and a source of significant emissions.

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Taller of two towers at copper smelting plant in El Paso, TX. Most everything else had been torn down--the two towers would be imploded last, removing an eye-sore and pollutant in the city.

Twisted pieces of steel, waiting for the recycler to come by and reuse the metal.

Twisted, rusted, and very thick scrap steel from a cooling portion of the copper smelting plant.

This twisted, mangled piece of steel lying in a shadowed corner reminded me of so many things. See the weld line two-thirds of the way across, from left to right?

We've heard of various legislative projects called "The Bridge to Nowhere"--well, this is a train track to nowhere. Actually, they had just torn down part of it.

Huge, gritty, greasy gears that had done their work for more than a century.

Taller of two towers at copper smelting plant in El Paso, TX. Most everything else had been torn down--the two towers would be imploded last, removing an eye-sore and pollutant in the city.