This Sunday I am taking a friend on a driving tour of historic steelmaking sites in the Mahoning Valley. I have two seats available in the Jeep for anyone interested in tagging along. We are meeting at 9 am at the Center for Industry and Labor and will take a good part of the day, including stopping for lunch. Let me know if interested.
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Our tour started at the site of the YS&T Hubbard Works. One of the few remaining structures from the Hubbard furnaces is this bridge over Little Yankee Run.
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The bridge is to the left in this photo. The pig caster is to the right.
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Then we went up to Warren to RG Steel to see the now closed Warren Works.
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Carrying on the tradition of the William B. Pollock Co., Reichard Industries is still building hot metal cars. This partially completed car sits outside Reichard's plant in Niles.
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Republic Steel bleeds through the paint on this building at the Niles Works.
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Had to stop and say HI to Governor Tod at the McKinley Memorial.
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Now back in Youngstown, we stopped at the boat dock on West Avenue. This view is looking downstream with the B&O Station just behind the trees on the right.
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Then up onto the Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad viaduct over the river. Massive bridges!
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In Campbell, the Campbell Works ore yard walls still stand.
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Low head dam in the Mahoning. The piers carried a trestle where coke was transported from the coke plant to the blast furnaces.
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At Himrod Junction this underpass under the PRR connected the Republic Steel Brown Bonnell Works to the Haselton Works.