Pipe or Wire Manufacturer Loads and Prototypes

[CodyO]

Looking to add a largish industry to my layout to fix in a roughly 10'x2' space

I`m thinking some kind of steel industry that receives ingots and puts out finished products

Such as this wheel manufacturer in Burnham PA
https://goo.gl/maps/TouHCLaiBntor6YN8


@Ed Kapuscinski also brought up a pipe manufacturer, which I think would be good too.

Looking for proto industries to roughly try and base a trackplan around.

I would like something that uses a mixture of Gondola`s,Flat`s and boxcars for product and is in the 50s era.

[mu26aeh]

Couple of steel/pipe related industries along the Susquehanna in Steelton area.  If you pan southeast of this location, there is a pipe company at the PA turnpike bridge

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2298225,-76.8385611,1454m/data=!3m1!1e3

[ai5629]

The Bethlehem Steel plant in Steelton, PA would ship many carloads of pipe on Conrail train ESPI on ex MDT 89' flatcars.  I recall those trains running almost daily for several years starting in the late 80's.  If Western PA works, there was the USS National Works in McKeesport, PA.  They made seamless and welded pipe of all different sizes.  The plant was served by the McKeesport Connecting Railroad (then URR), the PRR (then PC, then CR) and the B&O (then CS, then CSX).  The National works was a fully integrated mill.  Towards the end, when the hot end shut down, they got sheet from Irvin to weld and rounds from Duquesne for seamless.  When USS left town in 1987, it was taken over by Camp Hill Corporation.  In a twist of fate, USS bought it back in the 2000's.  Then, when demand fell, they shut it down again.  Durabond currently owns the pipe operations and is making pipe there today.  Thanks.

Jeff