Dorchester, WI: Lost/SOO Depot and Feed Mill

Depot: (Satellite, as we have seen in many Midwest towns, the depot's land has been absorbed by the co-op.)

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

 

Raymond Storey posted
DORCHESTER WIS

Colin Harding: According to my 1940 Official Guide on the Soo

Sheila Gorke Steinmetz posted
Dorchester Train Depot 1908, the building is no longer there but the building behind it on the left still is.
Jim Kelling shared
Raymond Storey posted
DORCHESTER WIS

Colin Harding: According to my 1940 Official Guide on the Soo

In addition to animal feed (I spotted three feed trucks), the co-op sells propane and fertilizers.

Street View, Aug 2023

The Wisconsin Central arrived in 1873. CN now owns the route. [ClarkCountyWI] Kudos to CN because a Class I railroad is still providing carload service to the co-op. I see nine hopper cars on the siding.

Satellite

H-89, 07/20/1951

Sandusky, OH: Bay Junction (BJ): NS/NYC+A/NKP/LE&W+A/Big Four vs. NS/Pennsy/TC&O and (BO): NS/NYC vs. A/B&O Towers

BJ: (Satellite)

BO: (Satellite, the B&O used to go north/south through the Columbus Ave. crossing.)

A = Abandoned

TC&O = ?

Darren Reynolds posted two images with the comment:

Conrails (EX-NYC) 

"BJ" tower (Bay Jct.)

Sandusky, Ohio 

This tower is no longer standing

Tim Shanahan shared

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The 2005 SPV Map labels the track along the lakefront as LE&W. Obviously, Pennsy snarfed up the TC&O route.

1959/60 Sandusky Quad @ 24,000

The LE&W used to go straight through the BJ Junction, loop around the lakefront and then south down to the BO Junction. Note that Pennsy built their dock after 1904, maybe even after 1941.

1904/41 Sandusky Quad @ 62,500

This was the Lake Erie part of the LE&W Railroad.

Map via NKPHTS via Dennis DeBruler

Charles Town, WV: 1914-2012 N&W Depot

(Satellite, Joseph's URL)

The B&O depot was near the downtown.

Joseph Topping posted

The Charles Town, W. Va., Norfolk & Western station during peak operations, likely between 1915 and 1920.

https://blog.coltex.net/charles-town-norfolk-western.../

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nD4iLi3BRM3rCdrz5

Jim Kelling: Visited on the 2012 RRSHS tour, the station was demolished a few years later.

[Actually, it was torn down in 2012.]

Joseph commented on Jim's comment
Here is the station being demolished.

1955/57 Middleway and 1953/53 Charles Town Quads @ 24,000 via Dennis DeBruler

Franklin C: West Franklin, IL: Southern Gem #1 Coal Mine

(Satellite, the land of the tipple has been repurposed for industrial use.)

Rager Kujawa posted
llinois IL West Frankfort Southern Gem Coal Co Mine Postcard Old Vintage Card seen on eBay.

Heath Smith: Where was this at in town?

Directory

Map

Dennis DeBruler commented on Heath's comment

Galena, IL: Galena Tower: IC vs. CB&Q

(Satellite)

William Brown posted
From the "Historic Galena" Facebook page, in 1915 in Galena, Illinois, near the former Marine Hospital, this interlocking tower protected the CB&Q/IC Crossing on the east side of the river. Did it also control the lift bridge?

Greg Bonnell: I was not aware that the CB&Q went through Galena at one time. Was this just a branch line?

John Snapp:Greg Bonnell Yes, it was a 4 mile branch line from Galena Jct. to Galena. The tower was built in 1900. The CB&Q spur to Galena perhaps abandoned circa 1961.

Tim Shanahan shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on William's post
Since that is the Marine Hospital (https://maps.app.goo.gl/qiw6yJeWiyz6HeQi7) in the right background of the photo, I think the tower is along the IC track that goes along the front of William's photo. So the tower was in the southeast quadrant of the crossing. 1913 Galena Quad @ 62,500

Princeton, KY: Lost/IC Depot

(Satellite)

Jordan Dunn posted two photos with the comment: ""Illinois Central Train Depot in Princeton, KY 1908. I had seen this photo many times before but never noticed the person in the window.

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I did not realize until I got the topo maps below, that this town was were the two IC branches in Kentucky intersected.

Bill Molony posted via Dennis DeBruler

1954/54 Evansville Quad @ 250,000

1910/42 Princeton Quad @ 62,500

I started by looking for a building between the two branches. Instead, the depot was along the Memphis & Louisville route.

Feb 27, 1952 @ 18,000; AR1TA0000050048

Allenport, PA: LTV/J&L/Wheeling-Pittsburgh/Pittsburgh Steel

(Satellite)

 

Bill Brown posted
This picture was posted in 2011 as a yesteryear pic in our local Valley Independent newspaper. It shows the Wheeling Pittsburgh Allenport Steel Plant while it was still in full production. Front buildings were the sheet mills and the rear buildings were the tube mills.

Frank Jacobs III posted
Family photo. Allenport Pa mill. 1925

Frank Jacobs III posted
Allenport Pa., 1953
J Chuck Porter: J&L, LTV
Phil Masini: Must be management during a strike. Never saw steelworkers dress like that. 
John Miller: That's a great picture! These white shirts in the picture are men setting this unit up. Looks brand new.!
Frank Jacobs III: John Miller yes.
Brian Wise: Allenport finally shut its doors in June 2008.

Greg Hamer posted
Wheeling Pittsburgh,  Allen Port plant. From the Fayette City side of the river.  Before they tore it down.

Joe Mccombs: That line is still running,in China

Robert Moroz Marten Raud posted
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, Allenport Works,… — PICRYL ...

Robert Kennedy: I love the brick work in old factory buildings. Looks like part of the steam plant. The big expansion loop caught my attention immediately; I remember that feature of the steam works.

http://www.historic-structures.com/pa/monessen/monessen_steel.php

1954 Fayette City @ 1:24,000

 

Jon Wolfe posted

Six-stand Hot Sheet Mill

Allenport (Pa.) Works

Pittsburgh Steel Company

Rich Paskash: Looks like an 80" mill. Centering device at each stand.

Jeremy Lydon posted

The Mon - Six-stand Hot Sheet Mill Allenport (Pa.) Works Pittsburgh Steel Company John L. Alexandrowicz I am incredibly excited to have this 16x20 print of the Allenport Milll in my collection.

Don Ray Royo commented on Jeremy's post

Here's that very mill from Pittsburgh Steel Allenport, Pa.

My Grandfather was the Mechanical Works Group Manager and Project Head for NSC's Hot Mill Expansion (1989-1992) together with US Engineers of United Engineering inc. Probably this is one of United's last major projects abroad. Previously a Mechanical Section Head of NSC's Central Engineering Group (CEG). Sad to say this mill in fact has a new life but did not last long here. The 66" hot strip mill of National Steel Corporation (NSC), Philippines. Hot strip mill #2. This is the only hot strip mill in Ph. Now it is left rotting and the NSC plant complex is slowly being looted.

Mel Stewart posted
THIS USE TO BE WHEELING PITTSBURGH STEEL PLANT ALLENPORT PA.
Jeff Picka: My copy of Iron and Steel Works of the World from 1956 suggests that the Pittsburgh Steel Co used this plant to make hot and cold rolled sheets, seamless pipes, forged tubular products, and seamless mechanical and pressure tubing. Their Monessen site had the blast furnaces, basic open heart furnaces for ingot production, and some rod and wire mills.

Mel added three photos as comments on his post.

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That is me 25 years ago.

Jim Canigiani commented on Mel's post

Mel Stewart posted two photos with the comment: "Allenport tandem mill motor room 10,000 H.P. MG SET."

Stanley Quick: We had two side by side but only 800 hp each. Looks about the same. Hated changing brushes on them. Had to sand them in. Even changing only 10 % at a time.

Mel Stewart: Stanley Quick there is another set behind this one. 10,000 HP. YOU ARE RIGHT STAND IN THEM. WE CHANGED ONLY SHORT ONES EVERY WEEK. SOMETIMES THEY WERE HOT. OR VERY WARM.

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Mel Stewart posted five photos with the comment: "MORE ALLENPORT TANDEM MILL MOTOR ROOM. MORE photos of 10,000 HP M.G.SETS, AND STAND DRIVE MOTORS,AND HAPPY WORKERS!

Tandem mill and Motor room and Shipping room buildings are still there."

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Robert Moroz Marten Raud posted
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, Allenport Works,… — PICRYL ...

François Courtemanche: The conveyor belt and tripper feeding the coal storage hoppers at the top of the boilers.