USS Clairton towboat

Delivering coke to the USS mills from the huge coke works upriver at Clairton, Pa.

USS Homestead Main Gate

CIS = Carnegie-Illinois Steel. This was the old name for the plant. Through this gate passed the muscle that made the steel used in nearly every steel structure of note built in the Northeastern USA from 1900 to the 1950s.

My grandfather Chamberlain, was a scales inspector, who traveled on the PRR to inspect USS mills all over America.  My Mother, waits in her yellow dress, with Old Max, her faithful Irish setter, for him to arrive.

Helen C loading slabs

Named for my Mother, Helen Chamberlain, whose grandfather was a steamboat engineer. The 'Helen C." is loading slabs for delivery to USS finishing mills upstream on the Monongahela River.

Where the cops and mill security hung out to dunk their donuts at break time.  Slag pots are being dumped in the background at Duquesne Slag Co., Mifflin, Pa.

Molten iron at the Carrie Furnaces No.3, flowing in trenches to fill a 'bottle' car for transport across the 'Hot Metal Bridge'
to the open hearth furnaces at Homestead.

Blower Engine & Boiler House

Blower engines that provide the hot blast into the furnaces are in the far half of this building, while the boiler house in the near half provides power from steam driven turbines (scratch built from photos).