BillsPics' photos with the keyword: manufacturing

Remaining foundations for several of the old blast furnaces at the Old Joliet Iron Works site in Illinois. The Works operated till 1936,part of the US Steel Plant in the suburb of Chicago. It was,for a time ,the second largest steel plant in the US.The steel side of the plant closed in 1981. The Iron Works side of the plant was taken over by the city and into a great city park. The steel plant remains, mostly abandoned....

A long,silent hallway in the abandoned Kewanee Boiler office building in Kewanee, IL.The company, synonymous for it's boilers that powered manufacturering, government, and school buildings, abandoned the office many years ago. The whole factory complex, including this building, is currently under demolition....

The sorry remains of the original Kewanee Boiler Plant in Kewanee, IL. The plant first began in 1868,and by the early 1900's Kewanee boilers were in manufacturing plants, government buildings, schools and churches, and ships all over the world. The plant at one time employed 4000 workers and still had nearly a 1000 in the early '70s. But more efficient ways of powering and heating became available and the plant was finally shuttered in 2002. Today only the badly dilipidated office building and this single metal smoke stack remain on the site....