Russ,
Youngstown Steel Heritage is an organization that I founded about 20 years ago in response to the opportunity to preserve a 260 ton, 4,000 HP stationary steam engine that powered a rolling mill at the YS&T Brier Hill Works.
The preservation of the Tod Engine sparked the search to preserve the history of the steel industry in the Youngstown area by collecting pieces of steelmaking equipment and building a museum. Over the years our mission has expanded to covering Youngstown and Pittsburgh. Aside from the Tod Engine we now own the oldest electric overhead crane in existence, a rare GE 70 tonner center cab, hot metal car, two Alco S2s from the US Steel Ohio Works and the J&L 58.
2016 is the 110th anniversary of the construction of Carrie Furnaces, so we are planning to have the 58 running in time for their "Festival of Combustion" which takes place over Labor Day Weekend. This festival includes an iron pour, bronze pour, glass blowing, metal sculpture, and now steam trains. We are moving right along on the 58 and I don't see any reason why we will not have the 58 ready to run in time, as long as the boiler shop can get the boiler work finished by spring.
We do have a collection of small artifacts, and would be interested in adding your two pieces to our collection. Be sure to write up a good history to go with the face, as with this stuff its all about the stories. Please contact me via PM.
Thanks
RIck Rowlands