Monaca, PA. Drove around for like an hour looking for a decent place to shoot this mill from or a way to get in. Had a tour of the run down old steel towns of the greater Pittsburgh area tho.. Saw Aliquippa, Beaver, Monaca, Shippingport and I think I was in Industry also.

Weirton Steel

Weirton, West Virginia - Dead 15 and 50 town overhead cranes in the rolling mill engine shop.

I shot this shortly before this building came down; was there to document the Tod Engine that ran this mill. As far as I know then engine still sits in the yard rusting away where the rolling mill shed was. 

Behind “The Warehouse”. Youngstown, Ohio. Had a quick shoot with this kid AK yesterday. He was standing in this pile of bricks, so I said pick one up like you’re going to throw it. Then I said fuck it, throw it. Bad idea hahaha dodged it tho

Iron City Beer brewery. Pittsburgh PA. This pisser was right in the middle of the production floor. No bathroom, just set in the wall. Never saw anything like that before.

Iron City Beer brewery. Pittsburgh, PA.

Iron City Brewing Co.

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Pittsburgh, PA. A can of "Steel Valley Beer" I found in the original Lawrenceville plant, which dated back to the 1860s. They were tearing down parts of the brewery, as Iron City was bought out and being brewed in Latrobe. Even thought we all know where the real Steel Valley is (cough YOUNGSTOWN cough), I like the bust of Joe Magarac on the can. You know, the steelworker's Paul Bunyon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Magarac

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“Steel Valley Beer” Iron City Beer Brewery. Pittsburgh, PA. 

US Steel Ohio Works

Youngstown, O. - My cousin Chris was telling me about this tunnel on the West Side that went under Midwest Steel & Alloy from Salt Springs so we decided to check it out. When I went to his house in the Steelton neighborhood he crawled out the coal chute to greet me. Photos below. We walked down to the mouth of the tunnel with my new $600 camera and started into the tunnel. At first the water was ankle or knee deep but towards the end it was up to our nipples.

Before the company above was Midwest Steel it was Carnegie Illinois Steel's skull cracker yard. I wonder if this tunnel was built by ol Andy Carnegie; it certainly looked like old enough construction to be the case. 

At the other end of the tunnel was the Mahoning River, where we skipped rocks with the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.'s Brier Hill works in the background. We then climbed up the steep bank to check out the long abandoned pump house that was on the scrapyard's property. I can't seem to find those photos but it was very interesting also, take my word for it. We walked down to Cherol's market from there, like so many USS employees before us, bought a couple Stewart's lime pops and officially called the start of summer. 

NEW UNRELEASED CURREN$Y!! N.O. Shit off Muscle Car Chronicles RT RT RT #JETLIFE

Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. This sammich was the truth! Bacon x Fried Egg x Red Hot on a toasted roll from the bodega.. WUT

Nelsons Ledges Road Course; Nelson, Ohio. Very different from the quarry park but still fun. Bring a cooler and watch fast cars go fast. Fuck yeah.

Nelsons Ledges; Nelson, Ohio. Randoms, weird masonic symbols carved in the rock, weird spider webs, weird rock formations that look like faces… Im no hippie but I love this place. It’s a half hour drive to a different world.

Republic Steel, Warren Ohio. 15 minutes ago cause we were bored. @TheRealMaxLo’s first time behind the camera.

Mackenzie Muffler/Austintown Tool and Die

Austintown, O. - *Update 12/1/2016* When I originally posted this in 2011, all I knew about this place was that my cousin applied for a job here, but was never hired.  There is far more history here than I knew years ago when I saw they were tearing it down, threw on my hard hat on a Sunday and set out to document it.

A recent post about wartime production at a neighboring plant  http://www.therustjungle.com/rustjungle/2016/11/29/youngstown-steel-door , initialed a discussion on this plant, which was located right across Hendricks Rd. Mackenzie Muffler was a division of Buffalo Pressed Steel, who manufactured mufflers for International Harvester tractors and automobiles for the Big 3. During WWII, Mackenzie also produced fuel tanks, much like their neighbors at Steel Door. Perhaps they worked in conjunction, hopefully someone can shed some light on that. According to the article below they went from 150 employees in 1938 to 3,000 during the war, many of them women.  A family friend of ours' mother worked here during the war as a press operator. 

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Below are the images from my original post, taken during the demolition of this plant. There was a decent amount of equipment left here that they were cutting apart. Presses, shears, cranes etc. Stickers on one of the employee lockers reference Youngstown Steel Door day, and USWA local 2310 which represented Steel Door and possibly Austintown Tool and Die, not sure about that.

Grandpa

Youngstown, O. - My Grandpa’s trash burner. The nice people at Sharon Steel were kind enough to let my great uncle Freddie machine this out of plate steel on the clock, out of their materials. (I’m sure thats how it went). 

Vallourec Star

Girard, O. Construction of the expansion at Vallourec Star, a seamless pipe mill that occupies the former Youngstown Sheet and Tube Brier Hill works. *Updated* Original text in photo caption. 

100 feet up at V&M Star Steel, Youngstown Ohio. My [REDACTED] is an [REDACTED] on that job and sent me this from up on the iron. Technology is crazy, so is the fact that they are building a new steel mill here.

High up, downtown.

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Street Art: Overunder, Bushwick

WWII Propaganda ad for Truscon Steel, the last set of photos I posted on here. Ironic because they are scrapping the mill, and also because selling stolen scrapmetal is a one of the few major industries left here in Youngstown.

Truscon Steel Co.

Ross Industrial Park (Republic Steel-Truscon Steel-Werner Ladder-Avanti Motor Car Company assembly plant) Youngstown Ohio.

Dempsey Steel. Girard, Ohio.