Probably something to do with the finish and weathering, I'd guess.
Nice find.
Same in my area. Lukens Steel in Coatesville, PA was an American owned company. Now its Arcelor Mital from Luxembourg.
Master coils hauled in gondola's and coil cars with no lids are hot rolled coils that are destined for further processing like annealing or pickling. Don't matter if they get a coating of rust on them because the oxide will be removed with further processing. The cars with lids (and the tower in the center of each lid) is so the crane operator at the facility they wind up at, can use a C hook to remove the lid before the coils are unloaded and those covered coils are most likely cold rolled or galvanized or HRPO coils (Hot rolled Pickled and Oiled).
Didn't know they had anything in Europe.
No, but my point stands, a foreign (Luxembourg) owned steel mill in the US is not as American as an American owned steel mill in the US.
It's nothing to do with my moderation hat. It's an observation that the never ending theme about how bad things are in America that starts to drag down a lot of threads. Speaking for myself and not assuming anyone elses' thoughts on the matter, I'd like to see this thread stay open instead of digressing into yet another discussion about who's fault the state of the country is in. Once that discussion starts, it's just a matter of time before someone posts political content, it gets out of control, and poof.
We used to have "the steel train" that came through South Bend every afternoon around 4:00pm. It was usually only 50ish cars long, one engine, and a mix of steel cars, covered, not covered, no flat cars, and about 1/4 of the cars were full of scrap metal. Always heading west to east. It was on the Conrail tracks, now Norfolk and Southern.
