Morning Steel Mill Trains at U.S. Steel Gary Works
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- On May 27th, 2023, I spent a morning with my drone at U.S. Steel Gary Works in Gary, Indiana and saw plenty of action in the steel mill. The trains inside were pulled by various SW1200s and SW1500s in Gary Railway, Fairfield Southern, Detroit Connecting, and of course U.S. Steel paint schemes. I was fortunate enough to witness some interesting operations take place, including a switcher shoving a huge ladle into the #1 BOP and a coke train being brought up onto the high line with three units. I also ventured over the decommissioned coke plant where a line of old U.S. Steel switchers and center-cabs were being stored. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this action packed look at a steel mill rarely seen on video!
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I work here all the time and it's crazy to see the whole place from overhead
A different perspective, like being on the roof of ones house
What goes on inside the 1bop building? It’s MASSIVE
@@stevekalis139a lot of things but they are LOUD! Those tall structures are I beleave blast furnaces and are responsible for much of the massive drone. I live near a now shuttered steel plant that only closed a few months ago and it could be herd for miles, often permeating the industrial suburb where I live with it's deep, oscillating, quivering droning noise that could be felt almost as much as heard, sometimes even with the windows shut and earplugs in...
@@stevekalis139that’s where they make steel from scrap and molten iron from the blast furnaces
As a steel mill modeler, these vids are a treasure for layout ideas and as a steel mill geek, they are great to just sit and watch over and over. Too bad drones didn't exist back in the days of Bessemer converters...no THAT would have been something!
I always notice my videos posted in steel mill modeling groups online. I’m glad that I can help people out! It’d be neat to model a steel mill like this someday.
You would need a 2-acre train room to do this justice. WOW.
I worked at the last fully integrated steel mill west of the Mississippi River. I approve of this video.
Which one was that? They are really loud! I Curently live a few miles from a recently closed steel finishing plant that used to be an integrated mill. Even with just the two large annealing furnaces at that plant I could often hear them from miles away! A deep, oscillating quevering drone permeated the industrial suburb where I live and as I used to not know what it was, I was bothered and somewhat spooked by the sound. Now I actually miss it! I used to live near a (now shut) integrated mini mill that made steel rods from scrap steel in Emeryville, CA. Nothing like this full sized mill though. But you could often hear the furnace a fairly long ways off including from my home across town, especially at night. The old mill site is now a large lifestyle center shopping mall!
Thanks for sharing the great drone footage. Over the steel company.
These are awesome views! Thank you for taking the time to do it!
Thank you! It’s always fun taking the drone out for a spin!
This is the best steel mill video I’ve ever seen. Great job!
Thank you!
Amazing video.
So cool!
A big Thumbs Up would be Greatly Appreciated on these videos Please, he's spent a lot of time on them.👍
What an incredible facility
Totaly awesome
Love this. I really don't know how you only have 8400 subscribers? Should be a lot more!
Fantastic, greetings from Germany.
Fantastic footage, loved it👍🇺🇸
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
Love these kind of videos thanks alot from GLOUCESTER, Ma 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Awesome vid 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃👍
Very nice -- thanks for posting this. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if someone familiar with the mill could have helped you add captions so that we'd know what we were looking at. I could identify the blast furnaces but that was about it.
The scale, the quality of video, and the fact that plant security was not shooting at you, AMAZING!!!!!
@@walts-v4m Thank you!
Very awesome video.
Excellent. That cask car move was awesome. Think I've only seen one photo of that before. And you even caught J power on a LFL train. Can't do better than that.
Thank you! I’m glad I was able to capture some unique and rare stuff. The J units will pull up to that spot every once and while. They usually trail on the CN remote control jobs at Kirk Yard.
When you see this facility from the air the size of it comes into perspective. This place boggles the imagination. Great job Sam!
Thank you expose gary work for long time watch this.i read book uss history but this is best.thank you calgary alberta canada
How did they manage to take one of the most beautiful spots on this lake and make it into this
This is a BLUE RIBBON Video
At the 4 minute mark, an engine is transporting a ladle via a yellow framed railroad car.
Train is called the "Yellow Bird."
The Yellow Bird has the right of way.
Fly over Desulf now. Looks different
Sadly not many steel mills exists these days and that includes the abundance of aluminum smelters we had here in WA.
What railway was switching at the beginning? That car at 4:20 was the most unique car I've seen in a long time
That’s one of U.S. Steel’s own switchers. They haul those interesting ladle cars around the BOP shop.
@@SamLovesTrains At the beginning of the video some Geeps were switching out on the main or lead. We’re some of those CP or CN?
@@HavelockYard That was one of the CN remote yard jobs
We refer to the large ladle trains as the yellow bird.
@@HannahHelpy haha that's awesome!
Soon to be Nippon Steel.
Hi there, what is that long pipe for??
dont burn bridges. just loosen the bolts a little bit every day.
I thought those were nukes for a second
Is the fine powder covering everything coke ash?
Flakes of Kish metal or graphite flakes are produced from the molten Iron which is approx. 4.5% Carbon
CSX brings coal from Virginia?
When we shipped these jobs overseas. We lost our identity as a powerful nation. Just look at our young men weak..
All those empty parking lots.
Everything is so dirty, rusty and dusty, love it.
Me too!
This place is STILL in operation ~ it is NOT CLOSED ❗
I work at US Steel Clairton works, Coke battery's we go 13-14 19-20 B and C battery's. Mill is pretty old but were hoping with new ownership we can start to revamp the mill
I worked college summers in the 30" Hot Strip Dept. at USS Gary Sheet & Tin in the mid-60's. It was hot, dirty, and dangerous, but compared to the hellscape in this video, it was the proverbial walk in the park (secept maybe when cleaning out one of the slab reheating furnaces). Thanks for sharing and Cheers from Wisconsin!
Great video of these rarely seen operations. I'm shocked that there isn't a no fly zone above the mill.
Thanks! I’m surprised too. The closest no fly zone would be the Gary airport, but their zone doesn’t extend into the mill. I don’t think U.S. Steel can do anything since they don’t own the airspace. As long as the drone doesn’t go down…
@@SamLovesTrains i work there. dont get caught
It's a MARSEC area because of the slip. It is very much a no fly zone. Technically, we're not even supposed to bring our phones to work because of the cameras.
Amazing Steel Mills! Amazing Footage! Keep The Industrial Train Videos Rolling In!👍
Thanks! Soon!
The blue roofed building at the start of the video is the dispensary. This is where workers go for physicals, physical therapy, and medical attention after an accident.
Building used to be the main hospital for all of Gary, IN.
Road beyond the flag is the end of Broadway/Indiana Rte. 53.
I worked there many years,made a lot of money.Thanks for the memories.Wish it was still there in its glory for our kids and the security of our Nation.
What percentage would you say it is operating at compared to its peak? If the peak is 100%, what is it at now? And do you think it’s in any danger of going out of business or being torn down?
@@talbotd27 There were 12 blast furnaces in the 70’s to supply the BOF with pig iron to produce all of its steel for all the finishing mills on site.Pretty sure there are only two of those left,and a larger one built in the 80’s.I think they kept #8 & #10 and added #13.Steel production is probably less than half,as they have been buying cheap Chinese slabs for decades.As a result,the finished steel production is only slightly off.Don’t know if the actual figures are readily available to the public.The condition of Gary,IN is a sad remnant of those years when 20,000 more workers depended on those mills for their prosperity.The Federal Government let it all get away,and their destructive policies have since metastasized throughout our once massive manufacturing sector.
I worked in the Gary Works Coke Plant in the early ‘80’s. I’m glad you did a flyover of the place now closed unfortunately. But the coke maintenance buildings I worked in still standing. Amazing video. You did a great job filming it from birdseye view
Thank you! Someone requested I flyover there in my last video so I made sure to this time.
Great video....gives an idea how large an operation this is. Sad to see the huge parking lots empty that were once full to capacity.
Thanks! Just imagine how busy this plant must’ve been at its prime!
@@SamLovesTrains yeah, you cant tell me its cheaper to have steel made in China and shipped here. We need to bring all this back to America and give us the good paying jobs.
I think most of the job were lost to automation..
@@juliofoolio2982 Most of the jobs and technology were lost to China!
At one time US Steel Gary Works was the largest steel mill in the northern hemisphere.
7 miles long!
Great vid. That place is HUGE. Thanks for sharing. Im a follower now 😆
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for subscribing!
That is the most immersive model railroad I’ve ever seen! How do you get such realism?
It's AI😂
it is the REAL THING
I still am getting used to this drone perspective…I have a lookout over Endicott NY near where I live, and the trains going by look like a model…it’s nice to be up there when the train goes by.
Dunno about you but I would NOT want to drive my truck under a rail bridge that has a torpedo car full of molten iron above it.
My gosh, the size of this facility seems to dwarf the old 1100 acre Bethlehem Steel site in Buffalo (Lackawanna). UA-camr Matty Gunn shoots a lot of videos there with his drone, there’s a mix of industrial activities going on there now.
Never realized this complex was that big. The drone footage shows a unique view of everything going on from not just the trains, but the trucks, elevators going up and down, vehicle movement, and so on. What a busy place👍.
Very nice footage! Steel mill ops are always cool!
Thanks! They sure are
Nice bonus view of the Railcats ballpark. I just read an article in Trains magazine where they named the ballpark one of the best ones for railfans.
Absolutely Fantastic. Thank you for sharing this video we only have one Iron and Steel making plant in England and one in South Wales now.The large Blast furnace and BOS plant we had on Teesside in the North East of England was sadly demolished earlier this year. A darn shame.
Fascinating! It's like a real-world version of the Great Machine in the movie "Forbidden Planet"
that place isn't closed down,if they are using hot torpedo cars in there,great video
I work at USS Fairfield and recognize some former Fairfield Southern locomotives by their red "bow wave" stripe on the yellow paint. That was an adaptation of the former Birmingham Southern green and yellow scheme. Once our blast furnace and most of the rolling & finishing ceased operation in 2015 a lot of the FSRR engines and slugs were dispersed to other Transtar railroads. It looks like at least some wound up in Gary with the old name painted out.
I also worked at USS Fairfield works on the FS RR left there 2018. 24 years
This is unreal. That shot at 02:32 WOW!!
Agree. You can tell that the plant is also extremely loud from this video. I live near a now shuttered mill and you can often hear them from miles away, -a deep oscillating quevering metallic drone! I could hear that sound even with earplugs in and windows closed at night and it used ro give me chills sometimes before I knew what it was... Now that it's gone I actually kind of miss that sound even though it used to bother me!
Great stuff! You have to love heavy industry+ railroads!!😅
Certainly!
Great job, Sam. Thank you very much for sharing these videos.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!
Nice view of the Works!
Would be even nicer to see father in along the lake shore of the Works, to see if there's any rail action or movement from the shipping loads.
Appreciate your work, I know it's not easy getting this kind of stuff.
Fantastic content! Thank You!
Keep it up....Sam!
what a brilliant video! thank you very much, Sam -i would never have the chance to see a steel mill that close not to think of going inside to see the process of steelmaking
WOW ... What a cool video!!! 😳
This is a really massive industry! I loved watching your video, pretty good footage ;)
Awesome video ! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great video! What's always impressive to me about these steel mill videos without music is the loud ROUR that comes from the mills and permeates the area nearby! I live near and once lived near another now shut down steel plant, and you could hear them from miles away! Can be a very disturbing sound to many but I now miss hearing and feeling that deep, oscillating quivering drone at night and sometimes during the day, from the two massive furnaces of the steel mill several miles away...
Awesome video!! I love it.
This is amazing. Thank you 🙏
Those molten cars are truly hell on wheels!
I loved seeing this place in person last year. Passed by on the Capitol Limited and the sights were definitely something to behold
Man I so love these videos that include our remaining steel mills here in the USA!!! Please record more of this type of footage. Thanks so much for sharing this awesome industrial footage with us!!!
Thanks! I’ll try to head back soon. Steel mills are some of my favorite places to film!
It's massive big and dirty I love this place 😮❤❤
Remarkable video! Outstanding work!
Thanks!
Hey, Sam. I'm working on a UA-cam video which includes a history portion about Gary's steel industry. Was wondering if I could use a couple clips from this video with full credit to you and your page. No pressure, just love the clips! Thanks
Go right ahead! I’ve seen some of your urbex videos and really enjoy what you do! I’ll be watching for the video. Thanks
@@SamLovesTrains Appreciate it! I followed you on Instagram and can let you know when it drops
Another awesome production👌🏻 I do have a question though, do you know or are you able to see where the torpedo wagons are emptied??
I'd like to see that myself!
That I’m not sure of. I’d assume they go back towards to lakefront into one of the mill buildings, but I’m afraid of losing drone connection if I go that far.
The toepedo ladles (or Treadwell cars as called here in Australia) transfer the molten Iron through to the BOS steelmaking shop. The Iron can be treaded on the way (if need be) at a deSulphurisation plant. The Iron is poured from these torpedoes to a transfer ladle within the BOS shop where it is then poured into the BOS vessel after scrap steel is loaded first.
Some plants have conducted tours so you should enquire.
Nice video!
At 17:26 I can see my motorcycle
Was in central Maintenance. Did my apprenticeship here. Amazing Place…
Great video . I have always been interested in anything in the industrial arena steel tops the list . I come from the UK as you may know that it was the birth place of the Industrial Revolution and that Sheffield , Yorkshire was steel country from there many parts of the UK got involved in steel , but Sheffield was the main production base . Many cutleries we had in the UK would say Sheffield , England . I hope the steel industry in the US continues to prosper in the future shame if it did not . Same applies in the UK and anywhere else in the world that produces steel. The water seen in the video how did it get to that beautiful colour .
Thanks for the comment. It’s sad to see what the steel industry has become, but I’m glad I’m able to document what’s left. I too was surprised to see that nice of water at the mill. Maybe the sun was hitting it just right!
wow video turned this place of dread , to a very interesting operation , almost beauty
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Great vid, look at all those empty parking lots, all those lost jobs!!😮
Those parking lots were all full a long time ago. 😢
Thank you for more Gary works footage . Looks like DC 459 is working the high line now. Wonder where dc 65 is. They have T&N 1501 there too
I have yet to see the Texas & Northern unit but that would definitely be neat to see. It seems like Gary has a bunch of units from various Transtar properties.
A fantastic video, excellent filming and everything that can be seen in that great industry. The old stopped switchers are impressive, I thought I saw some Alco Century 415, is that correct? Thanks for sharing this amazing
Thank you. They aren’t C415s, but some other centercab or tonner locomotive. Not sure which kind though.
@@SamLovesTrains thanks for the information
Great catches and video
The sound is also amazing. I really like the ambience sounds
My wife's nephew retired from US Steel he often talked about how bi g it was and a ll the operations. He got a job at US Steel after he got o ut of the service and moved to Gar y Indiana from Lexington and still li vessel there.
Nice catch of the EJ&E SD38s at the ~16:30 mark.
Thanks! Those units are always switching the CN yard and often pull out past where I set up to fly.
Yeah this is amazing.
Glad you enjoyed!
Terrific steel mill footage!
Thank you!
You can see the hot lava in the torpedoes.
Yes, I noticed that right away.😮
Usually the molten slag would have been skimmed off by this stage so what you are seeing is the molten Iron metal ready to b transferred and refined into steel.
Excellent video, thanks for sharing...!
City Skylines 3? TRANSPORT FEVER 3? ))
Spent four years 1972-76 there working at the ore docks running a dozer and front end loaders. Back in those days they had the unloaders as the ore ships were not self unloaders like they are now. They used to lift my front end loader up and drop it in the ore ship hatch and I would climb down the ladder welded to the wall of the hull, climb on my front end loader
And with the bucket, dragged the ore away from the corners into the center of the hold. so the unloaders could reach down into the ship and get it with their bucket. I actually walked the deck of the Edmund Fitzgerald when it was in there several times. They used to have to back it out because it was too long to turn around at the end of the slip.
Those were the days ….
Wow, amazing stories and memories, and to actually see, and work around the Edmund Fitzgerald. Awesome!
I presume you’re talking about the Hulett unloaders. Those things were just incredible, plenty of YT vids showing them.
@@davecashman8336
Yep. There were 5 at the docks there in Gary.
Well done video
Phuntastic
I'm honestly surprised it's still operational..I used 2 drive past this twice a day going from Rockford foundry Gunite to finishing Gunite plant in Elkhart Indiana I did that for years until they closed the plant in Elkhart the Gunite in Rockford Gunite is still open they finish the product there now but we ran 26 loads a day back and forth
ps forgot to add to previous post , as seen again here drones are not just killing machines . You have a great command of the drone excellent shots .
Thank you!
Awesome job! What is the car at 4:09? Just when I thought I’d seen it all 😊
Transfer car which contains the Blast Furnace molten Iron after it has been poured from the torpedo ladles. It is entering the BOF or Basic Oxygen Furnace Shop where it is poured into the furnace after the scrap steel is chrged.
A great video how many acres does this steel mill cover ? It reminds me of a Bluescope mill here in NSW Australia at Port Kembla I enjoy your videos very much.
@Peter Marshall, plant measures 7 miles by 2 miles deep.
The big empty.
Bean counters who's only care is the bottom line and with no regard for the security of our country have systematically done this to America.
If we ever get into another shooting war, we won't stans a chance. We don't produce anything here anymore.
USA sadly no more, should have had trade imbargo, now reliant on others, slaves to profit,
The operation has been largely automated. Sure beats more people dying of cancer than necessary. Maybe take your fake nationalism elsewhere.
Nucor with its new mini-mills has taken over the steel production in the US. Most of the old blast furnace mills are outdated, the mini-mills is the way to go if you want affordable steel.