URR 7 slowly pulls over the scales in Clairton with a cut of coke from #1 and #2 coke unit.

ET-5 (yellow/red) and ET-1 (blue/white) stand by for their next assignment while ET-4 heads in to grab 2 bottle cars.

There is never a boring moment in the Mon Valley, here a 4 way Mill meet happens at ET. URR 1 is building up a cut of scrap and lime cars to spot at the BOP, 76A sits on the Cinder bridge with a ... (more)

With slabs fresh from the continuous caster the 25 job heads south/west across Independence Rd. destined for the west side slab yard.

3 "Crows" take a short break on a slow Sunday morning at ArcelorMittal Cleveland Flat Carbon.

The little train in a big world. With the operator riding on the front of the first bottle car (the little orange speck) the remote controlled ET-1 begins to build speed for the ramp to the BOF ah... (more)

After trading places a few days before with BMEX 259, RPRX 2010 finally hits the main line performing some tests that will possibly lead to the Union Railroad buy some gensets. Here 2010 leads a t... (more)

The afternoon shift at ATI has three critters running along Blue Ridge Ave. in Natrona Heights. Here slag cars are on the move. Allegheny Ludlum's two facilities are stainless steel mills.

It takes lots of little trains to keep a blast furnace running. At left CWRO 206 works the C5 blast furnace switching bottle cars while up on the high line CWRO 211 holds back a string of coke car... (more)

A pair of B&LE SD9's load a coal train at the Union Railroad's Duquesne Coal Docks along the Monongahela River.

A meet inside US Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant. ET-53moves empty hot metal cars down from the BOF while ET-5 waits to move a cut of empty coke hoppers.

Night roster shot at US Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant.

Looking like a pair of HO scale figures, two remote control operators ride the front step of a well-worn switcher at the Edgar Thomson Plant of US Steel's Mon Valley Works.

With a fresh load of coke from the ovens of Clairton, five Union MP15's drift through the S-Curve at the south end of Duquesne Yard.

A huge amount of birds occupy the yard as Y190 is picking up cars from the CWRO on the other side of the river where their yard, Clark Avenue Yard, is. Over the last couple years, the steel mills ... (more)