Carrie Furnace on the Mon near Rankin, Pennsylvania
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Working at the Carrie blast furnaces was thrilling, dangerous and exhausting. Two former employees walk through the derelict site and describe their experiences. For a complete interactive tour go to www.post-gazette.com/slides/Carrie/index.html.
Very good job on this clip. My father-in-law (Joe Charlton 'Hoss') pipe shop worked at Carrie for 44 years. Thank You for sharing your memories.
I traveled to Homestead Works in 1967 with my Mom and Dad in a 1966 VW camper van. My Dad transferred there and returned after a week to his home plant in Worcestet, Mass. ECD which stood for Electrical Cable Division which was my home plant. Fast forward to 1991 when I transferred to ET in Braddock. The Boilermakers at ET stated that they were constantly repairing the stoves with patches until some of the Iron Mastsrs came over from Carrie Furnaces
There's something so incredibly sad seeing a blast furnace sitting there cold.
I know. Which is why I draw them as relics. But the engineers that drew up the plans for these blast furnaces must be geniuses.
We lived in Rankin, in the 50s. My dad, uncle, grandfather, all worked open hearth.
Awesome video! Thank you so much for this.
A great thing long gone. Just like Bethlehem Steel Here in Bethlehem. Please if you wish to see the HQ at Martin Tower and the South Side HQ plus the other 33 original Bethlehem Steel Buildings and Blast Furnaces standing go to Arts Quest by the furnaces and ask around. The more people that get involved and show that they care the better chance that they will still be there years from now.
Its sad to think all them people who traveled thoses stairs. It was like a 2nd home for us steel workers, so many holidays spent there, birthdays, good times with co workers who were like family. We worked long hours and then One day you get evicted and thats it.
lol no doubt! they started tearing down the mills when I was a boy, But I do remember one building with the logo, real big on the outside. but it was all yellow, and did say US Steel I believe on the building. but cool, hey Jets are cool to me, like them a lot more then Cheatriots!, lol and hey more cool history, what I know, a boy from a man who was steel worker, that boy name was Joe Namath! out of Beaver Falls. won the Super Bowl for the Jets! pretty awesome roots.
Fascinating! Can you take a tour through these?
Yes I was there in 2019 it was very worth it I LOVED IT !! It is a guided tour most of the time by former steel workers and while you are in the area go see Bethlehem Steel both very worth the time and a excellent history lesson !!
Nice video. The capitalist sure have all of us right where they want us. My plant closed in 2009 left for Mexico and Brazil. The real sad part is the young people have really gotten screwed and don't even know it.
I was raised in that area. Whitaker, Homestead and Munhall.
I wish the mills were still opened.. imagine how much jobs there would be still for the American people. Just makes me sick how hard it is to get a job
awesome vid to watch! just crazy its closed, but so cool its still there! but oh yeah, Pittsburgh steel trademark, love it 5:13. GO STEELERS!!!!!!!
Can you please post more video of the ruins without the post production fade in/out?
Would you be interested in doing a song? Was thinking about shooting a video at this place. TH iz the One (RUclips)
It’s a shame that US steel and coal mining is almost all gone. Overseas like so much of the industry….so sad.
Wonderful video. When was it filmed?
Is it haunted
5:13...or maybe try the US Steel Logo? lol I'm a Jets fan...so yeah you know. Still like the Steelers...got a great history to them.
that's where Robo Cop was filmed!
No it wasn't. It was the Duquesne furnace.
@@pierreklee7490 it was filmed in Monessen at the old Monessen Works, which was later demolished in the mid 90s.
@@JohnDoe-le7ml that was one of the places. The steel mill footage was Duquesne.
Do you really think that the owners care about you if you don't have a job today?
They said my dads name we are from homestead
No need to feel sad. It was one moment in time. They will just build another if we truly need it. Just remember all the ash and smell
4:16, what is that?!
Toledo car. That's what the molton iron poured in underneath the furnace. They would then put vermiculite in the spouts to keep the molten iron warm and ship it over across the bridge to the homestead works to produce steel.
I can just imagine what their underwear 🩲 looked like after 12 hours in that heat and filth.
I lived in pittsburgh living in homestead. I was there when they tore down the old mill and built a bunch of shopping and a dave and busters what a waste. Due to the jobs lost homestead area like most of Pittsburgh is a shit hole with crime a drugs. Sigh...
Thank you Bill Clinton
+h82av8 it wasnt Reagan that pushed through NAFTA
you are either an idiot or willfully stupid - which one?
If this mill where in Japan. It would not exist anymore, rather it would have been replaced with a new mill with new technology.
The combination of Asian merchantilism, US unions and corporate reliance on quarterly earnings has doomed American industry. Our former machine tool industry looks the same way - abandoned.