Steel Mill Trains inside Indiana Harbor and Gary Works

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On January 8th, 2023, I visited two steel mills in Northwest Indiana. First I stopped by the Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor plant (former Inland Steel). Right away there was a SW1001 dropping off some torpedo cars at the small yard west of the Indiana Harbor Canal. Soon after, a slug set with a SW1500 picked up the cars and brought them to another facility in the plant (I assume to be loaded).
I then moved onto Gary Works where I caught a couple Gary Railway SW1200s moving around the mill. One was paired with a slug and was loading some torpedo cars that I caught departing the loader. Another interesting piece of a equipment I spotted was some sort of cart that unloaded iron ore next to one of the main blast furnaces. If anyone has any info on it, I'd be curious to know!
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@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Quick correction: The mill at the beginning of video is actually former LTV/ISG, not Inland.

@billscott356 Год назад

And before that, Youngtown Sheet and Tube. Today the former Inland (where I worked) and YST are a combined facility.

@z00h Год назад

another correction, it's harbour not harbor.

@danielthoman7324 Год назад

@@z00h I'm from that area. It's Indiana harbor.

@z00h Год назад

@@danielthoman7324 so it's a "harbour" with a spelling mistake, got it.

@ThisIS_Insane Год назад

@@z00h Only if you're from Great Britain, or Australia...

@ingo_8628 Год назад

No stupid music, just the enviromental sound, i like it.

@vietnammodeling Год назад

For a moment I thought this was an amazingly well built model railroad.

@hoosierhobbies Год назад

This is without a doubt the best steel mill video that I have ever seen!

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed!

@LeoStarrenburg Год назад

Same here, and a first for the loaded torpedo cars 👍

@MervynPartin Год назад

Absolutely 👍

@BossSpringsteen69 Год назад

Never had any inspirations to model a steel mill until after watching this video.

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Makes me want to as well!

@Ben-tw7lf Год назад

Geez, this is the most realistic layout I've ever seen. Moving water and everything!

@ModelingSteelinHO Год назад

Thank you Sam for filming these "off limits" industrial places. It immensely helps with modeling. Got the gears turning.

@justinmarcotte5272 Год назад

How were you able to fly inside the plant? I would have assumed it would be off limits? Keep in mind, I don’t know drone laws. Also, the audio, is that stock or recorded by the drone?

@franzbrunner499 Год назад

as you mention modeling: where can i get torpedo (8-axle) / slug cars shown here in HO? internet shows Märklin (Krupp), but 18-axle! thanks for helping

@ModelingSteelinHO Год назад

@@franzbrunner499 Franz. Look up "State Tool & Die" in USA . This company makes a version of eight axle torpedo cars in HO. Great kit that can be easily super detailed .

@heybeerdan1820 Год назад

Exceptional video, Sam! Drone work is perfect. Plenty of inspiration here for modelers, I'd say. Well done.

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Thank you! I’d love to model a mill like this some day.

@Nethanel773 Год назад

This vast iron and steelworks complex makes this place look so otherworldly. I like you filmed this. Thanks for putting this up.

@Nethanel773 Год назад

13:10 - 14:30 brings to mind scenes from the movie, Koyaanisqatsi. Actually, a few of the zoom, pan, and flyover shots bring that movie to mind.

@brucybabyy7355 Год назад

Oh man the size and scope of it is mind-boggling fantastic filming love those bottle cars at the end

@stumpfarm3714 Год назад

This is the coolest model railroad I’ve ever seen.

@jasondelaney6849 Год назад

It's a real railroad, not a model railroad

@nigelmorse3909 7 месяцев назад

@@jasondelaney6849Sorry if I’m stating the obvious, but I’m sure 3714 was joking

@doinitforthestreets Год назад

I've always wanted to see the inside of this plant, thanks for posting this!

@midwestrails8317 Год назад

Killer stuff! The shot of the bottles from above is my favorite.

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Thanks!

@farmerdave7965 Год назад

As a former steel mill hot end worker, I approve of this video.

@josephcrowshaw950 Год назад

Fascinating! The drone view gives a better idea of how sprawling this mill is.

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Thanks! Drones really let you capture scenes that you’d otherwise never see.

@andrewpalm2103 Год назад

Wow, just wow! Great footage. It's nice to see end-cab switchers still working hard. In the 60's I worked four summers at US Steel Gary Sheet and Tin, so this brings back some memories. I travelled past the Gary Works many times by auto and the CSS&SB, but had no idea how extensive they were. And in the 50's my family would occassinally drive through Hammond, first on US20 and later on the new Toll Road. I remember trying to hold my breath as the smell was so bad. I can even vaguely remember PRR sharknose diesels parked on yard tracks near US20, too.

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

I’m glad the video brought back good memories. It’s great to see the industry still going *somewhat* strong in Gary, despite mills closing down all the time this day and age.

@ThisIS_Insane Год назад

@@SamLovesTrains When they pulled out, Gary lost over 160,000 residents. Now there's barely 70,000 living there. USS built that town and the mill to supply jobs, but then just said, "Hey, we changed our plans, you're all on your own."

@user-yd9bj3bs8g Год назад

Memories of Sheffield 45 years ago. River Don Works. Plus secondments to my native South Wales. Drove molten iron trains as part of my duties.

@jessewalker9241 Год назад

Worked a decade field and shop repair on the US Steel locomotive and rail cranes fleet on that and the other bop shop and furnace high lines until it was handed over to Gary Railway. It was great working in the locomotive shop that was built in 1906 and being part of that history.

@abloogywoogywoo Год назад

They used to have high lines in Port Talbot Steelworks many years ago too, much of it is still visible in spite of landscaping caused by new road development.

@stevenreay7833 Год назад

I worked on sites such as this on Teesside and Sheffield in the 80's in England. Much much smaller, and that includes the trains but processes all look so familiar. Superb photography, the sound is especially good. I'm so glad I found this and I'm looking forward to watching your other work. Many thanks

@EagleCreekRailRoad Год назад

This is just awesome. Thanks for sharing.

@allenzackery1639 Год назад

I was glued to the set ! Very interesting !!!

@mattberg916 Год назад

The furnaces at USS Gary are 4,6,8 and 14. The ore shuttle gets loaded by the ore bridge (clamshell on the overhead) and dumps into bins below the highline. The area below the highline is called the stock house and runs the full length of the furnace row, it's all bins for coke, limestone, ore and sinter, shakers and conveyors. The materials are loaded by conveyor into the skip tubs that climb the skip incline to the charge deck of the furnace. I worked for the EJ&E for a bit and then was back at USS as a carpenter building scaffold. I've literally been inside, on top of and underneath those blast furnaces and every nook and cranny in between. Not to mention just about every other place in the mill from the dunes out on the far east end of the property to the basements of the coil houses on the far west. Fascinating place to be, kinda crappy to work in. You've made some excellent video!

@AndreiTupolev Год назад

What a fantastic view! It's obviously much reduced in extent, but it still gives the impression of an entire industrial city

@Bob.W. Год назад

Great shots of those loaded torpedo cars

@plunkervillerr1529 Год назад

The most realistic layout I`ve ever seen.

@RHJ3 Год назад

Hot metal cars from above, what a treat, fantastic! Thank You.

@arnomrnym6329 Год назад

cool footage. 👍🏾😎 Thx. It's a pity that much of the railroad infrastructure has been dismantled, but you can still see how it was in the golden days.

@Steven_Williams Год назад

This is awesome! Nice to see what's on the other side of the tracks when I railfan.

@elsdp-4560 Год назад

Thank you for sharing.👍

@davidballoid2118 Год назад

Awesome, I could watch this operation for hours. I really like steel-mill trains and watching the Larry Cars on the High Line.

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

I’m glad you like it! I hope to go back for more footage soon. I’d like to get some shots of the lake freighters unloading at the mills.

@sanddabz5635 Год назад

What's a Larry Car?

@libertyvilleguy2903 Год назад

Excellent footage. Thank you.

@jonathanblair5255 Год назад

Totally awesome!!!

@ajwawrzyniak Год назад

Fascinating Video! Great drone work!

@toomanyhobbies2011 Год назад

Awesome! Thank you.

@victormioduszewski4729 Год назад

Great video....Just the size and scope of these plants is amazing....To think of all the products that are made with steel from these plants and are in yesterday's and todays households.....

@user-om3yy1ux2f Год назад

Awesome video! Thanks a lot!

@AlbertaBoundRailfanning Год назад

Very nice coverage! Those are quite the fascinsting operations and facilities there! Love the drone work for areas like this, nicely done!

@johnpoulson384 Год назад

Wow. Very well done.

@onenickthomas 25 дней назад

Amazing!

@cjbeyer8340 Год назад

Wow, what a wonderful video of Indiana Harbor & Gary Steel Mill/ railroad! So impressive, thanks for sharing & be safe making these videos!😊

@davidb8872 Год назад

Great work

@sernajrlouis Год назад

Awesome 👍

@terry7340 Год назад

Fresh from college I worked at Inland Steel in 1966/7 until the draft board caught up with me. A huge blizzard shut everything down that winter. I think they even banked the blast furnaces.

@LibertyRailfan Год назад

Very cool video, always great from the bird's eye view, scenes you wouldn't have been able to get otherwise..

@globetrav00 Год назад

Supper cool video! I've always wanted to see inside Gary Works and now I have. Thank you!!

@HavelockYard Год назад

Awesome work! Love those molten steel shots from above!

@remylopez4821 Год назад

Fascinating video I can only imagine what that area was like during world war two production years, but I found amazing other than that locomotives and other vehicles driving about you never saw anybody walking from building to building or working outdoors on anything I would love to visit a place like that too bad it’s off-limits for nerds like me

@RailFanRob Год назад

Wow love this industrial footage. Awesome video man thanks for sharing!!!

@Starsnu1 Год назад

WOW, what a great view of those steel mills in Gary, IN. I've driven by them many times and rode by them at least 10 times on The Lakeshore Limited. I would love to see more of this. Great Work

@eaglesfly5236 Год назад

Awesome footage

@korhing1066 Год назад

Excellent Drone work and content Thank you

@Harveycartoonlvr11 Год назад

OH, YEAH! Without a doubt, that is the Cleveland Cliffs Steel Plant in East Chicago, when I saw it crossing the Indiana Harbor Canal, I KNEW it was right off the bat! I do miss Inland Steel/Acerlor Mittal because AT LEAST they'd let you photograph Trains in their primarily UNUSED PARKING LOT at C.P. 502, and now you can't because security will only chase you away now. Love that NS Intermodal Crossing the Canal by "HICK" Tower.

@strobx1 Год назад

There's the Ped Bridge that the State of Indiana owns that you can video from

@coolruehle Год назад

WOW! This is THE BEST! Give me many ideas for ground cover, roads, etc.

@Vzw-dj9rf Год назад

Wow, very cool to see how big, complex and interesting these plants are. Fascinating track dump machine, starting about 13:12.

@lawnmowerdude Год назад

Man that layout is very detailed!

@jserkiz06 Год назад

SamLovesTrains, your videos make me stand tall with American pride! The massive size scale, the complexity, the intellectual genius of making this work, I am beyond words. THANK YOU for your superb video product.

@MervynPartin Год назад

That was excellent. Great drone filming-steady and clear. I've always found steel making fascinating, with so much going on throughout the plants. In the past, I was lucky enough to visit a couple of now closed steel mills- a school visit to Guest Keen Iron & Steel in Cardiff, Wales and also when unloading a cargo of Canadian iron ore to Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point, Baltimore MD. The railroad operations were extensive, handling coal, coke, iron ore, molten iron, slag and of course the finished product-steel. Your video brought back memories.

@captainhuggyface6731 Год назад

i dont know why, but i have found a great fondness for this locomotive and its harbour, thanks for the video

@tomgiorgini9154 Год назад

nice video, I did some work at the coke ovens in buffalo in 94 used to spend hours watching the coal trains being dumped by the rotary dumper, and the quench car gathering up the coke and going thru the quencher. wish I would have took some video, I had to dig for a half hour in the morning then come back in the afternoon to backfill for about a half hour the rest of the day I would drive my tlb around and watch the action, best job I ever had

@blauer2551 Год назад

I was delivering some stuff in that plant when the train went by and I could see the molten interior, I was thrilled like a little kid

@LSVIDEOSFIRE Год назад

all I can say is that this is an incredible video. GREAT WORK!!!

@gp3829 Год назад

I really enjoyed your video. It reminded me of the former Steelworks at Redcar in Cleveland, North Yorkshire, UK - which is now unfortunately closed. Similar Switchers and Bottle-cars (Torpedo cars) semi-decrepit Buildings, redundant gear. It had same fascinating Industrial Archeology about it as well as its setting - being surrounded by other Industries. The river Tees here was known as 'Steel River' with all the Iron-ore that was mined in the nearby Cleveland Hills. Thanks for posting.

@DavidWilson-hh2gn Год назад

I used to be involved with the Lackenby - Workington steel trains when I was on the Signalling,the steel was used for manufacturing railway track at Workington.

@gp3829 Год назад

@@DavidWilson-hh2gn Love Teesside. Miss it like anything.

@SimpleMechanic931 Год назад

I love these videos because, having been born after the heyday of steel making, I’ve really only ever seen steel mills once they’ve been bankrupted and closed. So it’s very nice to see a real blast furnaces being charged by working skip cars and all the little details of a functioning mill, though the first one in this video doesn’t look to different from what I’m used to haha

@jiml9692 Год назад

I use to work there years ago. Believe it or not but that train is remote controled. One man operation. Great video.

@ThisIS_Insane Год назад

There was the switchman, and I saw the safety vest of another man sitting in the cab of that engine.

@jiml9692 Год назад

If you look on the side of the engine it says remote controlled. And i worked there back in the mid 90s.

@ThisIS_Insane Год назад

@@jiml9692 It was a bit hard to see those huge letters on the side. Nevertheless, I know what can be seen in that Cab.

@McRocket Год назад

Great filming job. ☮

@flynlr Год назад

I have stared at this mill and integrated mills all over the world via google earth. this video really shows the details I was missing looking at them this way. recently tried street views around this mill to no avail. couldn't see much of anything that way. thanks so much for this. .

@FireandFrostHVAC Год назад

This is one of the most highly detailed model railroads that I have ever seen in my life… 😂😂😂

@FastLaneLyfe Год назад

The best train diorama on YT!!

@timkis64 Год назад

as a truck driver i've delivered turnings to a few steel plants.their sprawling acreage allways amazed me.

@dealerovski82 Год назад

wow it loos so real

@maidsandmuses Год назад

Awesome! A rolling lift trunnion (one specific type of bascule bridge) at 3:50. I love those!

@FrogandFlangeVideo Год назад

Fabulous aerial footage !! Steel mill modelers pay attention. lol. Loved seeing that rather large transfer car on the highline. That site is just chaulk full of industrial gear. James.

@thomassalerno5203 Год назад

Incredible cool video of hot metal transport & service Excellent Impressive Videography !

@milepost41railfanproductio24 Год назад

Great video Sam

@raztaz826 Год назад

Bleak looking landscape, but also fascinating

@centraliowarailproductions2810 Год назад

Nice video!

@critical_always Год назад

Fantastic camera work. I am a total random, not even into trains or modelling but this was a pleasure to watch. Watching on a 65" screen and listening on quality studio speakers. The sound is very good too.

@unpasaro Год назад

WOW !!! what a fantastic video, excellent filming. I live in a small country and it is hard for me to assimilate seeing industries of such size, impressive , congratulations

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@eduardodeazevedoesilva6833 Год назад

Definitely, THIS really is the Best Steel Factory Video I've ever seen.. It's a Serious and Huge Siderurgic Complex, with a Rich Distribution of Railway net. The train has access of almost all Technical departments of the Complex. Since l am a Serious Railway Fan, l believe everyone will understand when l say: ". . . This Industrial Complex is like a Paradise!!! We also can see liquid Steel inside those Special Steel transport. Serious Congratulations for this Vídeo Producer.

@tomroise9426 Год назад

Tremendous video thank you for sharing. Definitely one of the best industrial videos of all time. And in 17 minutes you showed very little of these massive industries. Will be looking for more of these types of videos! great job.

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Thank you! I just posted some more footage of Gary Works the other day.

@blatendcrude7570 Год назад

What a dream to watch........

@xray606 Год назад

Very nice. I spotted the old EJE Lake Terminal unit in Gary. I could definitely watch more of that. There's been very little shown of Gary over the years.

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Thanks! I plan on heading back for more soon!

@classifiedfive4377 Год назад

Ex Ej&e 460 can be captured

@ThePaulv12 Год назад

I enjoyed that. Great stuff. 2 slugs in revenue service in 17 mins - wow!

@kleetus92 Год назад

6:45 I like how the gates go up when the train comes through!

@davehughesfarm7983 Год назад

Nice

@mikereed174 Год назад

Wow, talk about a great industrial video for getting model railroad ideas. Awesome track planning idea and buildings. This would make a great Point to Point Switcher HO Scale Shelf ModelRailroad.

@__Dude_ Год назад

The sheer size and state of decay makes it look frighteningly inhuman. Gives me the shivers.

@ingomoba1001 Год назад

Nice Video🤩👍. Like the Steelcompany Salzgitter AG/ Niedersachsen in Westgermany.

@craigpennington1251 Год назад

Delivered & picked up out of there a lot over the years when flatbed trucking. That place is enormous. It sure isn't what it once was. Pretty much a ghost town now.

@johnvrabec9747 Год назад

I covered one of our routes that delivered Hinckley & Schmitt bottled water to Gary Works. Very cool to be in there, but I was lost all day there lol so freaking huge.

@Travis-kw3mo Год назад

Such a cool looking old industrial site. Probably polluted as hell though

@sunglassesron9464 Год назад

That looks a big site! We used to have industry like this in Britain until we got sold down the river...

@davebrock6618 Год назад

Loved the video,also great to see that drag of loaded coal cars heading through the site,probably on their way to West Olive Michigan

@ThisIS_Insane Год назад

Or the Bailly Power plant to the East, near Burns Harbor...

@marvwatkins7029 Год назад

I use to see the "bottle trains" go past Dolton Tower late at night. Their glow was fascinating to watch.

@thomassalerno5203 Год назад

Great videography on Cliffs CP 103 fabulous posts ….subscribed to you you tube channel Bottle Cars flats …nice very nice

@eugenenewton1909 Год назад

These are great…. You wanted to follow that switcher through the barn at 4:28. You thought about it

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

Haha! Maybe if I’m feeling brave some day. Would be game over if it went down anywhere inside that plant.

@B1221C Год назад

And here is where the Terminator was born.

@tomp8871 8 месяцев назад

Once you put that drone up, I have one thing to say. WOW, look at this place....hUUUGe

@thomashynes4042 Год назад

At first I thought that this was the BEST looking HO Model Railroad I had ever seen ...the detail was amazing, but then the people walking around LOL

@jonmacgill9244 Год назад

The car at about the 13:25 mark is a ore transfer car, material transfer car. Takes iron ore (taconite) from the ore bridge crane and dumps it into the bins under the high line. Underneath those bins is a scale car that the bins dump into. Scale car weights the burden and then dumps it into a Larry car that will take it to the top of the blast furnace and dump it in. Simple explanation. Great video. Do more

@montgomeryrail Год назад

Seeing the exFairfield Southern SW1500 at the end take me back. That was either #352 or 351

@SamLovesTrains Год назад

I was wondering what railroad that unit was from. I figured it was from another steel mill railroad. I assume the slug that was paired with the SW1200 at the end of the video would also be ex-Fairfield Southern as well.

@montgomeryrail Год назад

@@SamLovesTrains honestly I am not sure I'd need to see it closer if it is yellow with a red stripe then yeah it's exfs/bsrr the 351 and 352 are exBSRR 351&352 before that they were BLE

@AndreiTupolev Год назад

Yes, I think the idea is with that device at13:25, ore is loaded into the hoppers and then it's discharged onto conveyors below where it's required