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STEEL INDUSTRY STEEL MILL LOCOMOTIVES Railroad Street: Pittsburgh's Rolling Ingot Steam Locomotives PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELhhNjVx4SE Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
Pittsburgh's Rolling Ingot Steam Locomotives Railroad Street Jul 11, 2024 43.5K subscribers ... 75,728 views ... 3K likes In the 1930s and 1940s, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation had seven 23' gauge 0-4-0T engines built to operate at their Pittsburgh Southside Works. These heavy engines weighed in at 93,000 pounds and were nicknamed 'Rolling Ingots.' GoPro Courtesy of: ‪@PennsyPro‬ Special Thanks to: ‪@YoungstownSteelHeritage‬ Support Railroad Street on Patreon: / railroadstreet Tip Jar: https://ko-fi.com/railroadstreetmedia 0:00 Iron and Steel they've been the backbone of modern industry since the Industrial Revolution for more than 150 years railroads and Freighters have connected the transportation and production of these substantial Metals the stre miles north of downtown Youngstown Ohio are 0:18 four unique narrowgate steam locomotives that once operated at a steel mill in 0:23 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania these small but odd-shaped engines have earned them the nickname 0:28 rolling ingots so let's take a visit to the Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation and learn more 0:35 about these beefy tea kettles 0:43 [Music] 0:54 [Music] JNL History 1:05 the Jones and laughland Steel Corporation was one of the largest Iron and Steel manufacturers in the United 1:11 States during the 19th and 20th centuries the organization traces its roots back to 1:18 1853 when Benjamin F Jones joined a partnership with Samuel Kier and brothers Bernard and John Loth to form 1:25 Jones Loth and Company when James llin bought into the firm it became Jones and 1:31 Lins the company's facilities were located in Birmingham Pennsylvania on the south side of what is now 1:38 Pittsburgh originally The Firm strictly dealt in puddling pig iron to produce rot iron iron bars and plates by 1894 1:48 however JNL had exited the production of iron in favor of their increasing steel 1:53 business Jones and loin steel uh Pittsburgh Works which was on the manong Pittsburgh Works History 1:58 river just up from the point had a 23in gauge rail operation ever since they 2:04 started to plant in the 1850s and over the years uh as the plant 2:10 grew and uh they did more steel production there it kind of got hemmed 2:16 in to the point where they couldn't put anything larger than the 23in Gauge Railroad that they had so their only 2:22 choice was to uh uh buy larger and heavier locomotives so over the years 2:28 they would buy locomotives from either Pittsburgh locomotive works or um uh HK 2:35 Porter and getting heavier and heavier and in the N mid 1920s they had a uh had 2:42 several maid that weighed 60,000 lb but by um the mid 30s those were no longer 2:49 big enough and then they bought seven of these that uh weighed in about 2:55 93,000 uh the 58 and 57 were the first ones built they um were built 3:03 1937 uh then couple years later another one was built and the last two were 3:10 built in 1947 and so they had a they had a total of um seven locomotives over the years 3:17 so mainly uh what they were used for in the old part of the steel making plant 3:23 was moving uh Ingot molds and ingots from The Open Hearth to the uh soaking 3:28 pits and also providing just general rail 3:34 transportation in among that that original part of the plant which included the uh the the number one and 3:41 number two open har there was uh a blooming Mill there a couple rolling Mills they had something they called a 3:47 polishing Mill machine shops and other warehouses and so this this Narrow Gauge 3:53 operation ran through and among uh all these buildings and it was quite 3:58 extensive and very curves and limited clearances in there the uh the narrow 4:04 gagee operation at the Pittsburgh work stopped uh sometime in the mid to late 1950s so out of out of the seven Crown Metal Products 4:12 locomotives uh six of them were sitting on a deadline at the plant and uh fellow my name of Ken 4:20 Williams who started Crown Metal Products he hired a fellow who was a 4:26 engineer for HK Porter to help him design his 440 locomotives and this this 4:33 engineer from Porter you know you could drive down second uh not Second Avenue 4:38 but uh R 837 and you could see these locomotives in the plant and apparently one day he remarked that you know it's 4:44 like I was kind of proud of that design so we worked on that and you know I was really proud of of those locomotives 4:50 that we built which gave Ken an idea he he thought well maybe uh maybe we could get the steel mill to sell me one of 4:56 them we'll fix it up there and put it out at the farm so he went to JNL and asked them if they would sell them one 5:01 of the locomotives and they said no we won't sell it to you but we'll give you all six of them if you get them off the 5:08 property so they uh they took all six of them built a little piece of track out at the farm in Elizabeth and trucked 5:15 them all out there uh the seven locomotive we don't know what happened to it it never left the plant so it 5:22 either got scrapped some other place or destroyed or something of the 5:27 six uh there was one that a uh a local farmer wanted and I 5:33 think he just wanted the chassis and so they took the they took the boiler off and all that and saved a chassis for him 5:39 but then he backed out of it so I end up scrapping the rest of it another one the 5:45 62 uh went to uh Colorado it was purchased by a private owner Colorado 5:50 and trucked out there then another fellow up in Canada wanted to buy a couple of them so he bought two of them 5:56 and he also a 30-in gauge porter tank engine that came out of latro steel so 6:02 he took those up to Canada the 59 and the 58 uh were the two that were left 6:10 behind they ended up at a rigger's yard over in Cranberry PA and that's where I 6:16 first saw him and you drive down the Pennsylvania Turnpike you could see him off to the side and you know this was in 6:22 the mid99s and I'm you know just out of high school and had no money but I wanted to save one and remember that 58 6:30 was the locomotive that was featured in the 1941 locomotive encyclopedia so I thought that would be the one that I 6:36 that I'd like to get well when we went there and looked at him 58 was uh in 6:42 fairly decent shape uh 59 however had a large crack running through the uh the 6:50 right side cylinder casting and um John benkart who owned him at the time said 6:55 well nobody's going to want to buy it like that so you know I'm just going to cut it up cuz his property is pretty 7:02 small so he needed the space so we we made a deal with him and a friend of mine my name of Dave roer said well if 7:08 you're going to scrap it uh I'd like to buy the boiler so he bought the boiler took it up to maery to his house had no 7:14 use for it he just didn't want to see it get cut up since at the time I was planning on buying 7:19 58 I uh I said well I'll buy all the the 7:24 the the side rods and all the various bits and pieces off of it and so I got all that stuff and and put it in storage 7:32 and the only thing he really cut up with the saddle tank and the frame and the cab of the 59 well I never did buy 58 7:40 time goes on it gets sold to fella over by weon it was there for a while then 7:45 Jonas stutsman up in Middlefield bought it it went up to Middlefield to his boiler shop and then that's where I 7:52 found it up there bought it and brought it down here now of course we have that 7:59 Loc motive and I didn't know about the existence of the rest of them so we get it down here and start working on it 8:06 then I get an email from a fellow it's like hey my brother was the guy who owned it before Jonas he's passed away 8:13 but the saddle tank is in his yard over his house and we're getting ready to sell the house to settle the estate so I 8:21 went over there and found the saddle tank back in the woods with the trees growing around it and so got it and 8:26 there was also two SE or sets of drivers there from the 59 we got it got those 8:32 and then then I found out about the two locomotives in Canada and uh 8:38 so I find a couple years goes by the family up there is like hey we want to 8:43 sell the farm we want to get these off the property if you want them you know we want we want 10 grand Canadian a 8:48 piece which is like $7,900 American so this was in the middle of covid and uh traveling to Canada wasn't 8:56 the easiest thing to do so I found someone up in Canada who would handle 9:01 getting them shipped and all I had to do is pay the bills and he would handle everything up there so he got the cranes 9:07 on inside got the truck got everything loaded up they went over to a uh like a 9:12 a truck wash so they could pressure wash them and for $600 a piece just blew like 9:18 five tons of dirt and and and rocks and vegetation all that off of them before 9:24 they came over the Border then we brought them down here and unloaded them then the following year I find out about 9:31 the the one that's out in Colorado and so we make a deal to go out and get it and so last August we went out there 9:37 bought it and then trued it back and then even before the ones in Canada that boiler that Dave had saved 9:45 he sold it to the Niles Canyon railroad out in California and it went to California cuz they had a standard gauge 9:51 Porter that they thought that they could retrofit that boiler tuo but they never did so it sat out there um in their yard 9:58 so bought it back and brought it back so all the existing parts of the six 10:03 locomotives that are still around we have here now after a you know two 10:10 country you know full full across the continent uh basically scavenger hunt 10:15 looking for all these parts that scavenger hunt resulted in JNL 58 Steel Heritage 10:21 returning the steam in 2019 since that time the engine has attracted attention both Nationwide and 10:28 internationally Youngstown Steel Heritage stands out among museums as one of the few us 10:34 nonprofits dedicated to the restoration an operation of historic steel making 10:39 equipment offering visitors an immersive experience of living history so on on a Tank Engine 10:45 on your typical steam locomotive here they're all is they could be as large as the big boy or as small as something 10:52 like this uh they all have basically the same components and you have a boiler 10:57 over a frame and running gear and drivers and cylinders up front so on on 11:04 this particular one it's called a tank engine cuz up here is a water tank it carries the water above the 11:10 boiler and the coal is in the is in the tender behind us 11:15 so inside the boiler you have a series of uh 2in diameter steel pipes called 11:21 boiler tubes this one has 85 of them that go from about right here up to 11:27 almost all the way up front there is a fire box here and there is a 11:33 a steel box and then there's another box outside of it and there's they're about this far apart and there's water in 11:41 between and that water um will conduct the heat away from that inner fire box 11:47 uh and with you know with the fire inside so you have a coal fire going on the inside there which is heating up all 11:53 this water you know when that water boils it uh um it'll be a about 12:00 300° and under under pressure so this can run up to about 200 PBS of pressure 12:06 at the top is a throttle valve so once you're ready to move you open the throttle valve and let steam out out to 12:13 the cylinders up front steam comes out through this pipe down into this uh this 12:21 is the valve chest so in here is a is a valve that moves back and forth and as 12:27 it moves back and forth it lets the steam in on this side or this side so when it lets it in on this side pushes 12:34 the piston forward then the valve moves and then it puts the seam on this side 12:40 but pushes back and then that that reciprocating motion that then thus 12:46 becomes uh rotary motion back here on the main drivers so then this turns and 12:52 you can start moving down the track then you have another Rod that connects and the side Rod that connects both sets of 12:58 dri Now by changing the orientation of the valves through this here um reverse 13:06 length you're able to uh move either forward or backward so normally uh you 13:13 would be in the up position for uh going forward on this one you're in the up 13:19 position for going forward and the down position for going backwards so we have 13:24 other other features here you know the water coming out of the saddle tank down through the these lines would go back 13:30 into the cab there's something in there called an injector which basically takes Steam and then pushes it through a 13:37 series of nozzles which then sucks the water with it and then injects it 13:42 through this line through a check valve and then into the boiler and then we have one on either side now up front 13:50 here in the Smoke Box is also very important cuz where the 13:56 gases are coming out they intersect with the exhaust steam 14:01 coming out of the cylinders and the exhaust steam coming out of the cylinders comes up in the middle and there is a uh a nozzle and so it the 14:09 steam will shoot up through the stack well as it's doing that it's creating a draft so it start it's wanting to pull 14:16 the uh the products of combustion from the Firebox through the tubes and out to 14:22 stack so the more the locomotive works the hotter and more intense the fire is 14:27 so it's you you know it it's it's it's basically self-feeding there are some other other features on here uh there's 14:36 one line here that goes in there is is a blower so when you're sitting still you 14:41 can turn that blower on it blows steam up through that creates that artificial draft um that so you you can um you know 14:49 you can you can work the fire with while you're sitting stationary there's uh these particular 14:55 items these are called drifting valves that open when you're when you're drifting when there's no steam in the cylinders but the engine's moving it's 15:03 still displacing air in there so this sucks air in uh into the 15:08 cylinders you have uh rigging here for the uh what they call cylinder and 15:14 they're little valves at the bottom of the cylinder so when these cylinders are are rather cool that steam will come in 15:19 and condense into water and if you don't have a way to get the water out water being non-compressible when that 15:26 cylinder when that piston comes forward it could blow this Cinder head off so you have those cylinder for getting that water out sitting here in 15:33 the engineer seat so you have your throttle that's what allows the steam to go out to the cylinders you have 15:39 something called a Johnson bar which is uh forward and reverse um that's 15:44 actually forward and that's reversed and you have various notches so 15:50 that the further back you go the longer of the stroke it's letting steam into 15:55 the cylinder so uh that's not very economical use of steam back there but 16:01 there's plenty of power and the further you get towards the middle the more economical you are 16:07 operating and over here is another handle this is 16:13 the uh brakes so on this one here it's uh just a straight air brake system there off and 16:20 on there's a uh um the injector is over here this is the steamline for the 16:26 injector this is the blower that was talking about the um the creating the artificial draft so this here will uh 16:34 run a blower uh this here line going up front 16:41 there's a whistle up on the front of this and so this is the line that uh provides the steam out to that whistle 16:48 uh and there is another valve back there for the Dynamo and that uh that's make the electrical power we have the 16:55 pressure gauge you were at about uh 135 lb right now your water 17:01 glass this tells you the amount of water in the boiler so we're about we're about right here uh which is pretty good for 17:08 us right where we're sitting these three are if you want to check the 17:14 uh check the steam water level um without using a sight glass it's a 17:21 second way of doing it if you look at you can see you got steam coming out there but you come down here and you can 17:27 see water coming out so by using those uh gauge coocks 17:33 depending on if you see water or steam will give you an idea where the water levels at uh early locomotives didn't 17:39 have sight glasses they just used gauge clocks um and now with the sight glass it's also just a 17:46 uh um it's a it's a secondary way in case something would happen with this 17:52 and then you have the very important oil cans one for steam cylinder oil one for 17:57 uh engine oil uh we call it PB&J pin bearing and journals not peanut butter and 18:03 jelly um and then over here this is a valve for the air compressor which is in 18:10 tender and all the way on the left is a blowdown and uh we got a pressure gauge 18:17 over here for air brakes and then in here is well used to be a fire but just 18:23 mostly out right now and there's the Firebox so we'll get we'll get that going here again in a second throw a 18:30 little coal in there uh but that's basically how it all works I Al we also 18:36 got the Locomo Bell there this the Sanders these are the uh um selector 18:44 switches for the headlights and I got some other switches over there for additional lighting so 18:50 that's that's basically all you have in a very simple little uh Tank Train Ride 18:57 Engine now that we've learned learn about these amazing machines let's build back our fire and have some fun riding 19:03 on the J&L Narrow Gauge Railroad so sit back relax and enjoy the 19:09 [Music] 19:20 [Music] 19:27 trip sh [Music] 20:00 [Music] 20:11 sh [Music] 20:43 d 20:59 [Music] 21:12 [Music] 21:22 [Music] 21:44 [Applause] [Music] what 21:49 [Music] 21:56 [Applause] [Music] 22:02 [Applause] 22:08 [Applause] 22:14 is 22:37 sh 22:53 [Music] 22:58 got 23:03 [Music] 23:09 [Laughter] [Music] 23:16 [Applause] [Music] 23:25 [Applause] 23:34 [Applause] 23:42 sh 23:53 [Laughter] [Music] 24:05 f 24:14 [Laughter] 24:34 although the J&L Narrow Gauge Railroad Remains the Museum's most popular exhibit their collection features many 24:40 other items most notably a massive stationary steam engine called the Todd 24:46 engine when uh I was just just getting started in industrial preservation I 24:51 learned about the existence of that Todd engine over at um Brier Hill at 24:56 Northstar Steel and in 96 the mill donated it to us now 25:04 I graduated high school in ' 92 I never really been in an industrial setting before this steel mill donates this 260 25:10 ton steam engine and told us that we could go in there and take it out and I had no clue 25:16 of how to do any of that stuff so I got I got in touch with a few people who were uh stationary gas engine 25:24 collectors and they came out to help and and so we just basically over a 10-month 25:32 period you know went from one Miracle to another somehow we managed to get that 25:37 thing tore apart and out of the building and all we had to do was take it to the other end of the plant put it in another 25:43 building in storage so we did that and then once we had it torn apart Todd Engine Restoration 25:49 and in storage then came the task of well now we got to find something to do with it so I looked around found some 25:55 property found this piece of property here and bought it in 2000 and at the time I 26:02 was working for CSX so you know technically CSX bought the property through my wages um and then over the 26:11 next seven or eight years we slowly brought the parts over and start putting 26:16 the engine together then in 2009 we built the building I found an Morgan 26:21 overhead crane put in the building um then did some restoration on 26:27 the engine and um 2014 with its 100th anniversary so we had it restored for by 26:33 then and then at the end of 2014 is when I found this and then interest completely shifted from the stationary 26:39 steam engine to the locomotive and really hadn't looked at it for for the next 8 or nine years but now that you 26:47 know the railroad is mostly done the locomotive runs you know we can go and fire this up running around any time 26:53 felt that let's get the Todd engine restored and done watch while I'm still 26:59 you know young enough and physical enough to actually get the work done so we're spending the next 2 years to get 27:06 the Todd engine finished the eventual goal is to have it operational with an 27:11 electric motor to to to rotate it and also set up that we can run it on Steam 27:17 and there's certain ideas that we have one of the problems is is that the highpressure cylinder on it it's 34 in 27:24 in diameter these boilers are 39 in so boiler boilers are a little bit on the small 27:29 side um so we have some issues to to deal with as to how we're going to 27:34 generate steam to operate it but that's the eventual goal so our our main Steam Locomotive Experience 27:42 program that we have going on is called a steam locomotive experience and it is just like an 27:48 engineer for an hour program that several other museums have but ours is a little bit different cuz we start in the 27:54 morning with a cold locomotive and whoever comes out to participate that day we'll you know 28:00 build the fire in it light the fire you know spend 2 hours waiting for it to get 28:06 steam pressure all the while we're waking it up and doing all the lubrication and oiling and then uh 28:12 taking it out over the rail road and they get an opportunity to run it up and down the track a few times um that's set 28:18 up so that we can have anywhere from one to four people come out for the day and 28:25 uh we we meet at a restaurant in the morning we buy breakfast for for everyone we get to know each other a 28:30 little bit then come over here get the locomotive going uh we've been doing that uh for the last couple of years 28:37 it's been pretty pretty popular uh we had quite a few people come out to take part in that you know one one of the 28:43 things how we're a little bit different than some of the other programs is that we actually start from cold with the locomotive so you get to see it from 28:49 pulling it out of The Engine House to putting it back in the engine house at the end of the day so you get a full 28:55 experience with locomotive in addition to that um we have a group of volunteers that comes 29:00 out here on weekends and works on various different things and um of course we have 29:06 memberships as well um so you know the what what we try to do here is is we we 29:14 like to have fun doing this sort of thing uh it's all quite enjoyable we work on a lot of different uh things and 29:20 you know we could be working on Steam locomot doing track you know fabricating things lifting our overhead crane work 29:27 so we could we've taken Parts on and off the engine so we we do just about anything and everything here that of an 29:33 industrial nature to learn more about the Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation Outro 29:39 visit their website online at Youngstown ste.org I hope everyone enjoyed this 29:45 video as much as I did while making it to help support the channel make sure to like this video And subscribe to 29:51 Railroad Street for more videos just like this until next time I'll catch you 29:57 on the rails 30:04 [Music]

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