The Stack at Muscoda

Posted by: Naaman

This giant brick smokestack was erected over 100 years ago. There were once many like it in the Birmingham area. Now there is one. The rest have been harvested for their brick or succumbed to nature.

This stack helped conduct the No. 5 mine, which was a limestone mining operation. 

This smokestack is the last of its kind in Alabama.

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Muscoda Mines

Posted by: Naaman   Opened in 1881, Muscoda became the largest of the Tennessee Coal and Iron mine operations.   The Muscoda facilities supplied iron ore and limestone to the TCI Open-Hearth furnaces located at the Ensley Furnaces Works until 1961. 
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TCI: Up Close and Personal

Posted by: Exoth℮rmic

One can't get sick of TCI. I have been there 4 times and there is still much that I have not seen. These pictures are freshly finished, but are from our initial visit almost exactly a year ago.

Link to full gallery on Flickr (~75 photos).

1. Note that no one will ever see this and the next particular scenes again. Sometime around the winter of 2009/10 all of the stacks in this image were inexplicably demolished by some nefarious entity.


2. The fact that the historic stacks were knocked over without any public notification or even any media coverage thereafter is a travesty in itself.


3. The otherwordly hot metal mixer.


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18. It was a great day at TCI.