Unloading scrap at Port Henry, New York. Steam locomotive crane equiped with a electromagnet unloading a barge at the docks of the Port Henry blast furnaces
Open hearth furnace charging doors with older style hydraulic operated door lifts. It was soon found that leaking hydraulic oil and high temperature furnaces did not mix well.
Carrie Furnaces, Homestead Plant, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company, Pittsburgh District, Pennsylvania. Blast furnace iron tapping into ladles for delivery to the steel making furnaces across the river in Homestead
Hulett ore unloaders at Conneaut, Ohio. Early 20th Century steam powered Hulett design. The designs were modified later in the 20th Century to use electricity along with changes in the structures.
Bucket ore unloaders at Conneaut, Ohio. The traveling bridge extended over the lake boats permitting rapid unloading and stockpiling of the ore. The traveling bridges also faciltated the transfer of the various grades of ore to rail cars for...
Central Iron Company, Massilon Ohio (later Republic Steel Corporation). Catchers side of the 18-inch finishing train which is driven by a 2200 H P motor
