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.
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.
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!!!👍🌟👍
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(@ 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!") :)
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 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.
