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Industry
Iron and steel manufacturing
Heavy industry, the reason for Birmingham's founding, is still an economic force here today. Foundries and pipe plants dot the landscape, the railroad runs through the city's center, and steam rises periodically in the distance from the quenching of super-heated metals.
North view from Red Mountain
1. ACIPCO (American Cast Iron Pipe Company)
2. Principal railroad lines
3. Hardie-Tynes Company
4. ABC Coke – Division of Drummond Company
5. McWane Pipe Company
6. Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark |