Detroit Steel Mill Trains: Ford Dearborn Works 

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Steel demand has fallen way off since 1970

Already has. A BIG bite in the ass.

Same a zug island

It’s switching over to EAF mostly

There was never 6 only 3 furnaces and only one active

Maybe you can lead the way by taking yourself out of the population, yeah?

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I work at this Blast Furnace, cool to see it in this video. The old highline was abandoned back in the 80's in favor of conveyor belts. At 0:39 you can see a large tube running diagonally to the top of the blast furnace. Inside the tube is a conveyor belt that sends the raw materials (iron ore pellets, coke, limestone and scrap metal) to the top of the furnace where it is dumped via a rotating chute. In the old days the train cars would dump on the highline into hoppers which would in turn dump into a "skip hoist" which is an open bin on diagonal rails which would rise to the top and dump. The newer process is much more precise and environmentally friendlier because it's all enclosed and the dust removed by a baghouse. A lot of dust is generated during the conveying process which used to be released to the air. The highline was constructed with old school concrete about 3 feet thick. A little further south the maintenance shops and offices are still located underneath the highline.

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​@@SamLovesTrains Great video !!! Drove past this massive plant many times as I grew up and lived in the west side of Detroit 1947 - 1986. Then moved to Florida.

I agree

It's called the "high line" used to transfer materials (ore, coke, limestone) to the blast furnace. At one point you can see the bins underneath where they'd dump.

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Thank you! I love getting those above angles to look into the torpedo cars. I went back to Gary Works the other day and got a shot of some torpedoes there with a lower camera exposure. It let me actually see the molten iron bubbling inside!

DTI brought in Parts and Supplies and took finished Mustangs out.Ford had their RR inside the Complex.

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@@SamLovesTrains I did, I did! Keep up the great work mr

Millennial and Gen Z generations work in a place like this, that's a huge laugh... Most of them are big Candy-Ass Crybabies, that don't know the difference between a hammer or a screwdriver...😂

There’s plenty of young people in the trades. If the money is right, people will work these jobs

I'd bet environmental regulations become a deal breaker faster than labor availability.

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Yes, the abandoned highline.

Yes. It all depends on where I take off from and if I can get a good connection. It was also quite windy this day which made it risky to fly farther out (flying against the wind drains my battery quickly). I’d like to go back here next time I’m in Detroit to film other areas of the complex.

Guess they're trying to tell the treehuggers that it cannot be all bad Especially if plants can actually grow on the property!

Thanks! There’s one active blast furnace here, and that’s what the Tregurtha was delivering ore pellets to. They’ll be turned into molten iron.

@@SamLovesTrains Thanks Sam, I did wonder. Cheers Ken

I record audio from the ground and then dub it with the drone video.

Thanks. Not many seem to film this mill!

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They put in a Galvaning Plant in 79 but today they make different Steel.

Lee. Paul has the bridge at the back and also is a lot bigger lmao

@@Trentm129you can also see the name at 1:06