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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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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