[SEL] Another Large Preserved Rolling Mill Engine

[Tod Engine]

An often overlooked but preserved large stationary steam engine is the 48" Universal plate mill engine from the US Steel Homestead Works.  It was built around 1898 by Mackintosh Hemphill in Pittsburgh and is a 50" x 60" two cylinder simple reversing engine.  The engine and mill was saved by the Steel Industry Heritage Corp., dismantled and placed in storage in the Pittsburgh area.  Maybe now that Allegheny County has acquired the Carrie blast furnaces this engine and mill may find a home at that site.  

HAER documented the engine and mill in 1989 and the pictures are online at:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/index.html 

Search for " Homestead 48 Mill ". It should be the second result.

Rick Rowlands
Executive Director
Tod Engine Heritage Park
William Tod 34" x 68" x 60" Cross Compound Steam Engine
Youngstown, OH
http://www.todengine.org/
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