Weirton Steel
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- Опубликовано: 16 апр 2013
- Weirton Steel rail operations as seen in April 1989. The majority of their Alco switcher fleet had been replaced by ex-P&LE SW1500s but a few S-2s were still in service on the hot metal trains hauling molten iron from the blast furnaces to the B.O.F. Alcos were also in use on the slag trains. Ore trains from Cleveland are shown arriving and departing behind CR GP38s. A video feast with as many as 4 movements in the same frame at one time.
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Thanks for the memories, at least somebody filmed. Nobody won, we all lost
It was these trains alone in my childhood that helped create my love for trains later in life. I miss this part of Weirton.
I could sit and watch this all day. That's one hustling S-2 and the SW-1500's are getting a good workout as well. Cheers from eastern TN
WOW! Great memories! I worked for Norfolk Southern out of their terminal in Mingo Jct from 2001 to 2004 and delivered many trains of ore, (taconite), to Weirton Steel. It was cool to see their operations from inside the works and this video brings it all back. Thanks!
This layout looks so real ! , Gotta love trains . P&LE was my favorite railroad !
It's not radio controlled stuff, it is real!
The audio on this is surprisingly good. What a find
Wow! The dirt, fumes, sights and sounds of steel mill railroading are wonderfully gathered together in this video. Thanks for sharing!
smelled like rotten eggs and even worse in follansbee where they made the coke - can't forget the raining graphite and orange plumes of smoke.
@@infomercialwars Yep, I too experienced that smell when driving past coke ovens in Granite City, IL, Erie, PA and Indianapolis, IN.
@@WAL_DC-6B I've been gone for a while but I was there before this vid was taken for a wedding and it was amazing how much cleaner the town is with most of the mill inoperational. The downside is the economic problems it caused but that's a problem for that entire region though not just Weirton
Wow! 3 8200 series CR GP38-2's on a loaded Ore drag!! Sweet!
I model the IHB and this is just a great video. Tons of modeling ideas, thank you for posting it.
Yep, black grime, more black grime. Black soot, a pinch of grey.
Man oh man, if you were workin on the ground on that job you REALLY had to watch yourself with all the different moves going on! Great video!
Man from the standpoint of an industrial train lover, it just does not get any better than this video
Thanks for the memories, spent over 32yrs there.
Any HEALTH issues as a CONSEQUENCE? Just curious.
Such a wonderful glimpse of history. Those boys really ran hard!
What a great old video. Those were great times in the Upper Ohio Valley. When America made the BEST STEEL in the WORLD.
Best steel based on what objective measurement? After WWII much of the world's industry was destroyed. After WE built it back up to a degree, worldwide competition was eventually created.
Best steel ? Based on what research ? How about German, British, Australian and Japanese steel, all high quality by any objective measure.
Why do you think the USA is buying steel made in Austria (Voestalpine)? Yes, you heard right! There is no steelworks in the USA that can produce so-called higher-strength steel, as required by the automotive industry ... Voestalpine is not only the world market and technology leader here, but also in the field of track construction you will find the Voestalpine brand in many places in the USA bump ... Well, the small country that looks like a fish in the heart of Europe can really make you fear that the American steel industry has lagged behind by decades ...
Best Steel is German Steel. The Hardest, the Strongest, simply Krupp-Steel!
That was a busy place! How can 4 ppl possibly give this a thumbs down?
I have returned to say that I am glad this was recorded to document history
ONe of the most action-packed train videos I have ever seen. This is great. I grew up in western PA and ths is what it used to look like at Allegheny Ludlum Steel, before they remodeled the mill.
Used to work at River Don. Works Sheffield South Yorkshire as well as temporary assignments in other UK locations. Most are gone. Used to drive rhe internal trains as well as my main technical duties. So many memories!
you brought back so many memories,work there hauling still for over 15 years till they closed,who knew that a hobby would bring back the glory days..thank you and great job....old river rat!
Wow...as a person who loves trains, I get to see the actions of the very material that makes everything happen, including that' which is hauling it much respect!
excellent - so sad that the mill has been closed down
4 simultaneous moves. That’s too neat. Can’t say that I remember seeing photos of those small PC ore gons either.
Would really like to hear the explosion when the hot slag hits a puddle of water in the slag pit. And see the hot slag shoot in the sky when it makes contact with water, especially at night. It's quite a spectacular sight. Fireworks at the steel mill.
Very interesting historical filming production, thank you.
Hard works from devoted employees, this was a good past.
Weirton used to have a plant on the IHB at or near 127th St. that my former father-in-law worked at. I went by it many times as a loco engineer for the CNW/UP during my 40 year career.
My grandfather Louis Truax spent over 40 years as an engineer on those tracks...
I got the blast furnace and coke plant...
Awesome video!!! I wish I would have had the forethought to take some video like this when I worked there.
Fascinating scenes! It would look really cool to have 'slag train operator' on my CV.
I am planing to do a railroad layout cantered on steel mill operation, and this is a perrfect example how it operates!
Thanks a million for this video!
Nice compilation video. What a absolute shame to see what our steel industry has become. Weirton Steel is closed and being torn down as of 2016, Browns Island coke works has been gone for 9 years now nearly. RG Steel closed both the Stuebenville and Mingo Jct plants as well...both are majority torn down too. Not much remains in the valley except for Follansbee, WV coke plant.
I hauled the last and final load of steel out of the Weirton, WV mill, and the men standing at the gate to watch me leave is going to be forever on my mind. They were all to pieces, and I can see them in my mind every time I hear about steel mills in trouble. God bless those wonderful people
I can't imagine how truly numbing that feeling was seeing all those people watching you drive out, knowing this is it. Their livelihoods, their paychecks, and their families are now staring at the reality of everything they once knew is now gone. These ohio river valley towns still mourn the losses of those great jobs with each passing day...just hoping that maybe at some point something can return and save us all from despair.
Hickory County Broadcasting, Inc not sure what you mean by that, I work in the mill on railroad right now. This mill never closed!
Love how the shunting crews don't hang about for conflicting moves to clear but take a bit of a run up \m/
Forgot to mention the ALCO running the bottle ladle cars and the jennie’s hauling the ore Scrap Gons slab cars This one is a keeper. Thanks much!
What a great video. Looks like there wasn't any yard speed limit back then. Lol
WOW!!!! There are some shot's that really look like a model rail road. Great video.
it makes me so sad to see what happened to the steel mills in the Valley , my father lost his job at The Crucible mil in Midland PA 1982:--(
Absolutely fantastic! I'm building a Z scale model railroad layout based on Republic Steel and this video is giving me loads of great ideas. Thank you
In the flats of Cleveland?
I remember watching the glow of the slag trains dumping at night as a kid in the 70s
Where did they dump the slag and what do they do with it?
Khadijah Brown down by the river in a pit then recycle time brah
You lived near a steel mill? I bet you had fun watching penn central deliver coal, and the pittsburgh and lake erie railroad switch the cars around the yard
Many thanks, This a great video. This place cant be exist anymore. This kind work
dont live in USA anymore.
Wow!! Hot steel and slag running wild 🎃 This was bright blue America at it's best.
The galvanized range hood in our church's kitchen has the Weirton Steel logo stamped on the inside (although without the employee-owned part as it has been there since 1964).
They're at the one minute 54 mark the door of the right hand side is the door that we actually back into to load coils out of did that back in 2009-2010 for CRST Malone and they're still using all the old trains and pull buckets and everything else nothing's changed thanks for sharing
Awesome video; as a steel mill modeler this is a huge asset looking at real operations.
These guys don't mess around. Great video. 👍🏼
This video was so interesting! Thanks for posting.
Hello . A very good video picture and sound! Genuine steel works with torpedo cars, slag pot cars, steel slabs cars and locomotives factory. Proper Harter operation!
I grew up there (in the Cove section) way back when there were steam locos moving all that steel and other things...literally hated the place! Got out as soon as I graduated high school (Follansbee High). Seemed like EVERYONE wanted to get a job in the mill...all the neighbors worked there...but I hated the 6" of black snow everywhere, the chemical reeks and the whole atmosphere. Born in Wheeling, much preferred it to Weirton! Only went back to visit upon occasion, haven't been back since my father passed away (he was a truck mechanic) and I sold his house (finally) to an investor...for peanuts.
The left is strong in this one...Buyer beware....
I enjoyed watching this. Thanks for taking the time to upload this.
What a very interesting video, superbly video taped, to whomever done, Kudos! :o)
Great video never imagined it would be all a memory
Wow what a clip thanks for sharing would love to see more of these great action and toms of info for modelling. Thanks again
Great video! I’m currently building a steel mill facility on my HO model railroad, and it’s a learning process. I worked for the B&O in Pittsburgh in the 1980s, and saw the mostly dead mills in McKeesport, and having only a layman’s knowledge of the whole operation, this video and others are helping a lot. I figure the mill model will take roughly three years to get it right.
I would suggest the book: The History, Making and Modeling of Steel, by Dean Freytag, published by Wm. K. Walthers. It's an excellent primer to the industry and how it works, as well as modeling ideas and tips.
I'll never forget the smog!
This is freakin' awesome. So many trains!!!!
I see an old times, but so similar to our today`s metallurgy. The condition of the railway at this plant seems even better, trains go so fast! Our locomotives are forced to crawl like snails on very curved tracks, derails are not uncommon.
Simply Outstanding!
We visited the area in that timeframe. You have it right. Thanks!
That was fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of growing up in the Warren/Youngstown Ohio area. I may have to build an N scale Steel Mill now :)
Jonathan Hatfield cmon build in in g scale or 1/25 so we can all have fun.
+Curt Ray Or better yet, hernia scale. :-D Plant is about 110 miles from home.
Same ol story. Made a lot of &didn't want to spend any.
Loved the video. Tons of great action. Switching is where it's at!
great video of times gone by, thanks for sharing!
That is a lot if loco movement at once. Really interesting.
This was a great video. So much action from the end of an era. I’ve looked for the exact location of these shots on google maps and found a few. Really great stuff and thank you for making it available 😊👍👍
Amazing video, thanks for sharing!
Excellent Video. Nice Overview of the Action. Thanks!
I saw as many as four engines running in that video at once. Was there a yardmaster running that operation?
Yes.
@@fmnut That's good! It was running like a Swiss watch. Very fun to observe.
Going into favorites. Thank you for sharing.
1:35 love to see those Conrail gp38-2s delivering the coal to fuel the furnaces with Penn central ore cars
Iron ore pellets, not coal.....
@@fmnut you know what they use them for?
@@FrehleyFan3988 the pellets are smelted in the blast furnace with coke and limestone to make molten iron, which is hauled in the torpedo ladles to the BOF (basic oxygen furnace), where the iron is combined with scrap steel and additives to make steel.
@@fmnut got it👍 you just explained the whole steel making process for me. I haven't understood it much
@@FrehleyFan3988 watch
this film: ruclips.net/video/aKqMp0sm7P8/видео.html. It's a bit dated but the basic process is the same.
Nice to see how that all came together
A premium video. ♡ T.E.N.
Great video
Thanks for sharing your video. I wish to request permission to use a couple still shots of the thimble lime spraying. They would be published in the Lineside, a publication of Steel Mill Modelers.
Feel free to download the whole video and use it as you wish. Thanks for watching.
Wow - that is one busy video! Very cool, thanks for posting..
Wonderfull vintage footage. Thank you
Great video. I bet the air was hard to breath there.
It was. I remember a red dust that would collect on all of Weirton. You couldn't clean it off. Of you spent an hour down town you would get a funny taste on your mouth. Then on the rolling mill they used some kind of grease made out of pig fat. That stuff stunk the worst. They are tearing that part down now and you can still smell it.
Four years ago I topped the hill going into Weirton and seem a hill on the other side of the mill I never noticed before. The mill was so dirt and put out so mush pollution that you couldn't see the trees and the hill on the other side of it.
Alot of people some of which never stepped foot on side the mill died of cancer because of the pollution. In a way I'm glad it's being torn down the air is much cleaner and we have eagles living on the banks of the Ohio again.
My moms family is all from this town. I spent a long time there too. Most moved away but we would call it the Weirton Cough. Before the mill closed and the air was crappy. I used to sleep with the window open around the time this video was made. We never thought twice about it. Now we look back and just aghast at what it was like. But I will always miss Weirton. It's in my blood.
@@erichuff6945 this was probably why my Grandparents had a red house. But I remember that dust. The pools always had a bad bottom due to it. Playgrounds too specially up on Marlin Heigths.
Great action!
Another awesome video!!!!
The amount of activity going on at once, be a cool place to be a yardmaster at.
awesome footage thanks
Some good train action here!
Great video of mill operations back in the 'day'
You don't see much of those operations anymore at that facility. Things changed drastically for the worse around 2003.
Regrettably, Weirton was a mill that had a lot of old equipment. It had been run hard by Ernest Weir, National Steel and by the time the employees got it, even the No. 9 tandem was 30+ years old. The Alcos mostly were second hand as were the EMD's....The sad fact is that nobody spent any money on keeping that mill up. Who won in the end? The Indians under ACEMITTAL, they cut it up for junk and sent it to India. Who lost? two or three counties worth of people in W.Va., OH, and PA. Just keep buying the Chinese junk at WalMart, and likely your job will be gone next, there is always a price to pay.
Also, add that this process was in-gear starting from about 1970s when the first steel mill closed in Youngstown, OH; the 1980s which dropped import quotas and tariffs pressed an accelerator as steel, textiles and timber jobs withered away as those goods fell to lower price of imports; then, the 1990s with GATT/NAFTA and a farewell to auto jobs; toss in the Internet and visa jobs, plus globalization, and the knowledge-based jobs began to shrink. So, 4 decades (40 years) of this piling up will not be readily reversed in 4 to 8 years.
I agree, this activity is from a bygone era never to return. Just as well though, a whole lot less pollution. And your average person today doesn't have any concept or the intelligence to realize that shopping at Walmarts, Costco or Target is actually putting people out of work. And even if they did they'd think that all that lose their jobs are just gold bricks and will just get a job at Walmarts. The steel mills had good hard working people, now the auto companies they had mostly all the gold bricks that most of the day were just milking the clock.
@Elvin Ostrup Industry won't be coming back to the US until labor costs are the same everywhere on the planet. And that's because the "globalists" on corporate boards of directors don't give a damn about anything except pushing profits ever higher.
@@Cryptonymicus "pushing profits ever higher."...because shareholders want more profits. Do you own any retirement investments? Then you are a shareholder indirectly.
Eventually we’ll just go back to living off the land, the hell with politicians, municipalities and high taxes.
This is a great video, thank you for posting it
What a helluva video! I've never seen such a busy rail yard. Definitely a favorite. Thank you!! How can an industry with such production be closed?
In a word......China.
India, Europe and Russia
@@fmnut Democrats
Nixon's the one who opened china , the bastard
Awesome video I checked there area on map google were gone. I was so shocked and so sadly! Thumb up!
home sweet home weirton West Virginia
Awesome video. . Thank you
Wow look at the old conrail engines I have not seen those engines in a long time
They just demo'ed the BOP shop this past weekend. Nothing left but the tin mill now
Yes, I've seen the video. Sad......
That was excellent!! Thank you!!
That slag from the mill was dumped about a half-mile form where I lived in the "Cove area" sighs...
I'm sure it was great for the environment too.
that slag was in about everyone driveway too suburban or rural too ...
This is a wonderful video, it almost look like a model if not for the smoke and humans , no kidding. great vid
This footage is as old as me but vastly better quality.
Povl Besser Clever, funny and a very humbling comment ⛄🎃🎈🎈
Seeing cars full of molten waste rattle like that is nerve racking. I guess this place worked on “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Now this is railroading.
Nice trains.
That my folks was how it was done 24/7/365 with pride
Those "bottle" cars are so cool
0:49 thats a nice looking Alco
wow...what a great video
¡ Ah, esto me encanta !. Muchas gracias.
love the caboose!!!
look at all the Penn Central ore cars!