Roaring through NS (ex-NYC) territory, bound for Detroit and environs.

Not remotely-controlled today, though.

The morning Wolverine races through steel mill country at track speed. Notice the three drawbridges on the horizon, two of which (I believe) are permanently drawn.

ArcelorMittal switcher 153 pushes scrap gons into the plant, while another MTSX switcher waits to use the switches. On the left, a CP train bends onto the IHB, while an Amtrak Wolverine approaches... (more)

Arriving in East Chicago, IN, after a short jaunt from Riverdale, IL, NS 5333 crosses the NS Chicago Line and an EJ&E industrial track to join the IHB tracks. It will shortly drop its four loaded... (more)

ArcelorMittal 153 has been around this plant for some time, in various paint schemes. Today it's shuttling scrap gondolas around the southwest boundary of the plant.

CP Hick can be a busy place, but it can't get much busier than five moving trains at once. From farthest to nearest:

1. Westbound Canadian Pacific trackage rights auto rack train m... (more)

ArcelorMittal 301 rolls out of the plant with fresh ingots, hot out of the moulds. You can see the heat distortion best off the cars near the back. When this train got near, the ambient temperat... (more)

NS 5333 has brought four hot bottles from ArcelorMittal's Riverdale, IL, plant and is placing them for processing at the massive lakeside plant complex in East Chicago. This was an active Saturda... (more)

NS 5333 has just spotted four fresh bottles of molten iron in the ArcelorMittal Plant complex, and the crew begins to switch and weave their way back to home trackage.

Two empty bottle trains have been doubled up and will soon be shoved back into the plant while another mill switcher pulls some flats with still hot steel.

NS GP38-2 #5184 leads the Bakery Local westbound on trackage rights on the CSX Barr Subdivision

Mittal Steel's #143 was still sporting the older Inland Steel "paint" in 2007. #143, or "Peggie," as it's apparently known, says smoke 'em if you've got 'em.

CN 2679 leads an eastbound manifest through East Chicago, IN.

UP quadruple 4 leads this eastbound manifest through Hick Junction.