Keystone State Relics

[Guest]

i dont think irwin had one, but all along the banks of the rivers were covered in mills, all of the south side were mills. Its hard to say where Irwin works were. Ill see if i can find out and do some research.

[EngineMan]

Lived in Irwin all my life - closest thing to a plant / factory i've ever learned about was a glass plant that burned in 1896.

[e290l103]

I think I saved this off firepics awhile ago. I save all the Mack photos.



[quote name='Frank B' date='02 January 2011 - 07:57 PM' timestamp='1294015049' post='418154']

PA Reading 1950 Mack E 75 S #2400

This is the only shot that I have of this rig.



Mack factory photo

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[Guest]

[quote name='Frank B' date='02 January 2011 - 08:32 PM' timestamp='1294017170' post='418169']

PA Steelton Baldwin #4 1947 Mack 75 S #2298

Dauphin County



Mack factory photo



One of 5 (?) stations, now combined into 1

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This was rig was just "refurbed" by a friend. A lady in Steelton owns this now. It was her late husbands and she decided to keep it and refurb it.

[OPEN CAB MACK]

[quote name='Rpaterson33' date='03 January 2011 - 05:00 PM' timestamp='1294090823' post='418352']

i dont think irwin had one, but all along the banks of the rivers were covered in mills, all of the south side were mills. Its hard to say where Irwin works were. Ill see if i can find out and do some research.

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There was never a U.S. Steel mill in Irwin PA. The predecessor to U.S.Steel was Carnegie Steel. Andrew Carnegie merged his operations after the turn of the last century with J.P. Morgan Steel to form the United States Steel Corp. I think Mike is right in the miss lettering. I will look through my pictures of some of the musters we attended to try to find pictures of John's Mack.

[truck1882]

"Pittsburg PA

Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company Iron Works 1938 Mack 75EH #1023

West Mifflin PA is where the Ir[size="4"]W[/size]in works is located.

Can we find a more recent photo of this truck?

Mack factory photo "





Read carefully, I am not sure where the IrVin works came from, It is the "IrWin works", which was located in West Mifflin. After checking my list, I have an Irwin works listed as Dravosburg. Just my two cents

[e290l103]

the works at Dravosburg is the IRVIN works.



Carnegie Steel Company

Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company created by Andrew Carnegie to manage business at his steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century.



Contents

1 Creation

2 Steel Mills

3 Sale

4 Local competition

5 20th Century Steel Production

6 See also

7 References

8 External links







Creation

Carnegie constructed his first steel mill in the mid-1870s: the profitable Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The profits made by the Edgar Thomson Steel Works were sufficiently great to permit Mr. Carnegie and a number of his associates to purchase other nearby steel mills. In 1892, Carnegie Steel Company was formed. At its peak, the company operated a total of eight steel mills.



Its headquarters was located in the Carnegie Building, an office building in Downtown Pittsburgh[1]. Built to display the use of steel in its construction, the building was fifteen stories high, and was left uncovered for a full year. Located in Pittsburgh, the building stood for 57 years, 1895-1952. Demolition of the Carnegie Building commenced on March 1, 1952.





Steel Mills

Edgar Thomson Works, Braddock, Pennsylvania

15,654 employees in 1900

The first Carnegie free public library built in America is in Braddock

Homestead Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania

12,554 employees in 1900, peak employment of 30,000

A massive plant acquired in 1883

Closed in 1987 and demolished

Currently the site of The Waterfront retail

Mingo Junction, Mingo Junction, Ohio

2,954 employees in 1900

The steel mill was the only manufacturing plant in Mingo Junction in 1900

Duquesne Works, Duquesne, Pennsylvania

It was a modest, but new, plant called Duquesne Steel Company when it was acquired in 1889



Sale

Carnegie Steel Company was sold to the United States Steel Company in 1901. U. S. Steel was a conglomerate with subsidiary companies. The name of the subsidiary company was changed to the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company in 1936.





Local competition

The presence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers provided a way to transport the heavy materials associated with the steel-making industry. Each plant was located close to or alongside a river.



The seed of the company which became its strongest competitor was sown in 1853. Jones, Lauth and Company established puddling furnaces and rolling mills along the Monongahela at a location a couple of miles (roughly four kilometers) away from Pittsburgh. Bernard Lauth invented and patented cold rolling of iron in 1859. In the same year, James Laughlin constructed Laughlin and Company directly across the river from the Jones, Lauth and Company. Over time, the two enterprises became united under the name J&L Steel and installed their first two Bessemer converters for the production of steel in 1886.



J&L Steel became the most important competitor to the Carnegie Steel Company and U. S. Steel in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. In 1905 it began the construction of a new steel mill along the Ohio River twenty miles (32 km) downriver from Pittsburgh at Aliquippa. In 1908, it constructed a new 12-story office building in Pittsburgh.



J&L Steel announced numerous expansions of its operations, including a $250,000,000 expansion for 1955-58. In 1968, Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. of Texas, offered to buy sixty-three percent of J&L Steel, marking the beginning of the end for "big steel" in the Pittsburgh region.





20th Century Steel Production

Changes in the way in which steel is produced had already appeared before the Carnegie Steel Company was sold in 1901. Steel manufacturers had begun to abandon the Bessemer converters and install open-hearth furnaces. Open-hearth furnaces were widely employed until the 1970s when the basic oxygen furnace, electric arc furnace and continuous casting mad[b]e them obsolete. Currently, employment is extraordinarily low at the remaining plants which have been a part of the Carnegie Steel Company since 1900, though in Braddock the J. Edgar Thomson Works is still active, producing hot iron that is shipped up the river to the Irvin Works at Dravosburg to be finished into steel.[/b]

[Frank B]

Thanks for the Help. I think this is the most reply's I have ever recieved.

I may have a photo of the Mack from the National Tube Co.

When I get a chance, I will resume scanning of the Mack collection. I am about 1/4 of the way done.

I have too many Mack scans to post them all.

I would like to get full size copies of the nice Steelton Mack photos, to ad to the Mack collection.

[e290l103]

there are never enough Mack photos!!! besides for the photos, the serial numbers you are providing with them are a huge help in identifying rigs that are still around, and those to which, at least me personally, have photos with no info on them at all. your work is very much appreciated, and hopefully this winter I will finally get a chance to go to the Mack Museum and meet Snowy Doe!

[Frank B]

Palmer PA 80 Pierce Hend

Northampton County

unknown photographer

[Frank B]

Parkview Fire Co O'Hare Twp PA Allegheny County station 218

1986 Pierce Mack

unknown photographer

[Frank B]

[quote name='BA000049' date='11 July 2006 - 06:48 AM' timestamp='1152617285' post='7311']

Scott,



Some no so happy additional info on the Lancaster City tiller:



1951 Peter Pirsch, semi-cab tractor, 85 ft aluminum tiller trailer, cost $29,427. It was placed into service on 1/19/51 as Truck “A”. Sold to Progress-Paxtonia (Dauphin County) in 1973. In 1986 at the Paxtang Daily Market Fire, a rotary gear broke and it was retired from service. On 7/10/93 it was owned by the Clear Spring VFC of Hagerstown, Md as an antique, it was being driven to the 18th Annual Penna. Pump Primers Muster in Harrisburg on I-81 near Shippensburg, the universal joint broke and the driveshaft pulled the fuel line from the tank which caused the rig to loose its brakes and start a fire from the tractor back through the trailer - Eric Russell the driver was killed when the rig crashed and he was thrown under the wheels - tillerman Jeffery Jenkins was seriously burned.



Bruce W. Anderson

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Some more photos of the Paxtonia 1951 Pirsch

unknown photographer

[Frank B]

Paxtonia

Dauphin County

1951 Pirsch 85'

unknown photographer

[Truckman]

[quote name='Frank B' date='04 January 2011 - 09:58 PM' timestamp='1294195126' post='418568']

Some more photos of the Paxtonia 1951 Pirsch

unknown photographer

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Isn't she just beautiful?? Great rigs.

[Frank B]

Peckville PA Wilson FC #1 Lackawanna County

WLF Ambassader 100' Maxim ladder

unknown photographer

[Frank B]

Peckville PA Saulsbury Rescue-Ambulance

[Frank B]

Penndel PA 1983 Pierce Ford C

Bucks county, like it say's on the side

unknown photographer

[Frank B]

Penns Creek PA 31 WLF

Snyder County?

unknown photographer

[Frank B]

Penryn PA 78 Seagrave

Lancaster County PA station 2-8



unknown photographer

[Frank B]

Philadelphia Maxim