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Here is a link of some of my photos taken at the Lackawanna, NY (Buffalo) Bethlehem Steel Plant during a Western New Your Railway Historical Society – Railroad Days event held on the mill grounds in 1984.  Most of the plant operations had been shuttered by then.   One of the photos is of a unique dual ladle car; although I believe this car may have been used to haul molten slag and not molten iron or steel.  There was also a massive molten metal submarine card on display.  The plant also had quite a network of narrow gauge trackage as well, which crisscrossed the standard gauge trackage throughout the complex.

Back when the plant was still in operation, we would often go fishing on summer evenings out in Lake Erie near the plant and at nighttime it was quite a sight to see a slag train come out and dump the glowing rivers of lava-like slag down an embankment near the edge of the lake.

http://www.bendtheirons.com/im...yrhs/wnyrhs_pix.html

Scott

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