The US Steel Edgar Thomson works in Braddock, PA. ET is the
last remaining integrated steel-production facility in the
Pittsburgh area. This picture is from across the Mon from
the plant, but it's worth taking a visit to the front of the
plant as well; they have bits of the last slab rolled by the
old slab-rolling system and the first slab cast in their
continuous caster.
US Steel coke works at Clairton, PA. I've taken roll after
roll of pictures of this plant without successfully conveying
its scale in one single frame. According to my 1993
Directory of Iron and Steel Plants, the facility has
816 coke batteries with a capacity of over 15000 tons per day.
Steam over the US Steel Clairton works at sunset.
The former LTV coke works at Hazelwood. This plant was visible from
Greenfield and from the Boulevard of the Allies. It was also sometimes
smellable as far away as Squirrel Hill. After a few rounds
of political brinksmanship, LTV closed the plant in early
1998, and now (early 1999) the plant's auxillary facilities
and much of the plant itself have been demolished. As far as
I can tell, the LTV works were in turn the last surviving
parts of J&L's enormous
Eliza furnaces.
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