Train tracks from the former Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad that used to haul raw materials into the complex at the Lock Ridge Iron Furnace in Alburtis, PA. The Furnace opened in 1868 during the peak of the anthracite iron industry and operated until shortly after World War One.
Since 1970, the 59 acre site has operated as a community park while the original blast furnace # 7 now houses Lock Ridge Furnace Museum which is open on a limited basis during the Spring through Fall months. Ruins from blast furnace # 8 still stand on the site and areas of stone masonry throughout the area offer good opportunities for photography.
I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames at .7th stop variance and then combined them into an HDR and toned mapped them with Photomatix Pro. Black and white conversion was then done with OnOne Software’s Photo Tools Professional and the track and tie areas erased from the black and white layer revealing the color layer in Photoshop CS4.
