COKE WORKS

The oven pusher was enormous with a fabricated lattice-type steel ram. The quench car was shuttled to the ovens, quench tower and coke wharf by small four-wheel, high-cab locomotives built by Atlas. The quench tower had a cast concrete base and portal with a wood tower above housing the water sprays, which cooled the incandescent coke, and the steam exhaust stack. There were a plethora of conveyors moving coal from the dump/sizing building to a huge charging hopper above the middle of the battery, and from the coke wharf to the sizing building for delivery to the blast furnaces.

By 1980, the coal chemical plant was pretty much gone, but the rest remained. In the twilight of its operations the coke oven gas was sent via a pipe to the open end of one of the rolling mill buildings where it was flared.

	Coal and coke conveyors, crusher and sizing buildings
The charging deck where the coal is dumped in measured amounts into the ovens.
	The discharge side where the incandescent coke is pushed into a quench car.
Locomotive used to move quench car around.
	Coke oven gas being flared near one of the rolling mill buildings.