The Gas Blowing Engine House

This is the Gas Blowing Engine House. Again I tried to get shots that document the building's details.
This is the current state of the building.

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The Gas Blowing Engine House in 1995

These are shots of the Gas Blowing Engine House showing the sign still on the side. Inside were huge single cylinder engines. The second and 3rd shots were taken on Nov 17 2006.

Below are some shots of the inside of the building taken on November 17, 2006.

In this shot you can see the size of the flywheel. It was huge.

Here you can see how long each single cylinder engine was. They used a combination of piped in gas and waste gas to fuel the engines.

Here is a control station for the engines.

Below are pictures I scanned in from August of 1995, about 2 months before the mill closed. We had just toured the inside of blast furnace 'C', crossed over the high line and gone down into the storage bins. We then came up some stairs and we were in the Gas Blowing Engine House. All I remember is that the place was huge and very clean for a steel mill building. The building was intact, not like now with half of it missing.

Dave Organek, Rich Roth (our guide) and Mike Curry

Rob Davis, Bob Judge and Dave Organek