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larry@stinescorner

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Not tractor related,,but they may have made steel there for some tractors to be built?

My nephew and I stopped in there today and I took some pictures


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Its an amazing place to see
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those are motors that blast air into the ductwork for blast furnace
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The train car brought in the ore
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It was raised up on this rack like conveyor that had big hoppers that would dump

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That nut and bolt was huge!

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Bethlehem steel built the turret and gun barrels for the Uss Missouri
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It was amazing to see,but sad too
 
My grandfather started working there at about 13. That was in 1913, actually. Eventually he transferred
to Sparrows Point and spent the rest of his life working in the blast furnace areas. He did not live long
enough to retire. It was a very tough environment on the human body. My memories of the steel mills
were how loud they were and how dirty. But, they built communities and built a nation.
 
when i was there it was still producing steel, to see the ingots being poured, steel beams being rolled, and giant armatures for GE power plants was really awesome. They also had an electric furnace to melt down scrap steel.
 
Is that a self-driving tour. Just go in and look around? I am about an hour from there, may go and take a look, always been interested in that place. I was in the area once while it was in operation, remember seeing giant slabs of steel still red hot being moved around outside.
 
there is a museum and all catwalk type sidewalks to see it all,,it was free to walk around and take
pictures all legit,no trespassing,,its worth the trip..
 
ArcelorMittal is now the owner of the Former Bethlehem Steel mill in Porter County Indiana. It was built in 1967, and is functionally modern with Basic Oxygen
and Continuous Casting processes. ArcelorMittal is a East Indian company and produces the largest tonnage of steel in the world. Jim
 
Used to be a Bethlehem plant just outside of Buffalo in Lackawanna. I remember once around 1971 we went up to see a relative on my mom's side and drove past the
plant although a little out of our way. I can still remember the news report from 1979 announcing the eventual closure. Buffalo faced a lot of bad news back then with
Love Canal and the blizzard of 1977 as well as the plant closure.
 
Yes my first job out of high school was at the Porter county plant. Coming out of the sand,the 160 inch plate mill, almost a mile long. I also worked on the 80 inch hot strip, BOF, casters , powerhouse,coke ovens,and some with forgotten names. They put a lot of money in my pocket. Took a few years off my life though. joe
 
A place I worked breaks in college a long time ago used a lot of steel and I remember seeing Bethlehem Steel on the side of heavy
section I beams.
 
Northvale PA: Your correct in that the industry built this great nation. Those that think Google and Facebook will propel an economy are na?ve. In the tech world someone just about always comes along with better/quicker/cheaper tech pretty quick.
 
I use to deliver freight into mills. I starts out at Burns Harbor and worked my way to the mills at South Chicago. I hated delivering in the mills.
 
I went past the plant on my way to Niagara falls.

50 years ago I worked at the Bethlehem steel plant in Burns
Harbor, In.

Footnote, Bethlehem steel in Indiana was bought out and they ran
the company into bankruptcy. Then they raided the pension fund.
My cousin lost his pension after working there for 40+ years.

Raiding pension funds should be Illegal.
 
Raiding pension funds is illegal and has long been.

I am not familiar with the facts of this case but it is highly doubtful if the pension fund was "raided."

That said, it was, no doubt, underfunded. Just about all are.

Dean
 
I'd bet they had at least a couple Bessemer Converters. My HS Physics class took a night course in steel making at Rice U. and I'll never forget
the experience nor the Bessemer in particular. I get taken away by designers of big things like this steel mill. Just think of the minds, designer
coordination, final approval and all that went into the procurement and construction of the thing....then the "dry run" to see if it all worked as
planned........mind boggling!
 
George is right those people that work there got screwed over when it came to pension.I know of several that were close to retiring when that happened and are work at another job to make ends meet.
 
I remember going by one with my dad in the early 60?s. A strike was coming, and the mill was working
OT making ingots to add to the inventory. They were stacking the ingots outside in the steelyard, they
were still glowing red. One of my first memories. I should ask my dad to fill in the blanks for me, it was a
long time ago, and he is getting pretty old.
 
We did a class trip in high school Red bank NJ to Bethlehem Steel when there were running at full tilt. Would have been the 69/70 or 70/71 school years. Was real impressive to a bunch of teen boys from a high school shop class!

Rick
 
About 40 years ago Ann Page in Terre Haute was bought out by a German investment group for $100M Their goal was to run the company into Bankruptcy. The pension fund was worth 400M. People that worked there, one was my neighbor, lost their pensions.

It should be illegal, but it's still done. Check out Bain Capital's practices of closing plants.
 
Larry like ny986 said Bethlehem had a plant just south of buffalo,N.Y. on
lake Erie. My dad worked there for a little while along with a few family
members. Dad's uncle worked there many years and ran an 800 ton overhead
crane ! A bunch of the buildings are still there, but much of the property
along the lake is now being used for alternative energy sources such as wind
and solar.
 
Mark I am like you, just who in the world ever sat down and said OK here is what we are going to build and hope it will work. Lots of work there for sure. Not sure we will ever see those kind of developments again.
 
I would love to see that. Would never get the wife to stop there.
>reading/watching the background and history of steel making process thru the innovations and building is pretty neat stuff. from the basics of steel making when Bessimer invented the blast furnace to Carnegie building his steel empire and being on the fore front at the right time and place in history. Those plants including the ones built along the lake in NW Indiana are impressive. the books on how the Indiana Steel mills were built is amazing.

family is from NE Ohio and when i was going to school in Youngstown there were a couple blast furnaces still standing. they were neat but kinda creapy/ghostly landmarks. i think they've knocked them all down now. i remember alot of the "lost" pensions being in the news. Pensions aren't really guaranteed. i know some wanted GM to go bankrupt to let them get out of some of the union contracts and pension loads. not right but we cannot trust the goobberment to "take care" of the pensions either. save it for yourself. THat's what my company does. they put 5% of my pay in a "pension" account that is kinda like a 401k (has a different 401? number) that i can take with me. I know i'm a lucky one.

even going to a "small" modern casting plant is impressive that they can heat, melt, control content and quality and then pour that iron like it was water into the sand molds.

i was watching them load the cupila (sp) they would put some iron ore, some scrap iron, some scrap steel a little of this and that. saw the magnet in the scrap area pick up a complete snow plow mount from a pickup and put it right in the furnace. hoses, motor, headlights the whole thing.
 
IN Case ..... my best friend from up here in Canada married a girl from Youngstown ..... they are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this coming June. He was down there on a hockey scholarship at Ohio U and he met her there. Her dad worked for one of the steel companies in town. Years ago, TIME Magazine had a cover story on Youngstown and the rust belt, sort of a sad story. I have seen some of the real estate listings in Youngstown, unbelievable. But is there not some sort of a comeback happening maybe that I have read about?
 
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