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Title: Steel Plate
Date(s): 1924?, 1924
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'The plate shown on the opposite side is one of the largest plates we have made - length and width considered. This plate was supplied against an order covering four plates in all - the material being ordered by the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, under date of December 17, 1924. (Lukens Mill #1334) The four plates are 9/16' x 78' x 77'5-1/2' of Open Hearth Structural Steel. The estimated weight of one of these plates is 12,138# and three cars were required...
Show moreWritten on verso: 'The plate shown on the opposite side is one of the largest plates we have made - length and width considered. This plate was supplied against an order covering four plates in all - the material being ordered by the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, under date of December 17, 1924. (Lukens Mill #1334) The four plates are 9/16' x 78' x 77'5-1/2' of Open Hearth Structural Steel. The estimated weight of one of these plates is 12,138# and three cars were required for their transportation. Our Company had to arrange for their movement when very little traffic was moving over the Railroad by which these plates had to travel. To attempt to move these plates around a Railroad curve when another train was on the curve could only result disastrously. Consequently, the tracks had to be practically clear for the movement of these 4 plates.'
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Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0700
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Clad Plate Sample
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0703
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: The Largest Fire Box Plate Ever Made
Date(s): 1920-05-12
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'May 12, 1920. This picture shows the largest firebox plate ever made to date. It was one of ten plates of the same size, 250' x 195 1/2' x 3/8', furnished on Phila. 4542. The plates were used to form the crown, sides and combustion chamber of locomotive fireboxes, one plate per locomotive. The locomotives were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the A. T. & S Fe Railroad and the material was Basic Locomotive Firebox steel furnished to A. T. & S. Fe specification 143-A.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0702
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: The Largest Fire Box Plate Ever Made
Date(s): 1920-05-12
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'May 12, 1920. This picture shows the largest firebox plate ever made to date. It was one of ten plates of the same size, 250' x 195 1/2' x 3/8', furnished on Phila. 4542. The plates were used to form the crown, sides and combustion chamber of locomotive fireboxes, one plate per locomotive. The locomotives were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the A. T. & S Fe Railroad and the material was Basic Locomotive Firebox steel furnished to A. T. & S. Fe specification 143-A.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0701
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Steel Plate
Date(s): 1924?, 1924
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'The plate shown on the opposite side is one of the largest plates we have made - length and width considered. This plate was supplied against an order covering four plates in all - the material being ordered by the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, under date of December 17, 1924. (Lukens Mill #1334) The four plates are 9/16' x 78' x 77'5-1/2' of Open Hearth Structural Steel. The estimated weight of one of these plates is 12,138# and three cars were required...
Show moreWritten on verso: 'The plate shown on the opposite side is one of the largest plates we have made - length and width considered. This plate was supplied against an order covering four plates in all - the material being ordered by the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, under date of December 17, 1924. (Lukens Mill #1334) The four plates are 9/16' x 78' x 77'5-1/2' of Open Hearth Structural Steel. The estimated weight of one of these plates is 12,138# and three cars were required for their transportation. Our Company had to arrange for their movement when very little traffic was moving over the Railroad by which these plates had to travel. To attempt to move these plates around a Railroad curve when another train was on the curve could only result disastrously. Consequently, the tracks had to be practically clear for the movement of these 4 plates.'
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Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0699
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs