All times are not exact: 0:58 electric arc (now used as bottle car repair) , 1:24 building used by contractors, 1:34 caster ( 3 strand), 2:16 BOF Basic oxygen furnace and precipitator (the shiny part lower screen), 2:47 blast furnace area, 2:47 long building is EE bldg. used to be part of the coke ovens which would have been just above it on the video. 2:57 shows the old powerhouse 3:13 the remaining ore bridge, 3:26 is a pan of the furnaces A, B, and C. Only C is in use. 4:11 reverse view, C,B, then A. 5:05 warehouse and utility departments, 5:44 boat slip side of BOF, 6:08 east side of caster, 6:14 cold mill (large building right side closed down in 2020) 7:00 PLTCM with HDGL just to the right (replaced cold mill) 7:10 top to bottom of screen Slab yard, Hot strip mill (closed in 2020) and PLTCM. From 7:22 to the end is Marathon. not part of the Rouge Complex.
worked all over in that mill in the 80s and 90s every building actually every building in the rouge. was in the power house when it blew. hence frphx kaboom
Thanks for posting this. Not much going on there now. My father retired from there, when he started there in 1964 there were 43k working there. When he retired in 2000 down to 7k.
@@cynthiafeagin6956 no, Cleveland Cliffs do. They just idled the hot strip mill. Now it no longer has a rolling mill, just slab casting and finishings for imported rolls from Middleton Works in Indiana.
This is the first factory that could take all of the raw materials for a car in and produce a finished product. The steel division was sold off in 1989 and it is now owned by Cleveland Cliffs.
Curious as to why the drone didn't travel little more north to show the contrast of how modern manufacturing is done today. Although the complex is Ford Rouge Complex the video shows nothing that is Ford. Love the creepy sound effects
No more coke ovens, just a single blast furnace and casting lines. They ship the slabs to Middleton for rolling then import them back here. Weird decision but I guess there was some benefit.
What is the name of that building that sits outside the blast furnaces? it looks like a silo with yellow pipes on the side of it, and it'll have pneumatic bulk trailers parked next to it
they shut down the hot mill...really ...had a schedule in that building and worked endless hours under the furnaces for J9 in the 80s and 90s@@jeremiahd2417
I don't get the sound effects and ominous music. This place is a hell of a lot cleaner today than it was 50 years ago. And it was never a scary place to begin with not when I was there. This is Willy Wonka of the Car factory's
