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?

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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

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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

  1. http://wikimapia.org/16188369/RG-Steel-Wheeling-Division
  2. https://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/research/wheeling-history/3050
  3. https://www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2018/12/jsw-steel-official-1000-will-work-at-mingo-junction-plant/
  4. http://www.jswsteel.us/ohio/
  5. https://www.worldmapsonline.com/historic-map-mingo-junction-oh-1899/
  6. http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2015/01/prrs-panhandle-route-pittsburgh.html
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Thomson_Steel_Works
  8. http://davidschalliol.com/blog/2011/07/11/the-united-states-steel-south-works/
  9. https://books.google.com/books?id=BOfUBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45&lpg=PA4
  10. http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/256674.aspx
  11. http://southern.railfan.net/flat/cars/cisx/cisx500.html