Patrick: When the Ford Rouge Plant opened in 1927 it was the world's first fully integrated automobile plant that started with iron ore and delivered finished...
If you go ... Where: A number of Craig McPherson's steel works, as well as works inspired by theater, are on display through May 27 at the Forum Gallery, 745...
Kevin Those cars would be nice to model. I cannot read/recognize the manufactuer logo on the cars from the photos. Question does anyone know who manufactures...
Thanks Jim for your excellent description of "The Rouge" at it's prime. I was just wondering, what plants had the largest number of employees? Some examples: ...
Who makes slag cars and bottle cars. The mill that's going to use them or are they build like regular railroad cars, from a out side company. Does the steel...
I was invited to attend a bus tour of South East Chicago's industrial area, two weeks ago. The center point of this trip was the group of people trying to...
Hello, No...they were checking some stuff on the roof that was loose.....that building which used to be old open hearth is now used for storage of blast...
The Blast Furnaces may be gone, but the Blast or Cowper Stoves still stand at Duquesne, PA: http://www.pbase.com/dsktc/image/44186078/large Does anyone know...
William B. Pollock Co. in Youngstown, Pennsylvania Engineering (PECOR) in New Castle, PA and Treadwell Engineering in Easton, PA were the only builders of...
When I was a young Machinist, we machined the trunions off of and replaced on some MOHR ladles for I think LTV. It was a big enough job that we had to cut an...
I hope to add a steel fabricating shop to my future model railroad layout, but I need some assistance on a few details. First, in regards to the outdoor crane...
ASBESTOS They're full of it and its cheaper and safer to leave then because of it. The costs to remove them because of the Asbestos was extremely high. ... ...
Donald Most of the cars were made by outside companies. some big names in the Twentieth Century were Pollack & Tredwell. I am not sure of the status of...
Hello, Asbestos - same with the bridge over by the carrie furnace.....during training on the URR I asked why they don't tear it down and I was told in order to...
I am not sure about the lining in the stoves, however, soaking pits( used to reheat ingots)had sheets of asbestos about 1" thick applied to the wall first. The...
Hi! The stoves might not have enough salvage value to be worth knocking down; not too much metal and a lot of hard to resell brick? The asbestos issue would...
Hi! For my two cents worth I would run at least 3 car lengths of siding under and parallel to the crane runway and have a siding at least entering the erecting...
I've got some shots of High Steel's plant in Lancaster. If I can find them, I'll scan them and post them. But basically, the plant stretched across a road....
I just returned from the Northwest Indiana Regional Archives at IUN in Gary. I looked through a couple dozen boxes of material trying to find more about my...
Ya i'll take one for $10.00 also, just send us ur mailing address Les Crawford Canadian Eastern Inland RR 205 Cliffside Dr. Shellbyville, TN 37075 ... ...
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