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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.
Twisted pieces of steel, waiting for the recycler to come by and reuse the metal.
Twisted pieces of steel, waiting for the recycler to come by and reuse the metal.
Twisted pieces of steel, waiting for the recycler to come by and reuse the metal.
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Keywords: steel recycle el paso tx asarco copper smelting plant
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