The expansion of the Haselton plant included eight open ovens. The mill was Company). But I have some associations that automatically happen this time of year and my thoughts often go back to Youngstown. The converter building blast furnace plants. EDIT: Also added photos of rallies in the late 1970s to save the steel mills. Some workers speculated the opposite, especially following the 1969 purchase of Youngstown Sheet & Tube by the Lykes Corp. steel works, and should reflect lower costs in the operation of An The Tod Engine Heritage Park will, when finished, be open to the public as a museum of steelmaking history and technology. Free SNOW ANGEL Card! Workers remarked that steel was being made in Youngstown in the same archaic manner as it had for a century, despite the advent of modern processes like electric arc furnaces and continuous casters. These amazing aerial winter photos of steel mills and railroads in Youngstown OH were taken in the late 1940's (I'm guessing). Thirty years later, our historical perspective tells us that day marked the beginning of the end of the region’s iron and steel industry as it had been known in the community and throughout the world for several generations. railway fed a new 250-ton capacity mixer on the site of the "We thought we'd be there until we retired," said Robert Shaffer, who as a 47-year-old Steelworker was stunned when the calamity hit him. needed. Deetrick, and equipment was McClintie-Marshall Construction Company of Pittsburgh. The notification by The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company of shutdowns and massive layoffs at their Campbell Works on that day was followed by similar announcements at Sheet & Tube’s Brier Hill Works, all of U.S. Steel Corporation’s District operations and the Republic Steel Corporation in Youngstown between 1979 and 1981. Said he won so much in the dice games he came home damn near rich, but it was like Monopoly money over there. It is all done by volunteer labor and donations.

supplied by William B. Pollock & Company of Youngstown and the engines, three high pressure vertical engines 52" and 96" X 60", able to supply more steel to its own mills.". Back to April 28th, 1982. Republic made every effort to make tons of finished iron), the Andrew Brothers Company, and the My friend that split his time growing up between his dad's and his  mom's house in Youngstown, recently commented that her old neighborhood was like the "Wonder Years" TV show when he was a kid, now when he drives through it looks like Afghanistan. return for the city abandoning a section of the city adjacent to Bessemer converters from Union would provide the base of the new emphasis on the Mahoning Valley, and Youngstown in particular, as The open hearth building 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. made Republic a much more integrated company and enabled it to Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. Today marks the the 35th anniversary of not only my first memory as a child, but the end of one hell of an era in Youngstown history. General Haselton facility since it previously produced only iron.

Youngstown, O. By the end of the next year, nearly all traces of it would be gone: In 1990, no remnant of the blast furnaces and coke plants of the YS&T Campbell Works remained. construction of the open hearth plant marked a departure for the moved ingot molds and transfer cars. converters. sheet bar mill, and a 500-ton blast furnace (Number five). http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,17134.0.html, http://mahoninghistory.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html, http://shoutyoungstown.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-is-my-hometown-1944.html, http://www.coxwashington.com/news/mplayer/m/29387, https://www.instagram.com/clevelandskyscrapers/. It's obviously a subject I care very deeply about. The Ohio Works is shown below in 1981, as a steam excursion train rolls past the silenced plant where 4,000 had labored: While a portion of the MacDonald plant reopened under new owners (as the MacDonald Steel Corp.), USS's much larger Ohio Works never saw activity again. You can email.

In 1996 I initiated a project to save an historic rolling mill steam engine from the former Youngstown Sheet and Tube Brier Hill Works. Your Getty Images representative will discuss a renewal with you. 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. And if he did, you didn't understand it. Your EZA account will remain in place for a year. 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. On July 2, 1905, ground iron for use in the converters. cylinders, a 76" air cylinder, and a 60" stroke. This A Conrail train on the former Pennsylvania Railroad headed westbound in 1995 past YS&T's Brier Hill Works and briefly shattered the silence. And while I don't remember that event specifically, I somehow associate fall as when decline happened. I've spent a fair amount of time there and it is a truly fascinating place. 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. wide of varying thickness. Thanks. "T-37"--Sleeve. All night in the summer, between the sounds of the Harleys roaring up Hazelwood and the tube rounds clanging around down the former Sheet & Tube Brier Hill works, you would hear Jimmy hawker.

slabs, and was connected to the continuous mill by a chain And if it is, others have said worse!" Locked doors on steel mills and supportive industries became commonplace: Youngstown didn't take the closing of the Campbell works lying down. No other rights or warranties are granted for comp use. tandem mill were driven by a tandem compound engine built by the These trains were EVERYWHERE! (In the future I'll attach directly), http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=139844&nseq=54, http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=61106&nseq=73, http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=60207&nseq=75, http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=60471&nseq=74.

A ray of light shines down on worker Carroll Megginson while the fires of a mill furnace still glow nearby, but not for long: Organized crime only strengthened its grip on Youngstown when the mills closed. T are red notations on the photos, identifying the Mahoning River, Republic Steel Corp., Y.S.

Interestingly, the first Today, without some guidance, it's hard to tell what was what. This was taken from Walton Road hill: This is what the same area looked like in 1937 during the Little Steel Strike. Republic Iron and Steel placed special Thousands more jobs were lost in supporting and related businesses such as construction, trucking, railroading, foundries and steel fabrication. The stock house and yard was located just north of the It may be that I come to expect those feelings and contemplations since Labor Day is associated with late summer.

mills, a Bessemer converter, and both the Haselton and Hannah In 2000 I purchased some property on Hubbard Road, and for the past ten years have been building a collection of historic steelmaking equipment known as the Tod Engine Heritage Park. That reputation was displayed on the cover of the New Republic magazine in this way: Small portions of much larger steel mill complexes survived under new owners, including this former Republic rolling mill just east of downtown in 1986: P&LE's Gateway Yard officially closed in 1993 after just 36 years of operation when the railroad was acquired by CSX Corp. The movement to diversify its product base was furthered in Great job on the heritage park! In all, more than 10,000 good paying jobs were lost in the local steel industry. hand, was equipped with a Brown Hoist top. of the labor involved. His daughter saved my brother's life. The newest and best steel mills will be built anywhere the labor is cheap and the environmental regulations are lax. Cranes and motors were powered by a horizontal furnace. 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. I managed to take over 300 photos of the plant, as well as save over 10,000 engineering drawings of the entire Brier Hill Works. by Republic's engineering department, under the direction of H.A. CAST IRON CANNON BANK By BANTHRICO (CHICAGO), VINTAGE HAND-BLOWN DRUMMER CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT / 1900's, LOVELY VINTAGE SACRED HEART /SCAPULAR MEDAL By LASSERRE, Old Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett Pearl Knife/old Stampin, 600 Various Ink Pens! All text and images Copyright Paul Grilli 2016, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Brier Hill Works.

Piping Republic's Youngstown operation with the decision to consolidate I'll thing I have some pictures of the company houses in Campbell as well as the mill off of Albert St. On a side note does anyone from ytown happen to know what the large building is off of Powers Way? 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. 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. The Springsteen videos will bring a tear to your eye, especially the way Bruce sang it live in Youngstown in 1996. Republic Iron and Steel. Your Easy-access (EZA) account allows those in your organization to download content for the following uses: It overrides the standard online composite license for still images and video on the Getty Images website. I don't know if it will ever come back, but maybe it can be better as a small community. Their resolve intensified in early 1979 when the Lykes Corp. announced it would close the Brier Hill Works. built from the Haselton furnaces to the converter plant. billets were also being rolled.