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.
That’s fine, but Why would the thread close? Who would close it? Is making the point that we don’t build railroad bridges like that anymore off-topic? Seems completely on topic (if that’s what you’re referring to)
You learn something every day. I knew the parent company was Indian but I didn't know there was a Mr. Mittal. Shrewd dude.
There were several around here as well. The only one left is the South Shore. One of our kids took it to Chicago a few weeks ago, for that matter. It used to run down the center of the street here. Still does in Michigan City, IN.
If memory serves me correctly, don't the South Shore rails pass right in front of the old US Steel now Mittal plant? Does it terminate right in downtown Chicago?
I don't think it's an old US Steel plant. I think it's the old Inland Steel plant in East Chicago that was acquired by Ispat International. Ispat International somehow merged with Mittal.
It is amazing isn't it. Rail is still and always will be the least expensive mode of transportation. The issue is, there isn't a rail siding at every Walmart...lol