This site was initially used by Woods Works.
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| McKeesport Past posted National Tube McKeesport Shared by James Swift Derrick Parfitt: Looking east (roughly) James Torgeson shared USS National Tube Works - McKeesport |
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| Ray Schloss commented on James' share Isn’t it Dura-Bond Pipe now? Jason Sessoms: Ray Schloss yes running the old ERW lines. Ian Hapsias: Rick Rowlands you’re looking at the Yough River in this photo. Photographer took this from Dravosburg along the edge of the hillside. McKeesport’s People’s Building is dead center frame. The Monongahela would be bottom of the frame if it were included. |
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| Bob Dranko posted 1915 McKeesport, PA Steel Mill & Blast Furnace Jay Krajcovic shared |
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| Jessica Van Glana posted The old blast furnaces of National Tube company, McKeesport Pa Year unknown Kajal Chauhan posted The old blast furnaces of National Tube company, McKeesport Pa . Year unknown James Ujevich: I remember seeing them demolished in 85. Heartbreaking 💔 |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted The National Tube Works in McKeesport, Allegheny County in 1910. (Photo from http://www.steelcactus.com/) |
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| 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 posted McKeesport PA • 1950s! |
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| Steve Pierce posted The work continued on the blooming mill outage in 1954. The two new turbo-blowers were installed in the blast furnace blowing room and were designed to deliver 90,000 cfm of air at 25 lbs. pressure to assure adequate blowing capacity for a sustained 4 blast furnace operation. The turbine end of these blowers operated on steam at 850 lbs. pressure and 750 degrees F. and exhausted at 150 Ibs. pressure into the existing plant steam system, part of which powered the blooming mill steam engine. And here is the blooming mill with the guys working on the final punch list. |
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| Jeff Picka posted At the site of the National Tube Works, McKeesport PA. A good history timeline for the plant can be found here: http://www.tubecityonline.com/steel/nat_works_timeline.html |
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Bob Clementi posted two images with the comment: "Tube City-McKeesport PA I came across a number of 8X10 photos I saved when we cleaned the file room at the office."
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| Frank Jacobs III posted National Tube, Pittsburgh. Did any of you work here? |
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| Ross Cameron commented on Frank's post Actually McKeesport PA. My home town. I was just a kid when all the mills closed. It says 1987 but I would have sworn it was much earlier. |
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| Kenny Hall posted Jeff Madden .. Blast Furnace in McKeesport Pa. William Moutz: I believe those were Bessemer Furnaces . John Groves: Yes definitely Bessemer converters |
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| Patrick Tuttle posted A single word says it all; "Homestead". Kris Rossmiller: This photo is McKeesport. |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted The National Tube Works in McKeesport, Allegheny County in 1910. (Photo from http://www.steelcactus.com/) Jack Davis shared |
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| McKeesport Memories posted The color photo was a sort of fold out poster of National Tube. I have no idea where this one came from. Deborist Benjamin: http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-252 James Torgeson shared |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted Blast Furnaces of the National Tube Company in McKeesport, Allegheny County in the 1960's. Jack Davis shared |
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| Charles Geletzke Jr. posted P&LE 1591 at McKeesport, PA on April 29, 1979. (Jack G. Tyson photo) [With at least one blast furnace in the background.] Jason Sessoms: When did the hot end of national tube shut down? Joseph Sapienza: Jason Sessoms 1985 Dave Brown: WE interchanged with the P&LE West of here URR had a small Yard called the P&LE Yard #62 Crew we hauled these Subs to Duquesne BOF...70's.. James Torgeson shared Dan Arbster: worked on Union railroad, and we would load those subs and take them from Duquesne mill to the P&LE at Edgar Thompson and they would take them to national tube in McKeesport. |
Kevin Tomasic posted seven photos with the comment: "A few more oldies for everyone. USS National Tube in McKeesport, PA. Keith Clouse and I spent a lot of time here in the early 80's shooting the blast furnaces and the Alco switchers that called the mill home. The mill was served by Chessie (B&O), Conrail (PRR), P&LE and had it's own railroad, the McKeesport Connecting."
Ian Hapsias: Almost everything in this picture today is gone. Steel making stopped in 1981, pipe production stopped in 1986, last 21 employees left the plant for the final time in 1987.
Ian Hapsias: Durabond is there running the ERW lines.
Louis Toman: Last McKeesport Connecting crew retired 2013, then was merged into Union Railroad.
Sam Carroll: It was at one time, the largest pipe mill in the world.
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| Comments on Kevin's post |
I went further south from the plant to catch the B&O label in the lower-left corner.
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| 1953 Mc Keesport Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
See B&O Depot and Tower for an aerial photo.
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted Monongahela Blast Furnaces in the City of McKeesport, Allegheny County in 1914. Jack Davis shared |
Adam Norris posted three photos with the comment: "Pipe mill previously owned by US Steel now operated by domestically owned Dura-Bond Pipe in McKeesport, PA."
William Postelmans: electric weld tubing
Rick Laughery: Too bad Drew ran all the experienced people out of there, I left because of him and I worked in that building for 24 years !
Dan Harkins: They got too deep in the business to support fracking. When that dried up so did the need for all the piping.
Bob Clementi: USS. First National Tube, then Camp Hill, then USS again, now Dura-bond. The rest of McKeesport Works was idled in the ‘80,s after the USS Fairfield Seamless Pipemill opened in Alabama.
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Brandon Peck posted four photos of photos with the comment: "I have this photo but u can see Baltimore and Ohio steam engine in it."
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| Dave Kuntz posted Durabond pipe plant in McKeesport PA Scott Elliott: Worked in that building loading RR cars with 16" pipe when it was USS ERW (Electric Resistance Weld). William David: That was the old national tube works for USS. It was re- opened by USS in the early to mid 2000’s and then sold to Durabond . My dad started there in in 1962 $2.10 / hr before transferring to homestead works a few years later. |
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| Jacob H. Ford Photography posted Taking it back to a few weeks ago, to an afternoon I spent in McKeesport capturing some images of the old roundhouse, but also decided to get this composition of some of the other old buildings that were once part of the National Tube Works Co. These buildings have since been restored and repurposed, while the original architecture remains preserved. I thought these were interesting looking buildings, and would make for an interesting composition. The building on the left now serves as Consortium for Public Education. The little mound of melted snow along Industry Road throughout this business park leads to this building and some others that look similar, and gives this composition nice depth and perspective. The afternoon lighting was also particularly nice in this composition. Enjoy! Photo taken: February 22, 2025 |
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