Artifacts

	FLYWHEEL This flywheel weighs 124 tons and is 24 ft. in diameter. It was used to help compress pre-heated ingots through large rollers and reduce them in size. One ingot, 18" square and 6' long was reshaped into six billets, 4" square and 30' long. The flywheel provided inertia to help keep the rollers in constant motion and avoid jams. Power was supplied by a 5000HP, flyball governed, Corliss compound steam engine.	Drawing of the blooming mill roller operation. Wall is a cutaway to show the location of the flywheel and the steam engine in the adjacent building.
LADLE CHARGING POT	LADLE-Used with open Hearth and Electric Furnace-1905-1974 Molten steel was poured from the furnace into the ladle. The ladle was moved above the molds and steel flowed from the bottom of the ladle into the molds forming ingots.	CHARGING POT-Used with Electric Furnace Only-1964-1974 Used to measure and mix the ingredients to make steel. Scrap iron was the main ingredient along with other additives. The mixture varied in accordance with the customer's order.
	LeTOURNEAU FORKLIFT and SLAG POT This 50 ton fork lift truck was purchased specifically to carry slag to the dumping area. The truck went right into the plant. There, an overhead crane lifted a 30 ton pot of hot slag out of a pit and placed it on to special attachments on the forks. At speeds of 9 mph, the truck carried slag a mile to the dump. There, a winch on the truck rotated the slag pot and dumped its contents.	View of the furnace that tilted to pour off slag into a pot positioned in a pit.
	RAILROAD OPERATION The Roebling mill had an intricate railroad system for materials moving that was on the cutting edge of its day. Fourteen miles of track transported the work in process throughout the mill. The operation had over 80 pieces of standard railroad equipment including six diesel engines and two diesel cranes. The cranes loaded heavy reels of steel cable on to gondola cars to be shipped to a bridge job site. A crane, a 45 ton diesel, a gondola, a flat car and eight ingot and mold cars will be restored and placed on display in the millyard.

An assortment of other large artifacts, including the rope stretcher , is planned for exhibition later.