Washington, PA: 1947-1999 ATI/Allegheny Ludlum/Washington Steel Mill

(Satellite, "Was located on Woodland Avenue off Jefferson Avenue" [RootsWeb])

"Washington Steel was the first U.S. company to use a Sendzimir Mill to cold-roll stainless steel." [wikipedia]

Allegheny Ludlum  became a founding member of ATI in 1996, and this plant was closed just three years later.

Steve Kashuba posted 23 photos and videos with the comment: "This used to be Washington steel rolling mill."

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This is what happens when a roll stops and a hot slab keeps going. OOPS looks like ribbon candy

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Oops

1:36 video of the coil storage area and then the end of the rolling mill and then an overhead crane with a C-hook

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Grease fire being kept under control with a fire hose

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Laborer putting out a grease fire

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Running a overhead remote controlled crane

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Another hard working lady operating the furnaces

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Craneman picking up slab with tongs. Hepenskull

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In the process of rolling a slab

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A slab after first pass through the roughing mill

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One of my dear friends that passed too early. He was a overhead crane operator

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The roughing mill

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The roughing mill operator rolls the slab from this booth

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The furnace operator raising the cold slab into a furnace

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A slab being raised into the furnace

A 1:53 video of the roughing mill doing all of the passes needed to feed the finishing mill

[This confirms for me that a roughing mill has just one stand and the slab reverses direction several times.]

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A slab ready to go into a furnace for reheat

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A very long way to go for a slab to become a coil

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A hot slab ready to be rolled into a coil [with cold slabs on the left ready to be reheated.]

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A cold slab ready to be loaded into a furnace

On the south side of this excerpt B&O is on the left and Pennsy is on the right so they both go past the plant.

1954 Washington West Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

Kellen Hodge posted two photos with the comment: "Washington Steel Melt Shop slag pot leaving the AOD."

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