Unlike Buffalo NY, the steel industry in Cleveland, OH is still thriving at the massive ClevelandCliffs steel complex! With two blast furnaces and two mills, operations run around the clock both with the steel industry itself and the railroad that serves the site. That railroad: the Cleveland Works Railway, more aptly known as The Crow, shuttles all sorts of raw materials and products all over the complex, including steel slabs and coils, and coke for the blast furnaces. Another key material, the life blood of any steel producer, is the molten iron which gets transported from the blast furnaces to either the Corrigan McKinney Works on the east side of the Cuyahoga River, or the Otis Works on the west side, in special bricklined cars known as torpedo cars. With a small fleet of EMD SW1001s and SW1500s, these cars and their hot liquid payloads are shuttled back and forth, and all over the complex in this first of four videos from my earlyDecember day trip to the 216!
Filmed 12/2/2022

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Equipment used:
Canon Vixia HF R800
Canon EOS Rebel T6 DSLR
DJI Mavic Mini 2 Drone