"At Steubenville North are two blast furnaces, 11 open hearth furnaces, a blooming mill, a hotstrip mill and cold reduction mills. Principal products of the Steubenville North works include hot-rolled sheets and plates and cold rolled sheets and coils." [OhioCountyLibrary, 1956]
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| Nick Markwitz Jr. shared Don Amiet's post La Belle Ironworks, Steubenville, Ohio; a postcard from my late mother's collection. The postmark date on the back is 1913. Marie Rutan Rugg: Wheeling Steel in later years. My father worked there until he died. Anthony Scurti posted |
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| Mike Maddog Madigan posted Wheeling Pitt North Plant south to north, Steubenville Ohio , the Bridge goes to the Coke Plant in Follansbee WV, You can see the BFs to the left. |
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| Michael Froio Photography posted The remaining blast furnaces of the Wheeling-Pitt North Plant viewed from the Ohio River, Follansbee, West Virginia. The North Plant was one of many industrial landmarks along the Ohio River, complete with a large cantilevered truss bridge that linked the Furnace with various support industry on the West Virginia side of the Ohio including the Coke Works in Follansbee. Track in the foreground is the Wheeling secondary track, on the far bank the PRR's Panhandle Divison Main Line and River branch flanked the former LaBelle furnace converging in Steubenville to the (railroad) east. |
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| Mike Maddog Madigan posted Nice picture of Wheeling Pitt BFs. In Steubenville Ohio. Kyle McGrogan: Probably gone now as Severstal Steel had no interesting in maintaining either one of those artifacts. Its a wonder the Coke Plant in Follansbee's still able to run. |
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| Anthony Scurti posted Wheeling Pittsburgh north blast furnace Graham Whitfield: The Furnaces look very close together, are the two Cast Houses linked ? Curt Barr: Graham Whitfield Yes they share a cast floor #2 taphole faces east and #1 faces west . They were both 16 tuyere furnaces. They were fed by Larry cars . Also both carried 85000 wind #2 was shut down back in the 90 ' s #1 made it's last cast and was shut down permanently 5/5 /2005 . When I started in 1970 ,Wheeling Pitt had 5 Blast Furnaces that were making around 4000 tons a day. I ended my Blast Furnace career in 2008 on #5 furnace in Junction we were holding iron a had a tilting iron spout and a sliding slag spout so we were always able to blow the furnace dry . We also used a soaking bar . We would reverse hammer it out when it cleared the taphole the iron was right behind it. Alan Stacy: That's unique. I have never seen 2 BF share a cast house. I wonder if they ever cast at the same time? |
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| Michael Jones posted another from Wheeling Pitt - Steubenville, Feb 2012 |
I distinctly remember making a post with this photo, but I could not find a Steubenville post. Fortunately, I was able to find this photo again. I remember the photo because Todd Miller refused to correct his comment from "Mingo Jct Ohio" to "Stuebenville, OH." The incorrect comment caused me to waste some time trying to reconcile this photo with the satellite image of Mingo. I need to learn to read the comments on a photo before I research the photo. In Mingo, the bridge is not an extension of the highline as it is here.
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| Jackson Magee shared Todd Miller's post Mingo Jct Ohio [Fortunately, some comments identify the location as Steubenville, OH] Charles Porter: That's #1 & #2 Blast Furnaces in the Steubenville North plant next to the old 45" mill. [Actually, it is #2 & #1 if you list the furnaces from foreground to background.] The bridge connects to the Coke plant in Follansbee. Raymond Boothe posted Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel-Steubenville: View of the North Blast Furnaces (Dr. Raymond Boothe photograph). |
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| Steven Heselden posted Wheeling-Pitt Steel Steubenville, Ohio February 2012 Brian Digman: Good shot can see steam coming out of the quencher at the coke plant across the river. |
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| Michael Jones posted steubenville, oh [Some comments discuss which plants were used in the Deer Hunter movie.] |
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| One of four photos posted by Bubba Dubs Ruins of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel blast furnaces 1 and 2, Steubenville OH Curt Barr: I worked that cast floor for many years . That little shanty was over against the #2 furnace that had been shut down for years. It was the foreman's office . The #1 furnace shut down May 5, 2005 the only furnace left was #5 in Mingo. It was shut down in 2008 . The only part left was the Coke Plant that was shut down at the end of 2022. I worked there at Wheeling Pittsburgh for 47 years. When I started there were over 5000 employees just in my local. When I retired there was between 200 -300 . |
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| Rob Lucas posted Wheeling - Pittsburgh Steel Todd Dillon: nice pic too bad its not yours. |
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| Matt Sell commented on Rob's post Not stolen. |
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| Bob Tucker posted Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Blast Furnace ! From the past! Steubenville, Ohio Mike Lafferty: There were several blast furnaces in the valley in Weirton, Steubenville, Mingo Junction, and Wheeling. All gone now. Stephen Cussen: The shared cast house was neat to see. I asked before but I forgot the answer, when both furnaces were running did they use a separate crew in the cast house for each furnace or did they have only one crew for both furnaces, doing double duty? Thanks in advance. [I did not find an answer.] |
This was a popular view of the blast furnaces and bridge.
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| Brian Digman posted Steubenville ohio Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel 80's or 90's |
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| Dave Hopson posted Cold shut down Blast Furnaces in Steubenville Ohio. Early 2000s. Sad sight. Mark J. Fitzgerald: Could I ask what a cold shut down means? Means all the heat is gone from the stoves and furnaces. Very bad for the interior brickwork. There's no way to stop a blast furnace so during times of slow business the burden is reduced as is the blast from the stoves. This keeps the brickwork warm and the bricks in place. Iron is still produced but at a much lower volume. If the furnace is shut down completely the bricks cool, shrink, and fall into the furnace or stoves. Often requires a complete re-lining of the vessel. Big money. In the 90's when the Cleveland Ohio plant was idled the order came down to shut down the furnace's. It was ignored and they were kept hot with loads of coke. This preserved the furnaces and the plant. The last time I saw a furnace shut down for a reline, they didn't back draft, to take the pressure off the furnace. They "Blew the furnace down." That is with a very heavy coke blanket, they controlled top heat by quenching with water. Reduce the wind SLOWLY until NO ACTIVITY is seen in the peep sights. tuyers are then plugged. Was a guy with a very heavy German accent directing us. After the furnace was cool enough, men went in the furnace and there was NO carbon brick pulled away from the shell. That is exactly what the German engineer said. Stoves were kept at 900 degrees, after the checkers were roded, by outside contractor. After reline, furnace came on smooth. I was a stove tender on #1 furnace (furnace on the right) for several years. Furnace on the left is #2 furnace. Large stack is for the boiler house. Both furnaces used the same cast floor. |
Robert R. DeFrank posted three photos as comments on the fifth photo of a Bubba Dubs post.
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| 1 Mike Egen knocking the dam out on #5 furnace. [I've never heard of a #5 furnace at this plant. According to other comments, the west one was #2 and the east one was #1. Furthermore, #2 leaned. Update: #3 and #5 were in Mingo Junction.] |
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| 2 #1 casting on night turn. You can see the first helper taking samples. |
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| 3 Plugging the hole on night turn. Look what someone wrote on the mud gun. |
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| Rick Rowlands posted Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Steubenville North Plant 2010 C.J. Diequez: Shut down back in like 07 or 08... I work at an old wheeling Pittsburgh steel in mingo junction ohio... all blast furnaces are gone brand new 300 ton eaf... called jsw steel now. |
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| Mike Rupert posted |
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| John Slowikowski commented on Mike's post Same office building half tore down to build a very small truckstop. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on John's comment Fortunately, the satellite images have a delay so I can still find where the office building was. https://www.google.com/.../@40.3530562,-80.../data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| Michael Jones posted wheeling pitt blast furnaces - steubenville, oh |
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| Michael Jones posted another from the Wheeling Pitt furnaces and hot metal car in steubenville Tim Toland: All blast furnaces at former WPSC plants tore to the ground. Number 5 BF was rebuilt in 2007 never was re- lite complete gone now. Charles Porter: That's #2 furnace's #4 stove at the top of the steps. #2 furnace was one of the better cast floors to work on. It was idled in the early 80's. Tim Toland: Charles Porter yea I started in 1990 and it was already shut down. I only worked on 1,3 and 5. Number 4 was already tore down when I started. |
Michael Jones posted four photos with the comment: "a few pictures of mine from steubenville before the demolition."
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I was going to pass on this photo until I read the comment that said they took too much down and now the trestle is unusable.
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| Michael Jones posted steubenville just before final demolition Mike Melko: Once they took the furnace and stoves down the trestle couldn’t be used anymore,lost all structural integrity. Bryan Hockenberry: Those blast furnaces where constructed around 1899 by Labelle Steel. They feed hot iron to the open hearth furnaces to produce Steel. There was a roughing mill rolling ingots to slabs, a hotmill rolling slabs to coils, a pickler line, a tandem mill, annealing floor and more located at the Steubenville plant. I believe the hotmill and open health stopped operating after the BOF and 80 inch hotmill was built in Mingo Jct. I worked at Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel from 1977 to 1981 and enjoy the history of the Steel industry. |
Anthony Scurti provided several photos but they were labeled just Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel. I'm presuming that these were for this location because he added Mingo to some of them and I recognize the bridge as serving this mill.
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| Anthony Scurti posted Wheeling Pitt... |
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| Michael Jones posted me inside the old wheeling pitt furnaces at steubenville (2012) |
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| Kenny Hall posted "Steelworkers Memorial Statue"..Dimitrius Akis-1989..A steelworker sampling molten steel..Located in Steubenville Ohio at the corner of State and Slack Streets. [But those streets don't cross each other.] |
Bubba Dubs posted seventeen interior photos of the blowing engine room.
Dominic Croce commented on a share: from the river #1 & #2 in steubenville. #5 - #3 - #4 in mingo. My bid job was 1st helper on 3. Then I would also work bump keeper up on #1 when I couldn't hold the cold strip dept
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