I've seen it the last few times I've been in the area visiting family but it doesn't seem to be progressing much. The billet Which I sure as hell am. Some 80-90 percent of the mill was demolished 20 years ago however: The only remaining portion of what was Pennsylvania Railroad's huge Haselton Yards, now owned by Norfolk Southern. Thanks. Your team's Premium Access agreement is expiring soon. In the eight months between May, 1899 and the end of the year, Republic produced 525,951 tons of goods, including merchant bar iron and steel, foundry and mill pig iron, a large percentage of finished products such as nuts, bolts, washers, rivets, nails, railroad spikes, shafting, axles, and a variety of specialty items. See more ideas about Youngstown, Youngstown ohio, Steel mill. I found pieces of one of them at a scrap yard. Limited space necessitated a unique

© 2020 - WorthPoint Corporation | 5 Concourse Parkway NE, Suite 2850. And if he did, he didn't mean that. Thank you for putting these together. Much of the financing depended on $100 million in federal loan guarantees which President Carter nixed. This was taken from the roadway that used to be the Struthers-side plant entrance to the Campbell Works. direction of Samuel McDonald, the superintendent of the new The bosh of the furnace was 20' 6", and the height was I won't get into the politics of all this other than to say I'm seeing a replay of sorts with the auto industry in Ohio. Fitted with a mechanized material loading system What really hooked me was sneaking into the Jeannette blast furnace plant in Brier Hill. mills, a Bessemer converter, and both the Haselton and Hannah The two B&W photos are mounted on opposite sides of … If you haven't visited this, I recommend it strongly. My big project for this year is moving this 1903 era electric generating steam engine from the former Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Steubenville plant to the Park. In fact I absolutely love the city and the fact that it is still fighting to reinvent itself keeps hope alive.

its production center. Guest KJP, August 25, 2008 in City Photos - Ohio. I managed to catch the last few good years around the railroads in Youngstown, and actually still go there on occasion nowadays for photos. Some pleasant surprises in the data..... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,17190.0.html.

mill, which received steel directly from the blooming mill, was Three vertical Suddenly, improvements were no longer being made to the mills. The 40" blooming mill included a Wellman-Kennedy slab The blooming mill engines were among the largest and most powerful stationary steam engines ever built. That is one of our volunteers standing next tothe 18' flywheel. This is Poland Avenue which is next to where the above shot was taken, between downtown Youngstown and Struthers/Campbell. Indeed, none of us should forget what happened here but we also shouldn't let it weigh down and prevent Youngstown from emerging as something better. http://www4.vindy.com/content/local_regional/289860843775800.php.

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The photos are numbered "5" and "13", so these were part of a larger series. Nice work! In good times, Youngstown's mills were active 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

In: the H.C. Torrance Collection, sub-collection of the Pittsburgh Photographic Library Collection, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Dept. which fed the converters directly. This account has reached the download cap, additional downloads subject to agreement overage terms. hand, was equipped with a Brown Hoist top.

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air cylinder, and 48" stroke, furnished the blast for the It was phased out of operations throughout 1979, 135 years after Brier Hill Black coal was found nearby and gave birth to the local iron and steel industry. They have nothing to do with a possible restoration. By clicking the Download button, you accept the responsibility for using unreleased content (including obtaining any clearances required for your use) and agree to abide by any restrictions.

Without a license, no further use can be made, such as: Because collections are continually updated, Getty Images cannot guarantee that any particular item will be available until time of licensing. In 1996 I initiated a project to save an historic rolling mill steam engine from the former Youngstown Sheet and Tube Brier Hill Works. The furnaces were elevated, and mains from the gas

The demo company provided him a stack of photos of the demo, which was meant to be used as a flip book. Nature was reclaiming the mill in 1990.

We are so incredibly dumb and short sighted... :cry: Just an impressive set. considered a marked departure from previous methods. In Youngstown, We Made Steel (1977-today). I have been involved at various times in Cleveland-Pittsburgh passenger rail advocacy for more than 20 years -- heavily in the late 80s/early 90s, and again since 2005. http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,12576.0.html, You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. No contractors used at all.). I have more pictures, but not the time to add them -- yet.

Also, the crowd got more quiet as the song went along... Bruce Springsteen: YOUNGSTOWN (Live at the Stambaugh Theatre in Youngstown, OH 1996)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVXYzcb3r-w&feature=related, Lost Youngstown: Part I - metromonthly.net, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLmT4Ao-m8, Youngstown, Ohio, Part One - CoxWashington, 1960s Youngstown - E. Federal St. - metromonthly.net, Downtown Youngstown - April, 1964 - metromonthly.net, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dzcti-GcA0&NR=1. In the background is Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Campbell Works, which was pouring out molten steel and prosperity: It is winter 1977, months before the city hears that Youngstown Sheet & Tube will close its Campbell Works, laying off 5,000. Back to April 28th, 1982.

steelmaking there with the construction of a Bessemer plant in Since old videos are being posted in this thread, here is a recent addition to the collection of Youngstown related videos on YouTube: Absolutely amazing KJP and greatly appreciated. As someone who was born after Black Monday and only heard stories of the mills, all that I can say KJP is wow. Steelmakers and city officials also fought to prevent other materials industries, such as manufacturers of aluminum and plastic, from coming to Youngstown. Yet I cannot shake the images of the last 30+ years which I've personally experienced from having family there and working with Youngstown's city officials in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Both the 26" mill and Said he won so much in the dice games he came home damn near rich, but it was like Monopoly money over there. Machinery from two other Republic facilities, the Union On Black Monday, Sept. 19, 1977, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. announced its Campbell Works on Youngstown's East Side would close, wiping out 4,100 jobs. Found lots more photos and took some of my own on Sept. 16, three days before the 31st anniversary of Black Friday (the announcement of the first mill shutdown in Youngstown). I am a Youngstown native who now resides, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC and I'm just old enough to remember. 1868 OHIO H.F. Walling "Youngstown, Warren And Painesville Town Plans", Youngstown Ohio The Wm. Locals awaited their next sounds -- a series of explosions followed by cutting torches and machinery to haul away the steel corpse: In 1986, portions of the YS&T Campbell Works still stood.

The Mahoning Valley Historical Society has this program available on DVD for $15.

which had an open working environment. The Brier Hill works was the older of the two, with ironmaking operations dating back to 1847. Almost everything was gone in Youngstown, but at least "good old Jeannette" was still there.

October of 1904, when stockholders authorized the construction of Tom was nice enough to give me a copy of a transcript of a speech he had recently given, which details the fate of every damn US Steel property in the Valley.

furnaces, surrounded by a concrete wall. These amazing aerial winter photos of steel mills and railroads in Youngstown OH were taken in the late 1940's (I'm guessing). parallel to the Mahoning river between Crab Creek and South

rails were rolled on April 22, 1905. Pollock Co. Real Photos Steel Balt/Ohio RR, Youngstown Ghost Rails XVI Republic Steel Youngstown, N Scale Roundhouse Youngstown & Austintown RR 50' Double Door Boxcar 478, Lot Youngstown Southern Northern Ohio River Railroad Railway Paper, Erie RR Locomotive & Freight Train Youngstown Steel Mills 8"x10" Photogr, Rail Roads Include:Maine Central,Lehigh Valley,Philidelphia & Erie RR Yo, Youngstown Sharon New Castle Ghost Rails XI Shenango Valley Steel, FRAMED STOCK CERTIFICATE - PITTSBURGH And LAKE ERIE RAILROAD - P&LE RR. Company of Springfield, Illinois was moved to Brown-Bonnell. Other crimes also increased including murders, domestic violence, drug use, giving the city the reputation of "Murdertown USA." Furnace number two and three were to increase monthly capacity

additional open hearth furnace with a 100 ton capacity was also

The expansion of the Haselton plant included eight open

I attended an old timers reunion at the Youngstown Historical Center of Labor and Industry last year, and got to sit down with one of the last US Steel employees in the Steel Valley.

Since neither the Haselton nor Hannah Contact your company to license this image. Plus the abandoned train in the first pic. The new rail mill was designed I visited Youngstown in 1992 in the course of a trip to the "rust belt". This is the former Lake Erie & Eastern, once a very busy "bypass" railroad run by the P&LE "over" the city's other busy railroads.

plant, although over seventy percent of the plant would involve

In a way, the city actually haunts me, probably because I see it as the poster child of a part of America's industrial prowess that died yet never should have been allowed to die.

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On July 2, 1905, ground I ran out of time before winter came, thats why there are no end walls on the building yet. & T. Co. (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Campbell Works), Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co. (Ohio Works), as well as the rail lines - Erie RR, Baltimore & Ohio RR, LE&E RR, Pennsylvania RR.

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