The YS&T Campbell Works were just south of Youngstown.
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| Carrie Taylor posted Republic Iron & Steel-Youngstown, OH back in the day... |
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| Carrie Taylor posted Aerial shot found framed in one of the old offices - Youngstown Republic Steel. Ian Hapsias: That’s a nice shot. How many coke batteries did they at Republic? John Tyger: Ian Hapsias A B and C T.J. Johnson Sr.: There was a "D", back in the day... The old foundation was still there when I worked there and an old door was still hanging on the spare hanger on the East coal bunker. In this picture, it looks like the "Newest" "C" battery hadn't been built yet. |
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| Jon Wolfe posted 1937 Youngstown sheet and tube |
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| Rick Damico posted “The Bessemer Steel Plant At Night, Youngstown, Ohio” - Always a fan of the night scenes of mill shots, this postcard is a favorite of mine on account of the labeling. This is actually the plant of Republic Iron & Steel, however republic’s name is mentioned nowhere on this card as you can see. The newly completed Bessemer Converters which revolutionized steel making & the industry were very clearly the talk of the town at the time of this postcard & the mislabeling tells as such. - Postcard collection Mark Adamcik: Rick, thank you for posting this. I remember seeing a photo of the YS&T Bessemer shop. The vessels were partially exposed to the weather. |
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| Rick Rowlands posted Youngstown Sheet & Tube Brier Hill Works early 1980s John Horn: Manufacturer of the best well pipe in history. Mark Leskovec: John Bizub Brier Hill had two blast furnaces, Jenny and Grace. Matt Gordon: I see 2 cast houses but 1 furnace . Anyone know the story of the Jeanette furnace !! Rick Handlebar Ostheimer: Matt Gordon Both Jeanette and Grace were torn down even though some locals had tried to save one or the other as a tourist attraction. I knew people in YS&T production planning who found these furnaces useful as with about half the production of the 4 furnaces in Campbell they could serve to match molten iron production with the needs of the order book. |
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| William Standford commented on Rick's post |
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| William Standford commented on Rick's post |
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| Mark Leskovec commented on Rick's post Bruce Springteen with "Jenny" at the Briar Hill Works, which is mentioned in his song Youngstown. |
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| John Bizub commentged on Rick's post The blast furnace’s at the Campbell plant supplied the Open Hearth Furnaces at Brier Hill plant with hot molten iron. Mark Leskovec: John Bizub Brier Hill had two blast furnaces, Jenny and Grace |
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| David Holoweiko posted New C furnace, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company (East Youngstown, Ohio) 1910 |
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| Jon Wolfe posted Steel mill along Mahoning River, 1962 Shane W Meister: I believe this is the blast furnace plant (5 of them til maybe mid 60s) of Republic's Youngstown works, or "Haselton" works. Pretty sure view is looking approx. northwest from the Center Street bridge. |
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| Rick Damico posted “Blast furnaces of civil war days are shown in this painting of the Brier Hill furnace in the 1860’s. These furnaces were named Grace No. 1 & Grace No. 2.” Taken from a 1938 Youngstown Vindicator article on the rise of steel & industry in the area. Vindicator “pages from history” archival book from my collection. Mark Mook: I always wondered what Youngstown manufactured for the Civil War. |
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| Rick Damico posted Rare view on this 1914 mailed “Republic Tube Works” postcard from Youngstown, Ohio. Thought you’d all enjoy. I myself am a huge fan of the early postcards with the mill pictorials. Haven’t seen this one before. Grabbed a great stack of local postcards today. Lots of rare ones; this one being no exception. Larry Sr Rohrbaugh: The Mahoning River in the foreground. |
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| Rick Damico posted 1913 winter night scene of Republic Iron & Steel works, Youngstown, Ohio. Taken from the market street bridge. Another one from my postcard collection. A cool view to see in the nighttime version. |
Kurt Boldt posted four photos with the comment: "Aerial view Youngstown Sheet and Tube."
[Photos 2-4 are at Facebook resolution.]
Bill Spiker: in one way or another i worked there from 1969 until 2000. Started at the rod and wire lab, then worked idle department in the rod mill, wire mill, cold strip, blooming mill, and mason gang....then ended up in the track gang and general labor. When J&L took over i transferred to the railroad division (Mahoning Vally Rwy) and worked as brakeman and loco operator, then supervisor of maintenamce and then general supervisor of maintenance until January of 2001 when the MV was sold and I stayed with LTV, transferring to Cleveland until LTV went out of business and I retired with 33 years.
Kenneth Treharn: Hmm, Campbell Works. I started at YS&T's Brier Hill Works, Open Hearth Melt Shop in 1968. Around the early 1970's I worked Idle Department, 2 weeks at Campbell Cold Strip finishing Dept. Then back to Brier Hill for a month. Then I got send to Struthers Merchant Mills. I worked a week on the "mine bolt machine" and a week on the Rebar Mill, then back to Brier Hill Open Hearth and I was never layed off or idle department again till the Brier Hill shutdown 1980. I went straight to GATX till they went under. Then to the new electric furnace Melt Shop at Valley Mould till they screwed it up. Then to National Gypsum, till they screwed it up also. 😊 I then went to Republic/WCI/Several/R&G Steel till they bankrupted a very profitable Mill in 2012. Luckily because both YS&T and Republic had been LTV companies, I got to connect my YST time with my Warren time for a 35 year pension even though there was 48 years between my first day in the Mill and my last. 👍
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| V.J. Petrella commented on a post Vallourec Star, Youngstown, Ohio. |
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| Rick Rowlands posted Brier Hill Steel Co. Coke Plant in Youngstown, OH. Built 1918. Carnegie Steel Co. Ohio Works blast furnaces across the river. |
Mahoning Valley Railroad Heritage Association posted three photos with the comment:
The two hot metal cars owned by the MVRHA were built by the M.H. Treadwell Co. in Easton, PA in the 1930s for Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Numbered 21 and 23, they were part of a four car order that included cars 22 and 24. The cars were needed to supply molten iron to the open hearths at the YS&T Brier Hill Works which had been revamped to produce slabs for the 79" hot strip mill and tube rounds for the Campbell seamless tube mills. Jeannette and Grace at Brier Hill did not have enough capacity to satisfy those hot metal needs by themselves.These three photos show the cars in their as built appearance. Later rebuilds would see the original Pilcher trucks rtepalced with Buckeye trucks, the brake systems rebuilt and in the case of 21, an entirely new ladle made by William B. Pollock Co.The fleet of Treadwell cars (along with five more built by Pollock) would spend their lives shuffling back and forth over the Lake Erie & Eastern Railroad moving hot metal to Brier Hill, passing through the southern edge of downtown Youngstown a couple of times per day. Alas, finding in service photos of them on the LE&E has been rather difficult.
Tim Walter: I can remember seeing a bottle car from a hundred feet away and feeling the heat radiating out. Also remember the endless lines of Stonys trucks traveling on route 46. They were carrying hot ingots under corrugated steel dog houses.
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Lawrence Chance posted four photos with the comment: "Views of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Brier Hill Works c.1970. I was just learning photography at the time."
Stephen Walker: YS&T was the first major shutdown in the collapse of the steel industry. One day operating the next week gone. This is just my opinion. I graduated high school in 1976 and lived in Western Pennsylvania so I was very aware of the employment opportunities in the early 80s.
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| Brian Joyce posted Youngstown. USS and YS&T. Brier Hill area Kenneth Treharn: I spent 12 years in YS&T's Brier Hill Works, Open Hearth Melt Shop. The building house's Vallourec pipe mill presently. WP Woodall: This is the Blast furnace that Bruce Springsteen wrote about. The song is called “Youngstown “. |
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| Jon Wolfe posted Vallourec star Youngstown Ohio 2021 Queensborough Mill at bottom is former YS&T Brier Hill Works. Entire property is former YS&T land as well. Upper mill is smaller diameter pipe for oil industry. Bottom mill is melt shop and larger diameter pipe. Duane McCarty: Was this also the former Northstar Steel. [Other comments indicate it was also V&M Star.] |
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| Jon Wolfe posted Hot Saws Vallourec Star Youngstown Ohio David Metcalf: Actually the split saw. Mike Scott: There is a hot saw like that at the tube mills where I work. It is only used for sample cuts, first piece of the order, before either the cooling bed or the anneal furnace. No inline crops or mult cuts. Tubes are cropped and cut to size at robotic cold finishing lines with carbide saws. Paul Chester: I find that a strange idea. Seems the cutting torches were a better idea. Danny Barger: Paul Chester no. The saws maintain a more accurate cut plus you're not gobbering up the piece with slag. That's the other part of this, an oxy/acy torch introduces oxygen into the steel before its done being processed. Not good. [A lot of comments about how loud it was. One comment indicated it was a screeching sound.] |
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| Doug Fields commented on Jon's post Same Hot Saw back in 1988 when it was North Star Steel Ohio. 35 years ago. |
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| David Holoweiko posted Youngstown Sheet and Tube Youngstown Ohio 1948 Ryan William posted Youngstown Sheet and Tube Youngstown Ohio 1948 |
It was served by Erie, LE&E and Pennsy; and LE&E was a subsidiary of NYC.
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| 1951 Youngstown and 1954 Girard Quads @ 24,000 |
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| Steel Valley Artifacts - Youngstown, OH posted Sheet & Tube and Mesta Machine all in one! Mike Theisler shared |
They got their steel from the Republic Warren Mill. [John Hynes comment on a post]
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