CP 502 action, NS, CSX, CP, IHB, and Arcelor Mittal

[@thelonious2213]

This is one of the best railfanning videos I've ever seen. There is plenty of activity, a good variety of locomotives and rollingstock, and to top it all off it's well recorded. 19:38 NS 7111 has an awesome horn by the way.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you very much! Glad you liked it!

[@w.rustylane5650]

The very best of train operations I've ever seen. I could watch all this action all day long. So much action! Cheers from eastern TN

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you so much!

[@newjerseyray]

I thought I would only watch a few minutes, and then ended up watching the whole clip. lots of activity, fun to watch. thanks!

[@h.m.muller9307]

same w/ me ...

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Glad you enjoyed the show, thanks for watching!

[@chuckeberth4370]

Excellent video with lots of action. Loved seeing those older locos.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you!

[@kevinjohnson4532]

What an awesome video capturing both main line and industrial railroading... even with bottle cars. Thanks for the great show

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the action!

[@intercity1971]

Very interesting and beautiful video! Thank you! 👏👏👏

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!

[@martinbigg2029]

One of the best videos on trains I seen, lots of action great to watch I just hope other UTubers who do train videos learn from this

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Really glad you appreciated it, thanks for watching!

[@lynne6417]

I love the sound of that Arcellor Switcher #008....that little baby has a lot of power...reminds me of the trains pushing coal cars and scrap metal cars along the Allegheny River at night, in and out of Allegheny Ludlum Steel. That deep distinct rumble I'd hear it and it would lull me to sleep.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Definitely an impressive sight!

[@steves2694]

The RC unit sure shoved that steel load around the corner, fast !

[@SkyhawkACE123]

It's a little scary how quickly they move around that sharp corner sometimes!

[@gotsteem]

I'll bet that's your white car parked at the bottom of the pedestrian ramp in several of your shots. I love those little switchers.. Switchers are my favorite. Great footage! Thanks!

[@SkyhawkACE123]

That is my white car. Thanks for the comment! Glad you liked it!

[@galdavonalgerri2101]

As a non-English speaker, I was really confused when reading REMOTE CON ROLLED. I actually tried to figure out, what ROLLED means with in connection with a locomotive. Then, I found out, the locomotive is remote *controlled* on the right hand side, but remote *con* *rolled* on the left hand side. Thank you for making clear what you mean.

[@a.davidmoore8966]

I think a T fell off somewhere.

[@sd90mac61]

OH Boy oh boy!!! Got trains running, north, south, east, west, pulln and PUSHN up, and down, this facility never ever rest, it's mind boggling 😱😵😭 I'm lost, lol, I guess this is what to expect when your the steel industry, I've never seen so many, coil cars, nor so many rolls of steel, them poor mini yard locomotives need a good night's rest at night, lol, WOW, thanks for the amazn video!!! EXELLENT FOOTAGE!!👍👍👍💯🌟made in the good ol USA!!!👍🌟👍

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!!

[@LibertyRailfan]

Great video, nice catches and tons of action, awesome job!

[@SynchroScore]

Always neat to catch the hot metal train on its way to the continuous casting mill in Riverdale. Never been here, but I've seen it passing through Dolton.

[@sergioarroyoguerrero5434]

Los trenes en el Este de Chicago , la fabrica de acero , cruces diamante y cambios automaticos .

[@charlesbonkley]

Great video! I never thought about going up on that pedestrian bridge because I thought it was basically off-limits.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

From what I understand, the walkway bridge i was standing on was built as a part of the Cline Ave project. Sometime in the 90's the state donated it to the city of East Chicago. The rent a cops at the mill will try to kick you out every now and then, and it's usually fun to argue with them.

[@25mfd]

@ 2:00 WOW... he is rip assin' round that corner ain't he???... holy cow

[@SkyhawkACE123]

They sure don't waste any time!

[@lynne6417]

😂😂😂😂. Man, I was thinking the same damn thing

[@BenjaminEsposti]

Lovely shot of the roof of the ET44AC at 9:45 !!! Been waiting to see what it looks like from above! :)

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@KyleW818]

That little switcher has got some power!

[@familytraditiontransportat7951]

It's 2020, how busy are things up there now, especially after the sale of Arcelor Mittal's sale ... Excellent video! Have always had a soft spot for Industrial Switching ...

[@SkyhawkACE123]

I have not been back here in quite a few months, but when I was things both at the mill and on the main were significance slower. Sad what a few years can do.

[@Steven_Williams]

Excellent video! CP 502 is one of my favorite spots for this reason.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

steven williams Thanks man. me too! I just love the industrial scenery.

[@adeeponionbrah]

Really great videos. An important documenting of action around East Chicago and Gary mills. Variety just keeps coming. I want to see film shot in 1966 of the same area.

[@stephaniesinger1159]

Wonderful video! Lots of action and super neat trackwork. Would be a good place to model on a layout!

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thanks! Someday I'll have this 502 area modeled. Not exactly, but close enough.

[@72mrblade]

Beautiful sunset!!

[@cefnonn]

Thanks, this is a first class video! Fantastic!

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you!

[@jasonraine6593]

so cool. love this heavy industrial action. thanks for sharing

[@ellisjackson3355]

Me too that's why I like to visit this area from time to time.

[@AlfTrains]

Great vídeo

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you!

[@genivalalvez5281]

É uma maravilha assisti esses vídeos de ferrovias . Pra me é um ótimo lazer . Fui criado perto de ferrovias e entendo muito bem .

[@filhadodeusvivoherdeiradoa8826]

Também gosto muito. Na verdade eu amo os trens de ferro.

[@jcure]

Railfanned here and Dothan on a road trip between Calif and Grand Rapids on a Sunday. Nice to see the area from the air.

[@petedefillipo8852]

This is AMAZING footage

[@fredwest7436]

Great video with plenty of good action.

[@trains3501]

This place is busier than a one legged pole dancer!!,,,,

[@rrbone]

This is so much better than the Oprah, Prince Harry, and Megan interview.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

I agree, thank you! Lol

[@mike32277]

Well done.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you

[@David-nl1zt]

Wow, busy place!

[@lesbsocal9107]

One of the more realistic model railroads

[@jawbreaker14878]

very busy track

[@John2E0GTU]

Wow! You should have taken 3 video cameras! 😆😆

[@geoffreylee5199]

The steel company unit was on tracks laid by a model railroader.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

It's quite the impressive maze of tracks!

[@RsRj-qd2cg]

It's a remote controlled unit so basically a standard gauge model train.

[@DrRchannel71]

great video, like

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you!

[@randyfunk8028]

Your videos are great

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you!

[@m94neves57]

Very good video! :)

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Thank you!

[@midlandcompound]

Terrific video! Thanks for sharing.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Much appreciated, thank you!

[@jeremycross8598]

CP crew: *Yeah, we are definitely lost..*

[@no_bitches0621]

Unpaid Intern I actually see CP and CN often out here in the Midwest. They are pretty common.

[@ellisjackson3355]

CN a lot yes. They have an HQ in Homewood. CP has a yard in Bensenville.

[@jstoli996c4s]

Lol 😂

[@brianpletcher9113]

Cp has a line running through South Bend IN and frequently run trains on NS lines to reach there other tracks across the midwest.

[@kevinbraden9445]

Put 40 years In there👍

[@thomassalerno5203]

Outstanding Everything Railroading happens In Chicago!

[@ejefan1068]

Great vantage point.

[@ejefan1068]

Great sounds too 👍

[@xray606]

Good stuff. It's hard to see good mill footage. Have you ever found a way to get footage of the Gary Ry. down by USS?

[@xray606]

@@patkramer5372 It was a spin off out of the CN purchase of EJ&E. They kept a little section down there and named it the Gary Ry., and use some ex EJE units.

[@ralphaverill2001]

Why the remote controlled Arcelor Mittal yard locomotives but not remote controlled switches? Aren't remote controlled switches rather common? Maybe they want to keep one (low-paid) human on the train to hit the kill swich if the remote control fails. In the near future every train shown in this video will be auttomated. Nice video. Thanks for not adding any background music.

[@ElectronicsTech09]

This place is very busy.

[@MogoPlays69]

I love this🤓

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@davidcoleman958]

Oh my goodness! What a hotspot this is. How many trains run here per day?

[@randallfunk8389]

great video

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Randall Funk Thank you!

[@waynemiller7382]

Those SW1000s seem to have a vertical stacked set of marker lights on the back edge of the cab side wall, on both sides, you can just see them sticking out. Do you know what they are for? Are the color coded for something? You can just see in the last clip there just one of them lit up green.

[@jeffhansen4941]

Just a cool video. Any video by BP ,USX Gary ,and the Calumet Ind District.

[@filhadodeusvivoherdeiradoa8826]

👏👏👏

[@titantitan3030]

hasta ahora el transporte mas economico que hay es por tren

[@filhadodeusvivoherdeiradoa8826]

É verdade. Econômico e seguro também.

[@joshcalhoun9326]

Tips for good days/times to catch mill jobs?

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Week days seem to be better. But it's been slow for several months.

[@mattstarr8203]

slabs coming from west side to east side for 80 hot strip

[@no_bitches0621]

8:41 Watch for ICF on bridges. Yea, there’s this terrible thing called icf which is worse than ice and grows on bridges.

[@WeldinMike27]

I thought for a second what the hell is icf.

[@jpenny]

Is there a particular reason why they put an open hopper car in between each iron torpedo car? I just was curious if it was for safety, or some other practical reason. Thank you.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Weight distribution is a huge reason, those bottle cars are significantly heavier than an average freight car, even a locomotive

[@jeffskene42]

do the modern gensets do good in winter Canadian Pacific tryed thenm but didnt think they did very well in the cold climite

[@keonisan]

Shame that Dash 8 wasn't leading the Amtrak that would have been epic.

[@RailfanJX]

Can you tell me the precise location of where you took these shots? I've been to the area a gazillion times but I can't find a good safe place to railfan.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Where Cline Ave/912 exits to Michigan Ave. There is a pedestrian bridge that goes over the tracks.

[@RailfanJX]

@@SkyhawkACE123 Is this considered a safe place to railfan?

[@gotsteem]

www.google.com/maps/@41.6534932,-87.4434041,3a,75y,1.41h,85.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sx_4Fqjc3S8d8ZWbRONDL7g!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?hl=en

[@williamsquires3070]

(@ 24:36) I guess the guy in the switcher got bored, or decided he'd parked the flatcars on the wrong siding (or more likely, his boss told him, "You f***ing idiot, I told you those cars go on track 2!! Now go back and do it right, or you're fired!") :)

[@timmensch3601]

is there a reason why there are empty flat bed cars between the bottle cars?

[@firemann57]

Spread out the weight and add some brakes.

[@TheOneTrueDragonKing]

Is that... UNION PACIFIC at 0:27?!

[@GFSwinger1693]

14:25 What was he attempting to tell you guys?

[@fredlohmann1448]

i just saw UP!

[@pilot3016]

So there is a mystery over the oddly shaped cars (not shown here, except in the intro frame). So I ask.. what is this about? A disclaimer? Nothing to see here? Answere. You know which ones I am talking about.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

Clearly you didn't watch the video very long, because the video thumbnail occurs around the 10:27 mark. They are hot metal "bottle cars", they store hot molten liquid steel basically.

[@pilot3016]

@@SkyhawkACE123 I did, along with my wife. Sorry I missed it. My apologies. So..why do they ship molten metals? I'm 69 years old by the way.

[@SkyhawkACE123]

@@pilot3016 this is an inter-plant operation. They move raw products around the steel mill.

[@pilot3016]

@@SkyhawkACE123 interesting. Seems like I have seen some footage of these cars moving through small towns. No conspiracy theory here..just seems odd. I have been to the mitsubishi factory in Miihara Japan (it has a foundry and manufactures offset printing presses)...and this just seems ..odd.

[@charlesbonkley]

@@pilot3016 Actually, the molten pig iron is shipped over to another steel mill in Riverdale, Illinois where it is put into a BOP (Basic Oxygen Process) furnace to reduce and refine its carbon content.

[@davidgolbert3548]

What do the row of lights on the sides of the end cab switchers indicate?

[@SkyhawkACE123]

The locomotives working the mills are remote control. Green means under power, red means stopping.

[@davidgolbert3548]

@@SkyhawkACE123 thank you

[@LLIef]

класс

[@michelb613]

What trains are those? 6:58

[@CombsTowerProductions]

That bridge you're on is for public use right? i want to make a trip out there

[@ohboy3622]

Yes

[@boog567]

Is that an SW1001?

[@kevinhennessy7061]

How far from inland steel was this

[@SkyhawkACE123]

This is Inland steel

[@DerrickODea]

I heard from a guy the IHB is just the worst....

[@tonytlopes2064]

alittle to fast for the yard

[@djdjjsjsdhhshd4730]

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[@jayvasquez6711]

Horrible horrible company.

[@stevenmontoya8616]

Jay Vasquez why?

[@kevinbraden9445]

Worked there 40 years, thank you b mother inland