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ORIGINAL CONTENT: Photos of the aftermath of the BOP demolition at Weirton Steel yesterday. All of these were taken off Main/Route 2 just after the blast, the last photo of the sculpture was a block up wind for reference. You can see how blue the sky was. Down closer to the BOP the sky was thick with thirty some years of mill dust. You could chew the wind. There was a WPD cruiser in the first photo with its lights on you couldn’t see a block away. They didn’t have to dynamite the building, it was a cost saving measure that blew windows out, cracked walls, and covered all of Weir Ave with who knows what. I feel for the people that live there. Bet they didn’t dynamite the munitions plant that made 8” shells during WWII and Korea when they cleared the land it occupied for the BOP back when. Profit over people baby. Link to a news segment about the fallout in the FB comments. #therustjungle #basicoxygenfurnace #weirtonsteel #weirton #arcelormittal #demolition #demolished (at Weirton, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/therustjungle/p/Bu1eHLZHCX8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=c4hien3om8o

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ORIGINAL CONTENT: Aerial view of the Trumbull Cliffs blast fce., Republic Steel Warren Works. The furnace was 300’ +/- for scale. Didn’t fly the drone, but hired DP Visual Media to capture flyover footage of the doomed furnace the day the demo permit was approved. Plenty of high res stills and 4K video where this came from. #therustjungle #steelmill #steelvalley #republicsteel #warren #warrenohio #demolished #industry #steelindustry (at WCI Steel) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxugkAnBCa9/?igshid=hhw8vk9nndwc

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ORIGINAL CONTENT: Torched I beam looking like a fossil off Wilson Avenue. Guessing this was a structural beam in a demolished section of the Fitzsimons Steel Co. just across the river from where Republic Steel’s Hazelton Works stood. Fitzsimons was originally incorporated as the Finished Steel Co., Inc. in 1895. They specialized in cold drawn steel bars in round - sqaures - flat - hexagonal and special forms for machine construction. Not sure when they closed the doors but by 1981 the mill was occupied by Phoenix Electric Co. #therustjungle #youngstown #steelvalley #steelmill #industialarcheology #fossil (at Industrial Mill Maintenance, Inc.) https://www.instagram.com/therustjungle/p/BwzhhkNBjsp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jvjxyh7u7vkv

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ORIGINAL CONTENT: Big wrench for a big nut, stumbled across at the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Campbell Works a decade or so ago. Fire hose for scale. #therustjungle #steelmill #steelvalley #steelindustry #youngstownsheetandtube #campbell #camel #ohio #youngstown (at Patsy's Bar & Grille) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByINQGIhzfK/?igshid=2j6ulsh3pefn

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ORIGINAL CONTENT: Obsolete doorways @ Republic Steel Niles plant circa mid 2000s. When Republic bought this plant during WWI there were twenty-eight sheet mills, two jobbing mills, five cold rolling mills, and a galvanizing plant. I believe an extrusion company rehabbed and uses this part of the mill now. #therustjungle #steelvalley #steelmill #niles #nilesohio #republicsteel (at Cleary's Bar in Niles, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/therustjungle/p/BxAF4wBBAI_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i0qc1374zg04

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VINTAGE: Aerial view of Youngstown Sheet & Tube South Chicago works. US Steel’s South Works just across the Calumet River. Everything in this photo is demolished. #therustjungle #youngstownsheetandtube #ussteel #chicago #southsidechicago (at Steelworkers Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/BriIJglHgof/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eyizzg66dvqy

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ORIGINAL CONTENT: Day vs Night @ US Steel Ohio Works sinter plant - Youngstown, O. circa mid 2000s I don’t think I planned to take both of these from the same vantage point, pretty sure It just worked out that way. The dark photo was from a summer night when I went down there with my cousins and a couple buddies. I wandered off solo at some point, think I was hanging out on the LE&E trestle over Division St. watching the action at V&M Star (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Brier Hill Works). The rest of them went up in the mill and were going through those conveyor chutes. Said they came across two guys in there stealing wire. I guess the scrappers kept asking them what gang they were from, couldn’t understand why they were there. They wound up talking to these guys and they said they been scrapping the place since the 90s. Said they were there with another guy and the cops came. They were running towards downtown on the old LE&E RR line and I guess their buddy fell off the trestle over the river still holding his bag of wire. Said they never saw the guy again. #therustjungle #steelvalley #steelmill #rustbelt #youngstown #youngstownohio #ussteel #youngstownsheetandtube #abandoned #demolished (at Steelton, Youngstown) https://www.instagram.com/therustjungle/p/BvmdGoRha_W/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9o2zn49elm1y

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ORIGINAL CONTENT: Sharon Steel Lowellville Works pump house as seen from a kayak on the Mahoning River. Link to full blog post in fb comments that contains images of every industrial relic along the river from downtown Youngstown to downtown Lowellville. #therustjungle #steelvalley #youngstown #ohio #lowellville #steelmill #industrialarcheology (at Melillos Tavern) https://www.instagram.com/therustjungle/p/BwWvWkxB949/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=io6b12fpft2y