Some nice drone views here of Ford's historic River Rouge complex, pretty massive and the author did not even fly over the whole complex, this is just a part of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrP5L2T1Bb4
That showed up in my feed yesterday. It was quite interesting. Just a quick FYI--Ford Steel-Rouge Steel-Severstal-AK Steel is now owned by Cleveland Cliffs.
Unless I miss my guess, steel made in Dearborn makes its way south to Middletown, OH in the form of large slabs - the train goes through Deshler daily. It gets rolled there and heads back north.
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There's a steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario that is similar. I've been in there to inspect various items. They have an in-house railroad that moves those molten steel cars around. I was once in the plant where the buckets drop molten steel in a big shower of pouring metal and sparks. You can't be in there anymore when they do that but it was spectacular when I saw it years ago. Sure glad I don't work there full-time.
The main east-west street in that area is Burlington st and is a maze of active rail lines and not far from the steel plant is National Steel Car which build mostly railroad tank cars. There's always a line of them outside the plant, awaiting paint. They built Hawker Hurricane aircraft during the second world war, too.
BackshopThat showed up in my feed yesterday
How do you set that up to get just rail videos? I keep getting the paid political American stooge videos promoting Russia and China. I don't know how that algorithum is working but it has me pegged wrong.
CMStPnP Backshop That showed up in my feed yesterday How do you set that up to get just rail videos? I keep getting the paid political American stooge videos promoting Russia and China. I don't know how that algorithum is working but it has me pegged wrong.
Backshop That showed up in my feed yesterday
There is only one thing that is uglier than a working steel mill - a closed steel mill.
Rust Belt was an apt term with mills that shut down in the swath from Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Cleveland.
As a kid when our family lived in Pitsburgh I recall riding B&O trains from Baltimore to Pittsburgh in both direction and being fascinated by the 'light show' the mills along the Mongahela River presentd. I worked as a Train Order Operator at the B&O towers at Haselton and Ohio Jct as well as temporary train order stations at Tube Works Crossover and Youngstown Station in Youngstown. In Cleveland I worked Bridge 460 as an Operator and as an ATM at Clark Avenue Yard in Cleveland - getting all over the Flats area 'chasing' crews all around the area form Lake Erie to Lester and Jaite.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
My old neighborhood was close to any number of steel mills: Republic, Interlake, Wisconsin Steel (IH), Inland, US Steel (2 mills), among others. Dumping slag was entertaining, as was the cloud of steam when newly processed coke was quenched at Interlake's coke ovens. The original routing of the Interlake bottle train also passed through my neighborhood on the PRR Bernice Cutoff.
BackshopI've never set up anything. It just shows random videos that my past viewing practices might show that I'll like.
I read the Justice Department just did a clean sweep and noticed a lot of them are gone now. So my YouTube feed issue has ended though there are still a few left.
Sad to think - as a Minnesotan - that it could have been built here. Ford originally wanted to build it in Duluth, but the City of Duluth refused to give Ford the property tax break they wanted.
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