ArcelorMittal #1012 and a traction calf push cars back into the deeper, lakeside portion of the mill. Lake Michigan lays behind, building energy from the wind blowing from the south today.

ArcelorMittal #1012 and a traction calf (behind, not visible) sit near the station house, preparing for a morning of switching. A section of the western expanse of the massive ArcelorMittal compl... (more)

A Saturday trip to Weirton back in '09 didn't reward much activity, as expected, at the once bustling steel mill. Seeming almost abandoned, it was a bit of a surprise when one of the in plant SW15... (more)

Railway of Valle. Asturias (Spain)

ArcelorMittal power shoving a cut of coke cars back into the former Inland Steel plant one.

On the west side of the plant, switcher 1012 and traction slug S-3 work on a single coil car.

Not remotely-controlled today, though.

ArcelorMittal switcher 153 pushes scrap gons into the plant, while another MTSX switcher waits to use the switches. On the left, a CP train bends onto the IHB, while an Amtrak Wolverine approaches... (more)

ArcelorMittal 153 has been around this plant for some time, in various paint schemes. Today it's shuttling scrap gondolas around the southwest boundary of the plant.

ArcelorMittal 301 rolls out of the plant with fresh ingots, hot out of the moulds. You can see the heat distortion best off the cars near the back. When this train got near, the ambient temperat... (more)

Two empty bottle trains have been doubled up and will soon be shoved back into the plant while another mill switcher pulls some flats with still hot steel.

An aging switcher drags a cut of hot slabs out to shove down towards the harbor. (A rolling mill, maybe?)