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| Street View, Aug 2016 |
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| Street View, Nov 2015 |
Graham Williams posted five photos with the comment: "Buckeye steel / Columbus steel castings. This is where I fell in love with steel. Sadly it was demolished in 2018, but it's what ignited the fire."
Bill Sturgess: Buckeye Steel Casting Co. Columbus, Ohio (as I knew it from about 1965 till it closed in about 2017) was a foundry (not a steel mill). They cast large steel railroad car castings such as the sideframes, bolsters and couplers. At some point I was told-this was-the largest steel casting facility under one roof, in the world.
They made railroad truck frames and cuplers but also did large castings.
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| 3 Paul Chester: I worked at American Steel in Granite City where we made bolsters and side frames as a chipper and grinder. I still suffer from the carpal tunnel in my hands 40 years later. Debra Malmkar Marler: Paul Chester that’s the hardest job in the foundry! |
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| 5 [The are some comments about this is pre-OSHA, and it looks like today's China.] Kathi Borowski: What is he doing? Alex Beauregard: Kathi Borowski gunning of the topring's laddle. |
The office building is featured on webpages that talk about endangered buildings.
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| Street View, Aug 2016 |
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| ColumbusLandmarks, this web page has a gallery of photos of the plant "Dating back to 1881 as the Murray-Hayden Foundry, Columbus Castings / Buckeye Steel was the largest single site steel foundry in North America. It manufactured steel castings for freight and passenger rail cars, locomotives, mining equipment, and other heavy industrial industries. The company was moved to the current Parsons Avenue location in 1902 when the name was changed to the Buckeye Steel Castings Company. The facility covers an area of over 90 acres, of which 22 are under roof. Buckeye Steel was once led by Samuel Prescott Bush, grandfather of President George H.W. Bush. Columbus Castings halted operations on May 9, 2016 after filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Reich Brothers of White Plains, New York purchased the site at auction in August 2016 and have begun environmental remediation. They have retained CB Richard Ellis to work on the property’s re-development and have not yet disclosed plans." |
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| OhioHistoryCentral "Employees gathered around a ladle that poured hot metal at the Buckeye Steel Castings Company in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1912-1919." "In 1881, Buckeye Steel Castings began producing iron castings in Columbus, Ohio. The company struggled until it shifted its product to automatic car couplers for railroads. The firm quickly grew, primarily due to the demand for its couplers as well as the lack of major strikes. Company workers appreciated the firm's attempts to establish various benefit programs, including a dispensary, a hospital, washrooms, kitchens, and locker rooms. Buckeye Steel Castings also supported a company baseball team and provided the workers with life insurance in 1917" When they built the 1902 plant, they switched from steel to iron for the castings. |
The plant is near the upper-left corner of this excerpt. The railyard is the CSX/C&O Parsons Yard.
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| 1958 Southeast Columbus Quad @ 24,000 |
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| AbandonedOnline, this webpage has several more photos and a detailed history The previous location at "Russell Street near North 4th Street" is now covered by highways. |
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| dispatch, this webpage has several photos of the demolition It looks like the office building was the last to be torn down. |
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| Steven Heselden posted Interior view Columbus Steel Castings AKA Buckeye Steel Columbus, Ohio demolished 2021 |
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| CommericalSearch By now (3Q 2023), the Castings Commerce Park should have 859,240 sq ft in three buildings. |
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