That is something I've always wanted to do, the Rivers of Steel Tour. You can see the Carrie Furnace from the Homestead high level bridge. I loaded steel beams at Homestead works in the early 80's. You turned right off the bridge to go down into the steel mill, you went to one side to load beams and turned the other way to load coils. It was the best US Steel facility I ever loaded at. Gary, In. was the worst and Fairless Works wasn't much better. I don't think they cared if you sat there a week waiting to get loaded, and were hateful to you the whole time you were there.
I hadn't been to Fairless, Pa. for a long time but I crossed the Homestead bridge regularly going to Galv-Tech to load. You wouldn't even know a huge steel mill was ever there now. Kind of like Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point, Md. And Bethlehem, Pa. too for that matter.
If any of you are going to Macungie you should go over to the old Bethlehem Steel facility and check it out. They have an elevated walkway that you can walk and see the blast furnaces up close, very interesting to see. Also the 14" gun barrel from the USS Mississippi is displayed there. And there's a casino and several hundred stores there too. Maybe thousands.
The first time I was there since I was actually loading steel there was one night when I was delivering something in Allentown or Bethlehem. A fellow happened to stop by with several chern in his Dodge pickup and told me he was going to take me out for dinner at his cousin's Pizza place. I'd never seen the guy before, but pizza sounded better than beanie-weenies so I got in his truck. Turned out to be a real nice guy, and he showed me around the old steel mill. Big Detroit Diesel fan, he talked a lot about them. Not the new ones, but the old General Motors 2 cycle engines. I think he said he wished he had a 6-71 in his 1958 FWD fire truck.
Oh, that reminds me- he was actually a member here on BMT! Goes by 1958 FWD. I'd like to get him to take us on another tour of the steel mill, it was dark last time.
I also loaded coils at Jones and Laughlin steel in Cleveland several times, it wasn't a bad place to load either.