48-inch mill leveler at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1940-1960.
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48-inch mill leveler at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1940-1960.
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Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1893-1895.
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Farmall M tractor. Waterloo, NB. September, 1941.
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I had farming relatives that said this model almost broke Farmall, as they were reliable and didn't break parts.
883 The old toy truck on the hood is a nice touch.
We grew up with a Super M-TA (Torque Amplifier). It was a great tractor, and my favorite until Dad bought a new JD 3020. It did need a ring job at one point and I got to work with my Dad doing that in our little tractor shed. Actually got a lot of practice taking the head off, as we installed the head gaskets upside down on the first two times reassembling the engine!
Jack
The are still a few of them in use around here.
https://geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=waterloo
I give up; which place is Waterloo NB? With 55 so named 'Waterloo' places, thought "can narrow it down myself!".
Foundry ladle. 1943.
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Welding lathe at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. May, 1959.
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Whistle Bottling Works. Washington, D.C. 1925.
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You would almost think the place should be more hygienic...
If your mother was anything like my mother, "I put it in a safe place" is where you need to be looking!
Did you happen to catch this sign in the Welding Lathe photo!!!
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Very true. Hopefully an accident in the shop ends well and everyone learns. I've seen a lot of stupid things happen in 55 years as a mechanic. One was a tech who installed an automatic trans in a garbage truck. He started it and was filling the trans while flushing the cooler lines. I was about 3 bays away and I heard the idle change. The truck was in gear and rolling. The guy is walking with the truck still pumping fluid in it. I'm running and screaming at him. I got the door open and turned the key off as it was about to go through the closed bay door. He didn't have a clue. How the hell do you not realize whats going on. The park brake was on but not holding properly. With that he should have checked the shifter linkage way before he started it. That happened over twenty years ago and It still boils my blood when I tell someone.
Press shop at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1940.
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100-inch plate mill at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1920-1940.
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Ballast cleaning machine at the Monongahela Railway Company. August, 1936.
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Front end of glass furnace at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. 1950.
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Cotton cloth printing machine. Ware Shoals, SC. April, 1932.
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Punch press at the Washington Tinplate Works. Washington, Pennsylvania. January, 1941.
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Mechanically clutched, flywheel driven, straight side punch press.
Unsure operation going on, a lot of daylight between punch holder and bolster, but there is something on the left side. Looks like a cart of tools, not parts. Without feed reels, might be trimming or other secondary operations. It's a good picture at regular size, fantastic enlarged.
A surprisingly small power hacksaw is behind him, and varied bench machinery along the wall.
He may be the guy that changes the dies for the next run...
Gear molding department at the Mesta Machine Company. West Homestead, PA. 1905/1925.
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Steam hydraulic shear at the Mesta Machine Company. 1905/1925.
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Mill in the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company plant. Ensenada, Puerto Rico. January, 1942.
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Steam powered concrete mixer. Holt, AL. 1918.
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Radial drill at the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. McKees Rocks, PA. July, 1904.
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10,000 ton press at the Schoen Steel Wheel Works. McKees Rocks, PA. July, 1939.
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Mesta Machine Company forging press under construction. West Homestead, PA. March, 1918.
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Mesta Machine Company roll lathe. 1905/1925.
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Machinery inside the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Garrison Alley Plant. Circa 1900.
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Any notice the bolted wood timber framework?
It's just bridge for their bridge crane rails, end truck visible upper right.
I did not notice that!! Good Eye.
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A worker operates a main bed transverse drive beam at the Aliquippa Works of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Pennsylvania. April, 1952.
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That's how you build another machine...
Never fails to intrigue me, the immense amount of capital equipment and footprint 'we' had, without considering those concentrating only on consumer goods.
Interior of the Forge Department at the Mesta Machine Company. West Homestead, PA. March, 1918.
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