CP 502 action, NS, CSX, CP, IHB, and Arcelor Mittal
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- An afternoon at CP502 in East Chiacgo, Indiana. The main attraction is NS's busy Chiacgo Line and IHB's main that crosses. Also included are remote control switchers from Arcelor Mittal's large EC works.
This is one of the best railfanning videos I've ever seen. There is plenty of activity, a good variety of locomotives and rollingstock, and to top it all off it's well recorded.
19:38 NS 7111 has an awesome horn by the way.
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it!
The very best of train operations I've ever seen. I could watch all this action all day long. So much action! Cheers from eastern TN
Thank you so much!
I thought I would only watch a few minutes, and then ended up watching the whole clip. lots of activity, fun to watch. thanks!
same w/ me ...
Glad you enjoyed the show, thanks for watching!
Superb action packed video! 🎉
@@gregginter5867 thank you!
Excellent video with lots of action. Loved seeing those older locos.
Thank you!
What an awesome video capturing both main line and industrial railroading... even with bottle cars. Thanks for the great show
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the action!
One of the best videos on trains I seen, lots of action great to watch I just hope other UTubers who do train videos learn from this
Really glad you appreciated it, thanks for watching!
I'll bet that's your white car parked at the bottom of the pedestrian ramp in several of your shots. I love those little switchers.. Switchers are my favorite. Great footage! Thanks!
That is my white car. Thanks for the comment! Glad you liked it!
Great video, nice catches and tons of action, awesome job!
OH Boy oh boy!!! Got trains running, north, south, east, west, pulln and PUSHN up, and down, this facility never ever rest, it's mind boggling 😱😵😭 I'm lost, lol, I guess this is what to expect when your the steel industry, I've never seen so many, coil cars, nor so many rolls of steel, them poor mini yard locomotives need a good night's rest at night, lol, WOW, thanks for the amazn video!!! EXELLENT FOOTAGE!!👍👍👍💯🌟made in the good ol USA!!!👍🌟👍
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!!
Very interesting and beautiful video! Thank you! 👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
Excellent video! CP 502 is one of my favorite spots for this reason.
steven williams Thanks man. me too! I just love the industrial scenery.
As a non-English speaker, I was really confused when reading REMOTE CON ROLLED. I actually tried to figure out, what ROLLED means with in connection with a locomotive.
Then, I found out, the locomotive is remote *controlled* on the right hand side, but remote *con* *rolled* on the left hand side. Thank you for making clear what you mean.
I think a T fell off somewhere.
Thanks, this is a first class video! Fantastic!
Thank you!
Lovely shot of the roof of the ET44AC at 9:45 !!! Been waiting to see what it looks like from above! :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really great videos. An important documenting of action around East Chicago and Gary mills. Variety just keeps coming. I want to see film shot in 1966 of the same area.
I love the sound of that Arcellor Switcher #008....that little baby has a lot of power...reminds me of the trains pushing coal cars and scrap metal cars along the Allegheny River at night, in and out of Allegheny Ludlum Steel. That deep distinct rumble I'd hear it and it would lull me to sleep.
Definitely an impressive sight!
It's 2020, how busy are things up there now, especially after the sale of Arcelor Mittal's sale ... Excellent video! Have always had a soft spot for Industrial Switching ...
I have not been back here in quite a few months, but when I was things both at the mill and on the main were significance slower. Sad what a few years can do.
Great video! I never thought about going up on that pedestrian bridge because I thought it was basically off-limits.
From what I understand, the walkway bridge i was standing on was built as a part of the Cline Ave project. Sometime in the 90's the state donated it to the city of East Chicago. The rent a cops at the mill will try to kick you out every now and then, and it's usually fun to argue with them.
Wow! That’s gotta be a heavy pull w/all of those coiled cars out of the factory!
As well as the flat slabs!
The RC unit sure shoved that steel load around the corner, fast !
It's a little scary how quickly they move around that sharp corner sometimes!
Wonderful video! Lots of action and super neat trackwork. Would be a good place to model on a layout!
Thanks! Someday I'll have this 502 area modeled. Not exactly, but close enough.
so cool. love this heavy industrial action. thanks for sharing
Me too that's why I like to visit this area from time to time.
Beautiful sunset!!
@ 2:00 WOW... he is rip assin' round that corner ain't he???... holy cow
They sure don't waste any time!
😂😂😂😂. Man, I was thinking the same damn thing
Great video with plenty of good action.
This is AMAZING footage
That little switcher has got some power!
Always neat to catch the hot metal train on its way to the continuous casting mill in Riverdale. Never been here, but I've seen it passing through Dolton.
Great vídeo
Thank you!
É uma maravilha assisti esses vídeos de ferrovias . Pra me é um ótimo lazer . Fui criado perto de ferrovias e entendo muito bem .
Também gosto muito. Na verdade eu amo os trens de ferro.
Railfanned here and Dothan on a road trip between Calif and Grand Rapids on a Sunday. Nice to see the area from the air.
Los trenes en el Este de Chicago , la fabrica de acero , cruces diamante y cambios automaticos .
This is so much better than the Oprah, Prince Harry, and Megan interview.
I agree, thank you! Lol
Your videos are great
Thank you!
Wow, busy place!
Terrific video! Thanks for sharing.
Much appreciated, thank you!
Very good video! :)
Thank you!
Well done.
Thank you
Why the remote controlled Arcelor Mittal yard locomotives but not remote controlled switches? Aren't remote controlled switches rather common? Maybe they want to keep one (low-paid) human on the train to hit the kill swich if the remote control fails.
In the near future every train shown in this video will be auttomated.
Nice video. Thanks for not adding any background music.
What are all of those Xmas tree markers on rear of the switcher cab body! Reflectors or lights?
Oh my goodness! What a hotspot this is. How many trains run here per day?
great video, like
Thank you!
Those SW1000s seem to have a vertical stacked set of marker lights on the back edge of the cab side wall, on both sides, you can just see them sticking out. Do you know what they are for? Are the color coded for something? You can just see in the last clip there just one of them lit up green.
Good stuff. It's hard to see good mill footage. Have you ever found a way to get footage of the Gary Ry. down by USS?
@@patkramer5372 It was a spin off out of the CN purchase of EJ&E. They kept a little section down there and named it the Gary Ry., and use some ex EJE units.
One of the more realistic model railroads
Great vantage point.
Great sounds too 👍
very busy track
Put 40 years In there👍
I love this🤓
Glad you enjoyed it!
This place is busier than a one legged pole dancer!!,,,,
Outstanding Everything Railroading happens In Chicago!
Can you tell me the precise location of where you took these shots? I've been to the area a gazillion times but I can't find a good safe place to railfan.
Where Cline Ave/912 exits to Michigan Ave. There is a pedestrian bridge that goes over the tracks.
@@SkyhawkACE123 Is this considered a safe place to railfan?
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CP crew: *Yeah, we are definitely lost..*
Unpaid Intern I actually see CP and CN often out here in the Midwest. They are pretty common.
CN a lot yes. They have an HQ in Homewood. CP has a yard in Bensenville.
Lol 😂
Cp has a line running through South Bend IN and frequently run trains on NS lines to reach there other tracks across the midwest.
great video
Randall Funk Thank you!
The steel company unit was on tracks laid by a model railroader.
It's quite the impressive maze of tracks!
It's a remote controlled unit so basically a standard gauge model train.
Is there a particular reason why they put an open hopper car in between each iron torpedo car? I just was curious if it was for safety, or some other practical reason. Thank you.
Weight distribution is a huge reason, those bottle cars are significantly heavier than an average freight car, even a locomotive
do the modern gensets do good in winter Canadian Pacific tryed thenm but didnt think they did very well in the cold climite
Just a cool video. Any video by BP ,USX Gary ,and the Calumet Ind District.
8:41 Watch for ICF on bridges. Yea, there’s this terrible thing called icf which is worse than ice and grows on bridges.
I thought for a second what the hell is icf.
👏👏👏
is there a reason why there are empty flat bed cars between the bottle cars?
Spread out the weight and add some brakes.
Tips for good days/times to catch mill jobs?
Week days seem to be better. But it's been slow for several months.
(@ 24:36) I guess the guy in the switcher got bored, or decided he'd parked the flatcars on the wrong siding (or more likely, his boss told him, "You f***ing idiot, I told you those cars go on track 2!! Now go back and do it right, or you're fired!") :)
This place is very busy.
14:25 What was he attempting to tell you guys?
So there is a mystery over the oddly shaped cars (not shown here, except in the intro frame). So I ask.. what is this about? A disclaimer? Nothing to see here? Answere. You know which ones I am talking about.
Clearly you didn't watch the video very long, because the video thumbnail occurs around the 10:27 mark. They are hot metal "bottle cars", they store hot molten liquid steel basically.
@@SkyhawkACE123 I did, along with my wife. Sorry I missed it. My apologies. So..why do they ship molten metals? I'm 69 years old by the way.
@@pilot3016 this is an inter-plant operation. They move raw products around the steel mill.
@@SkyhawkACE123 interesting. Seems like I have seen some footage of these cars moving through small towns. No conspiracy theory here..just seems odd. I have been to the mitsubishi factory in Miihara Japan (it has a foundry and manufactures offset printing presses)...and this just seems ..odd.
@@pilot3016 Actually, the molten pig iron is shipped over to another steel mill in Riverdale, Illinois where it is put into a BOP (Basic Oxygen Process) furnace to reduce and refine its carbon content.
What do the row of lights on the sides of the end cab switchers indicate?
The locomotives working the mills are remote control. Green means under power, red means stopping.
@@SkyhawkACE123 thank you
What trains are those? 6:58
Is that... UNION PACIFIC at 0:27?!
That bridge you're on is for public use right? i want to make a trip out there
Yes
hasta ahora el transporte mas economico que hay es por tren
É verdade. Econômico e seguro também.
Is that an SW1001?
Shame that Dash 8 wasn't leading the Amtrak that would have been epic.
i just saw UP!
slabs coming from west side to east side for 80 hot strip
How far from inland steel was this
This is Inland steel
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alittle to fast for the yard
I heard from a guy the IHB is just the worst....
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Horrible horrible company.
Jay Vasquez why?
Worked there 40 years, thank you b mother inland