URR #7 idle awaiting her next assignment.
CWRO 211 switches the hot bottle cars at ISG.
4 Union MP15's work hard to shove a steel slab train upgrade.
Tunnel Motors lug a long and heavy limestone train into North Bessemer.
Located along CSX Mon Subdivision south of McKeesport. Taken from the Glassport-Clairton bridge. Mon-Valley Transportation NW2 (4/47, 4798), ex-USS/Maple Creek Mine #561, exx-Union Railroad #561,... (more)
While waiting for the Pennsy Es I grabbed a shot of this mill switcher.
The late-morning coke train from Clairton usually rates 5 MP15DC's, and moves slowly enough to facilitate a chase. Irvin works yard is at right.
The hottest train on the Union! Loaded steel slabs from USX Edgar Thomson works are headed for the rolling plant at Irvin, at right. The route to the left continues to the Clairton coke works.
By 1992, J&L's North Mill blast furnace has been demolished...one of the former in-plant switchers sat quietly awaiting the torch. Note the chalk-applied name "Iron Buggy" on the cab near the num... (more)
Trailer jet flies past a P&LE local working the yard serving J&L steel.
The Mel Blount Hot Metal Car returns from the BOF, its top covered to retain heat. Camera Canon 10D and 70-200mm lens, 1/350 second, f8.0, F.L. 200mm, ISO 100.
Enroute to Edgar Thomson. Camera Nikon Coolpix 5700. 1/102 second exposure, f3.9, Focal Length 37.7mm, ISO 100
The "Crow" painted 208 teams up with another ex River Terminal unit,the 205.
