Slab train passes dozens of stored molten metal pots that are no longer used, & awaiting disposition now that Mittal's Weirton operation has closed the "hot end" of the mill.
A look a the Mittal Weirton plant (formerly Weirton Steel). These units are stored awaiting their fate since this Mill stopped making their own steel from raw materials.
Mixed bag of power leads 70 loaded slab gons into West Virginia on this rather Hot & Hazy September day.
Birdseye view of the former PRR Panhandle Bridge.
NS ore loads lead by 2 GP50'S headed for ISG's Weirton plant on a cloudy morning. These units once handled the hottest intermodal trains, but are now lugging slow heavy ore trains. Canon 350D Cano... (more)
Something old, something new, something primered, & something blue lead 100 loads of iron ore over the Ohio River headed toward ISG's Weirton Plant.Canon 350D Canon 17-55mm 1/400 @ f/6.3
ISG Weirton's engine terminal as viewed from US 22.
Two ISG Weirton steel units at their engine terminal.
WSX 306 joins a sister unit to work the Weiton Steel Warehouse
A pair of SWs team up to pull a cut of gondolas past a bottle car.
The 316 sets off a bottle car while another train switches a cut of gons. In the background is a huge machine used for transporting slabs around the plant.
Rush hour at Weirton.
317 accelerates while switching bottle cars.
This former P&LE switcher has a train of 5 bottle cars in tow.
