I'm learning more and more that Ohio was one of the states that made a lot of steel.
William B. Pollock founded the company in 1863 in Youngstown, OH. I don't know when they built the Marion plant.
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| David Brown posted, cropped 1930s Pollack Steel Marion Ohio. Armco, Marion Steel, Now Nucor AmyDoug Fam: At least there is still a mill there. David Brown: AmyDoug Fam they just put 85 million in the rolling mill. Harley Decal: I worked there in the late 60's. The crane rails has two 250v DC 15ton bridge cranes from the San Diego ship yards . The first one used a power magnet to move rail from the rail road rail breaker to stock pile for the mill crane to feed the furnace that feeds the rolling mill. When the rail roads replaced used rails Pollock Steel bought box car loads . |
William B. Pollock founded the company in 1863 in Youngstown, OH. I don't know when they built the Marion plant.
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When I read the sign on the building above, I remembered that Pollock was one of the manufactures of bottle cars.
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| Raymond Boothe posted via Dennis DeBruler |
"Pollock earned a reputation as an innovative pioneer in the iron and steel industry in part by its redesign and reconstruction of blast furnaces, replacing old stone stack furnaces with large iron plate furnaces to increase capacity, efficiency, and output. A blast furnace produces pig iron from iron ore for subsequent processing into steel, and its name comes from the “blast” of hot air blown into the lower part of the furnace at a temperature as high as 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. The Pollock Company engineered their first iron plate blast furnace for Youngstown’s Himrod Furnace Company in 1887, and subsequently built an additional 74 iron plate furnaces for global use within its first 75 years. The company also played a role in rebuilding and remodeling existing blast furnaces to create capacity and output improvements, and tackled a staggering 450 furnaces by 1938, when it took over the remodel of the Trumbull Cliffs Furnace of Republic Steel Corporation. This rebuild resulted in the largest blast furnace in the world, breaking a world record in 1943 at the height of World War II for iron produced within a 24-hour period." [OhioHistory]
The plant was closed in 1983.
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| TheRustJungle by Paul Grilli |
This would be the stockpile of used rail and the crane rails that Harley mentioned in his comment on the post at the top of these notes.
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| 1 of several images in Mike's World |
Nucor now makes rebar in this plant. [BizJournals]
The C&O/Hocking Valley Railroad was on the west side, and the NS/Pennsy was on the east side.
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| 1961 Marion West Quad @ 24,000 |
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