A modified Chessie caboose trailing a cut of ladle cars - two sights you probably won't see around Weirton today.
A former P&LE switcher leads a train of scrap gons. This view was taken from Weirton's Main St. which provided a great vantage point to watch and photograph mill operations.
Before the blast furnace was shuttered, Weirton was a proverbial beehive of activity. With WV Route 2 running through the middle of the mill, it was like having front row seats to watch the actio... (more)
A Saturday trip to Weirton back in '09 didn't reward much activity, as expected, at the once bustling steel mill. Seeming almost abandoned, it was a bit of a surprise when one of the in plant SW15... (more)
Weirton Steel used a small fleet of ex-CR door-less boxcars for in-plant moves. Several wore their original PRR paint with patches over the Keystone logo.
A pair of SW1500's are serviced at the ex-Weirton Steel engine house. I love the Monopoly-looking logo on the sand tower!
Ex-Weirton Steel SW1500
Weirton is one of those places that I wish I would have visited more often. Unfortunately today the mill is not nearly as active as it was a few years ago, and it's highly unlikely that the blast... (more)
The Route 2 bridge was a great place to watch Weirton's operations in 2004. Parts of the mill are still open today, but production is down and the blast furnace has been shuttered.
The old Panhandle Bridge carrying C90 blends in much more with the steel belt surroundings than the highly stylized Veterans Memorial Bridge adjacent to it.
Having just crossed the Ohio River on the Old Panhandle Bridge, NS C14 heads east toward the Weirton Running Track.
In case you were wondering, this is a "K-Boose".
Before the blast furnace was shut down, it was possible to catch trains hauling ladle cars and bottle cars around the mill.
Loaded slab train passes old molten metal pots now stored awaiting an uncertain fate. Mittal announced closing of the "hot end" of the plant in Dec. 2005 bringing to an end the need of these ladle... (more)
Slab train entering West Virginia via the old Panhandle Bridge. The US 22 Veteran's Memorial Bridge is in the background.
