Ted Schwartz remembers when the blue flame of the blast furnaces burned brightly, a symbol of Bethlehem Steel, where he once worked as a motor inspector.

Trace Williams, a 7-year-old Lower Saucon Township boy more familiar with Wii video games than the machinery that helped win World War II, has no memory of the light.

The two strangers joined about 150 others who began gathering at 8 a.m. Tuesday in the shadows of those rusting blast furnaces, eagerly awaiting the grand opening of the National Museum of Industrial History. CLICK HERE FOR MORE