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The Short Line traverses the short stretch of CSL trackage between the Illinois International Port and its yard at 95th Street with mill gondolas that it will take east towards Indiana Harbor.
This trackage historically led into a Youngstown Sheet and Tube mill located on the east bank of the Calumet River originally founded by Iroquois Steel, the original owner of the CSL. In the early 1950s, the mill had three blast furnaces and seventy coke ovens, one of the smaller integrated steel mills on Chicago's southeast side. The mill was shut down by the end of the 1960s and converted into what is now the Illinois International Port (Iroquois Landing)
A Cleveland-Cliffs slug set shoves a cut of empty mill gondolas to be loaded with steel slabs behind the slag dump at the west end of the former YS&T side of the Indiana Harbor Works.
Old Glory flies high over 3SP at the sprawling Indiana Harbor Works as the Short Line and two Cliffs in-plant GP15-1s make a rare appearance together on the west side of the complex.
A SW1000 at Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor Works snakes its way passed abandoned bridge spans as it heads east to grab empty subs destined for blast furnace #7 on the west side of the steel mill. 1004 was built in 1967 for Youngstown Sheet & Tube, a former steel manufacturer here at Indiana Harbor.
A pair of CSL endcabs are spotted across from the Indiana Harbor Works switching a slab train on the BP Lead. The building in the background is 3SP which makes up a part of Indiana Harbor West, the former YS&T facilities west of the canal now operated by Cleveland Cliffs.
In the backdrop of 3SP, the Short Line shoves out into CP 503 to interchange coils with NS on the BP Lead. This half of the Indiana Harbor Works was part of LTV/Youngstown Sheet and Tube which traces back to Clayton Mark's 1916 steel mill in East Chicago. The CSL was historically owned by Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and it remains a wholly owned subsidiary railroad of Cleveland-Cliffs.
A YSE job backing out of the NS Haselton Yard on the south side of Youngstown. Once south of the interlocking they will reverse direction and start up their own line that is in the foreground. A former CN GP9u is in charge. The unit was rebuilt at the CN Pointe St. Charles shops in Montreal and was once used by the Camp Chase RR near Columbus, Ohio:
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There was once a maze of tracks here governed by Graham Tower that I believe was operated by the Pennsylvania RR. It controlled a crossing of the PRR E&A Branch with P&LE subsidiary Lake Erie & Eastern RR (LE&E), both the P&LE and LE&E were controlled by the New York Central. And of course, the backdrop of this scene was once dominated by a steel mill - the Campbell Works of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.
With Conrail gone 25 years (6-1-1999), a couple more postings of the Conrail legacy.
This was one of the odd trains, when extra coal may have been needed at the power plant or one of the Somerset RR trains were tied up, Conrail would run a UNS coal train with their own CR system cars. The train pictured here, UNS-108 is one of those CR system trainsets going to the Somerset Railroad and the Kintigh power plant. Train is pictured here, northbound, on the Youngstown Secondary Track at Graham Block Limit and CP-Graham in Struthers, OH. This was the former crossing of the P&LE subsidiary, Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad over the PRR. A tower used to be here to control this crossing, Graham Tower, sat behind me, was torn down at the time of this photo. Part of of the old Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co mill is seen on the far left. All of the mill visible on the left is long gone.
The LE&E used to cross the PRR on diamonds, but with downgrading came diamond removal and a pair of crossovers used to access each side of the old LE&E. Shortline Youngstown & Southeastern uses the old LE&E here today to access their CSX interchange in the vicinity of the old P&LE Gateway Yard.
Abandoned machine shop of the Nemacolin Mine, formerly owned by the Buckeye Coal Company, a division of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.
Overlooking Blast Furnace #4 at the Indiana Harbor Works as two slab trains build their train. The Indiana Harbor complex, now operated by Cleveland Cliffs, is divided between the former Inland Steel mill on the east side of Indiana Harbor and YS&T/LTV on the west. Former Inland Steel buildings are painted red while the former LTV buildings are painted black.
Second floor of abandoned and decayed City Trust and Savings Bank (est. 1918)
Campbell, OH
The bank that occupied the first floor was frequented by steel workers at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company.
Around 1977, almost all of the steel mills in the area (at one time steel mills lined 60 miles of the Mahoning River) closed down. More than 5,000 workers lost their jobs and the bank eventually closed. A dry cleaning company then occupied the first floor. Now, it is possible to visit the second floor of the bank which had been occupied by dentists, an X-ray company, the steel workers' union, and other businesses. (See below for info about tours.)
This bank building is close to the Steel and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio, which were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting photos of this site in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes albums. (My albums are mostly in alphabetical order so that album will be on the last page of my albums.)
The site is open for tours on Sunday afternoons. You need to make reservations. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info on arranging a tour.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
The only hint of color in this dreary scene is the yellow and orange of the locomotives as an Ohio Central crew switches tank cars at the Castlo Industrial Park in Struthers. All of this area, including the industrial park and the vast open space on the right was once all part of Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Rod & Wire works. The track on the left is Norfolk Southern's Youngstown Line, originally PRR's E&A Branch.
ABC-NACO Whitcomb 50 ton at the former National Castings plant in Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in April 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This locomotive was built in March 1948 by Whitcomb ( BLH c/n 60757, Baldwin acquired Whitcomb in 1931 ) as Youngstown Sheet & Tube 501.
The remains of one of the main buildings of the former Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.
The Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company, based in Youngstown, Ohio, was one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world. Officially, the company was created on November 23, 1900, when Articles of Incorporation of the Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company were filed with the Ohio Secretary of State at Columbus. Youngstown Sheet and Tube remained in business until 1979.
IHB 119 sets out coils for ArcellorMittal at the former Youngstown Sheet and Tube mill in Marktown. Just blocks from here is the historic company town founded by Mark Manufacturing in 1917.
Iron Soup Estates of Campbell, Ohio. A partially abandoned historic site for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company completed in 1918.
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Homes
Campbell, OH
The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting more photos in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes album.
The site is open for tours. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
Or click on my album to the right of this description.
As an eastbound tank train knocks down CP 503, CSL #31 grabs a cut of coils behind the former LTV (Youngstown Sheet and Tube) mill at Indiana Harbor before heading back west towards the state line.
The Chicago Short Line was formerly operated by LTV Steel and reorganized as the South Chicago and Indiana Harbor after the International Steel Group acquired the assets of bankrupt LTV. Now operated by Mittal, the railroad continues to operate with a roster of four switchers, all of which were delivered to the CSL in the '60s and '70s.
Second floor of abandoned and decayed City Trust and Savings Bank (established 1918)
Campbell, OH
The bank that occupied the first floor was frequented by steel workers at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.
Around 1977, almost all the steel mills in the area (at one time steel mills lined 60 miles of the Mahoning River) closed down. More than 5,000 workers lost their jobs and the bank eventually closed. A dry cleaning company then occupied the first floor. Now, it is possible to visit the second floor of the bank which had been occupied by dentists, an X-ray company, the steel workers' union, and other businesses. (See below for info about tours.)
This bank building is close to the Sheet and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio, which were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting photos of tis site in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes albums. (My albums are mostly in alphabetical order so that album will be on the last page of my albums.)
The site is open for tours on Sunday afternoons. You need to make reservations. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info on arranging a tour.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
Second floor of abandoned and decayed City Trust and Savings Bank (established 1918)
Campbell, OH
The bank that occupied the first floor was frequented by steel workers from the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company.
Around 1977, almost all the steel mills in the area (at one time steel mills lined 60 miles of the Mahoning River) closed down. More than 5,000 workers lost their jobs and the bank eventually closed. A dry cleaning company then occupied the first floor. Now, it is possible to visit the second floor of the bank which had been occupied by dentists, an X-ray company, the steel workers' union, and other businesses. (See below for info about tours.)
This bank building is close to the Sheet and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio, which were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting photos of this site in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes albums. (My albums are mostly in alphabetical order so that album will be near the bottom of the first page or on the last page of my albums.)
The site is open for tours on Sunday afternoons. You need to make reservations. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info on arranging a tour.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
Exterior of the abandoned and decayed City Trust and Savings Bank (est. 1918)
Campbell, OH
The bank that occupied the first floor was frequented by steel workers at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company.
Around 1977, almost all the steel mills in the area (at one time steel mills lined 60 miles of the Mahoning River) closed down. More than 5,000 workers lost their jobs and the bank eventually closed. A dry cleaning company then occupied the first floor. Now, it is possible to visit the second floor of the bank which had been occupied by dentists, an X-ray company, the steel workers' union, and other businesses. (See below for info about tours.)
This bank building is close to the Sheet and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio, which were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting photos of tis site in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes albums. (My albums are mostly in alphabetical order so that album will be on the last page of my albums.)
The site is open for tours on Sunday afternoons. You need to make reservations. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info on arranging a tour.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
Little River Railroad 1 0-4-0 that was previously Youngstown Sheet & Tube 124 operating at Indiana Railroad Open House 2023. More shots at www.coalandsteelphoto.com/Railroad-1/Steam/Indiana-Northe... and www.coalandsteelphoto.com/Railroad-1/Steam/Little-River-R...
Second floor of abandoned and decayed City Trust and Savings Bank (established 1918)
Campbell, OH
The bank that occupied the first floor was frequented by steel workers at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company.
Around 1977, almost all the steel mills in the area (at one time steel mills lined 60 miles of the Mahoning River) closed down. More than 5,000 workers lost their jobs and the bank eventually closed. A dry cleaning company then occupied the first floor. Now, it is possible to visit the second floor of the bank which had been occupied by dentists, an X-ray company, the steel workers' union, and other businesses. (See below for info about tours.)
This bank building is close to the Sheet and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio, which were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting photos of tis site in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes albums. (My albums are mostly in alphabetical order so that album will be on the last page of my albums.)
The site is open for tours on Sunday afternoons. You need to make reservations. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info on arranging a tour.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
Little River Railroad 1 0-4-0 that was previously Youngstown Sheet & Tube 124 operating at Indiana Railroad Open House 2023. More shots at www.coalandsteelphoto.com/Railroad-1/Steam/Indiana-Northe... and www.coalandsteelphoto.com/Railroad-1/Steam/Little-River-R...
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Homes
Campbell, OH
The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting more photos in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes album.
The site is open for tours. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
Building in the Iron Soup housing neighborhood in Campbell, Ohio. These were prefabricated concrete apartments built in the early 1900s for workers at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company.
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Homes,
Campbell, OH
The Youngstown Steel and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting more photos in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes album.
The site is open for tours. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
Iron Soup Estates of Campbell, Ohio. A partially abandoned historic site for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Homes completed in 1918.
Second floor of abandoned and decayed City Trust and Savings Bank (est. 1918)
Campbell, OH
The bank that occupied the first floor was frequented by steel workers at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company.
Around 1977, almost all the steel mills in the area (at one time steel mills lined 60 miles of the Mahoning River) closed down. More than 5,000 workers lost their jobs and the bank eventually closed. A dry cleaning company then occupied the first floor. Now, it is possible to visit the second floor of the bank which had been occupied by dentists, an X-ray company, the steel workers' union, and other businesses. (See below for info about tours.)
This bank building is close to the Steel and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio, which were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting photos of tis site in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes album. (My albums are mostly in alphabetical order so that album will be on the last page of my albums.)
The site is open for tours on Sunday afternoons. You need to make reservations. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info on arranging a tour.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
Iron Soup Estates of Campbell, Ohio. A partially abandoned historic site for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company completed in 1918.
They say it's one of the Seven Wonders of Northwest Indiana. With English Tudor homes and narrow streets, Marktown was founded in 1917 as a workers' community and is most distinctive for being one of the only places in the nation where parking on the sidewalk is a way of life. Surrounded on all four sides by steel mills and the Whiting oil refinery, this century-old enclave of East Chicago has withstood the test of time, but its existence is threatened by the possible expansion of its neighbor: BP.
Check out my Marktown photo album for a brief history on this unique neighborhood:
Second floor of abandoned and decayed City Trust and Savings Bank (est. 1918)
Campbell, OH
The bank that occupied the first floor was frequented by steel workers at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company.
Around 1977, almost all the steel mills in the area (at one time steel mills lined 60 miles of the Mahoning River) closed down. More than 5,000 workers lost their jobs and the bank eventually closed. A dry cleaning company then occupied the first floor. Now, it is possible to visit the second floor of the bank which had been occupied by dentists, an X-ray company, the steel workers' union, and other businesses. (See below for info about tours.)
This bank building is close to the Sheet and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio, which were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting photos of tis site in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes albums. (My albums are mostly in alphabetical order so that album will be on the last page of my albums.)
The site is open for tours on Sunday afternoons. You need to make reservations. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info on arranging a tour.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
The local switches the former Youngstown sheet and tube tin mill in Marktown.
East Chicago, IN
Jan 2, 2011
Looking up the B&O lead from the Lake Sub, across the EJ&E Lake Front Line, a November 1981 photo of Jones & Laughlin switchers working the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube mill at East Chicago. When J&L later merged with Republic Steel, it became LTV.
An early morning view looking east from the Center St. bridge. A CS freight is approaching the crossing and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube mill is going strong.
A vacant Tudor duplex in Marktown along Riley Road with an advertisement for last summer's Pierogi Fest in nearby Whiting.
We are at Indiana Harbor looking up the lead from the B&O Lake Sub, crossing the EJ&E Lake Front Line, and entering the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company where mill switchers are hard at work, in September 1981. This is the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube plant. It later became LTV Steel, then International Steel Group. It was merged into Arcelor Mittal in 2005.
The old turntable in the engine facility at the Erie Railroad's former Brier Hill Yard rusts away unused in December 2001. The gray weather fits the mood here this day. In the upper left corner is the former headquarters building for Youngstown Sheet & Tube, now long since demolished.
Building in the Iron Soup housing neighborhood in Campbell, Ohio. These were prefabricated concrete apartments built in the early 1900s for workers at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company.
Building in the Iron Soup housing neighborhood in Campbell, Ohio. These were prefabricated concrete apartments built in the early 1900s for workers at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company.
At the P&LE Gateway yard in Youngstown, OH is this GE 80-ton low-cab locomotive. It is Youngstown Sheet & Tube 802 and with the mills in Youngstown being shut down my guess it is on its way to greener pastures.
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Homes
Campbell, OH
The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting more photos in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes album.
The site is open for tours. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354