Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co.
Describe Andrew Carnegie Here. Describe the Illinois Steel Co. here. The two companies merged in 1935, forming the main operational component of US Steel. When did they formally go away?
describe CISX 500 here and include your photo and a link to the guy who scratchbuilt one.
Mingo Works (Carnegie Steel)
Mingo Junction, OH
5 Shipments
Founded as the Mingo Iron Works in 1869, etc etc. The plant was located at
the junction of the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the PCC&St.L
(Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway), which was
absorbed by the PRR as its "Panhandle Route" in 1921, and continues to
operate as part of Norfolk Southern today. The Mingo Works was sold by
Carnegie-Illinois to Wheeling
Steel in 1945, and yada yada yada shut down in year. In 2018, the
idled mill was purchased and revived by JSW Steel, a multinational steel
company based in India.
Edgar Thompson Works (Carnegie Steel)
Bessemer, PA
2 Shipments
go look off the George Westinghouse bridge if you want a description.
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South Works (Illinois Steel)
South Chicago, IL
1 Shipment
US Steel South Works, closed 1992. On EJ&E (former Chicago, Lake Shore
& Eastern; now CN)
References and Further Reading
- http://wikimapia.org/16188369/RG-Steel-Wheeling-Division
- https://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/research/wheeling-history/3050
- https://www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2018/12/jsw-steel-official-1000-will-work-at-mingo-junction-plant/
- http://www.jswsteel.us/ohio/
- https://www.worldmapsonline.com/historic-map-mingo-junction-oh-1899/
- http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2015/01/prrs-panhandle-route-pittsburgh.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Thomson_Steel_Works
- http://davidschalliol.com/blog/2011/07/11/the-united-states-steel-south-works/
- https://books.google.com/books?id=BOfUBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45&lpg=PA4
- http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/256674.aspx
- http://southern.railfan.net/flat/cars/cisx/cisx500.html