High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools

[Toolmaker51]

When a supervisors office is on casters, likely he's many processes to oversee.
He knows it's a large plant, when that office also has lifting eyes to hoist by bridge crane.

Of so many pics Jon has presented, this is first I recall depicting duckboards.
Have made a couple over the years, best surface for prolonged standing, and minimizing chips underfoot. Lifted occasionally, chips are right there, ready to scoop and dispose.
But end-grain wood bricks still first choice.

[Isambard]

I don't think those are duck boards, more like planks covering a pit.
Most of Mesta's plant was driven from below. Difficult to drive
overhead, when the majority of the product was shifted by
overhead crane.

[Jon]

Ingot casting pits at the Mesta Machine Company. West Homestead, PA. 1910/1920.

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[Jon]

Carnegie Steel Company Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1893.

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[Toolmaker51]

Carnegie Steel Company Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1893.

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Email titled this "1893 Carnegie Steel Company Workers"
I'm renaming it 1893 Carnegie Steel Company Workers, at lunch.

[Jon]

Billet chutes at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1908.

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[Toolmaker51]

Billet chutes at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1908.

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One guy descaling tremendous quantity of iron or steel billets. What leads me to state that?
Only one work coat hanging on the bridge crane upright, off to his left.
Unsure how billets make it from chutes to area between crane span, or how the stacking occurs under crane rail.......

[Jon]

Self-propelled scale car by Howe Scale of Rutland, VT. 1905.

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[IntheGroove]

Being winter, the laundry shouldn't get dusty...

[Jon]

Brown electric hoist unloading ore carrier. Buffalo, NY. 1908.

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