I've done work at a few landfills that have a methane flare. It doesn't burn all the time but it is there when needed. Some landfills try to sell this excess...
In the early 60's there were huge piles of mine tailings around Scranton, PA. At night you could drive into town and see small blue fires covering these ...
I understand ET is still around 2.5 million tons a year. The rest are gone as steel producers. Clairton still produces coke. Bruce K ... I don't have current...
Please excuse this posting for Mark. My of list communication bounced for some reason Mark, thanks for your inquiry. The Zug Island pictures are on the...
A book just arrived at my doorstep entitled "Rolling Mills, Rolls, and Roll Making. A brief Historical Account of their Development from the Fifteenth Century...
Rick, Does the book have an ISBN#? I started a search for Mac.Hemphill. Found something interesting but losely connected: http://www.lostlabor.com/index.htm ...
My jaw dropped when I saw this website and what they have in Coatesville: http://www.lukensnhd.org/ Why hasn't anyone been talking about this? Rick Rowlands ...
Probably the same reason why people don't talk much about the proposed National Museum of American Industry in Bethlehem ... it's all just lofty plans at the...
Chris, I haven't even heard about their "lofty goals" until I got bored tonight and googled "steel museum". I would certainly like to see the plans for the...
The only two projects right now in my opinion that are making significant progress in the area of an iron and steel museum is the Calumet Industrial Heritage...
We have some of those vehicles at work within the cold sheet complex at Burns Harbor. They are used to push/pull coil cars in and out of the batch anneal...
The website for the Kelham Island Museum states that there are three existing Bessemer converters. They have one. Pittsburgh's Station Square has another....
I think because very few people have even heard of it. I live about 10 miles from the Lukens plant and have never neard of the musuem. --------- Ken McCorry ...
I have posted additional photos of Wheeling Steel, Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel and Weirton in my Album No.3. In addition, there are additional photos in my...
Thanks again for the pics WP North Dr. Booth; the old postcard is very interesting, and looks to have older stoves...any idea when they were rebuilt to the...
Thanks Ray. Coming from you that means a lot. I just do what I can in my own humble way. I think I've explained before that the actual "By the Sweat of their...
Hello all, Some say that bigger is better...well this may be not entirely true.When I started the scratch build,I went into it thinking blindly. I never...
Rick, MacHemp died over a decade ago. They had plants in the South Side of Pittsburgh and in Midland,Pa. The melt shop portion of the South Side works was bull...
In a message dated 10/6/2007 9:53:17 A.M. Central Daylight Time, scmodelworks@... writes: Hi Guys, This is not a steel subject but it is relative to...
In a message dated 10/6/2007 11:10:06 A.M. Central Daylight Time, er-craig1@... writes: Hi, I do alot of work for Alcoa and they get ingot from their...
Hi Group, my Uncle was a Millwright in the Mackintosh Hemphill Midland Plant untill he retired in the 70's. I think I have a book on them also. Have to dig it...
During July of 2003 TICCIH (International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage) at the 12th International Conference in Moscow sponsored...
Is Hyde Park Foundry still making rolls? I had the opportunity, along with some others on this list, to tour the facility 7 or 8 years ago. They had a large...
Brendan, Hyde Park is a plant I forgot about! They came under the control of National Roll some years ago. They pour 2 to 5 rolls per day (depending on size)...
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