Working rail roads and their tracks.

[MossRoad]

Great example photo!

 

[Runner]

Some speeders:

 

[RayIN]

Indiana train

 

[MossRoad]

 

[MossRoad]

 

[MossRoad]

 

[MossRoad]

This guy looks like he's having some fun!

 

[RayIN]

Anyone know where the U.S.A.'s largest private RR company is located?


Navel Weapons Support Center/ Crane, Indiana

 

[ArlyA]

I think these cars are soooooo neat.
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The hot metal car was a specialized industrial unit designed to carry molten iron from blast furnaces to steel mills. Liquid metal was poured into the car’s firebrick-lined cylinder through a small hatch at the top. Because of these features, the iron could stay in its liquid state for up to 24 hours. Though the torpedo’s thick metal plate allowed it to withstand the heat and weight of its cargo, it also made the car incredibly heavy and difficult to maneuver. The bottlelike-car design came in a variety of sizes. Standard ladle-cars had 12 wheels and weighed up to 125 tons when full. Larger units had 16 wheels and weighed up to 400 tons.
The Bethlehem Steel Company (BSCo) No. 127 is a standard, mid-sized hot metal car. Buit by the M.H. Treadwell Company c.1935, it was one of 54 hot metal cars used to service the Bethlehem Steel facility in Sparrow’s Point, MD. The car was retired in 1977 after Bethlehem Steel purchased a new fleet of heavyweight ladle-cars and eventually donated to the B&O Railroad Museum in 1984, but did not arrive until 1997.
The M.H. Treadwell facility was purchased by Bethlehem Steel in 1969. For a variety of reasons, the American steel industry crashed in the 1970s and 1980s. This decline led to the closure of Bethlehem Steel eventually in 2003. The company is remembered as a symbol of Maryland’s industrial past.

 

[gstrom99]

I think these cars are soooooo neat.
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The hot metal car was a specialized industrial unit designed to carry molten iron from blast furnaces to steel mills. Liquid metal was poured into the car’s firebrick-lined cylinder through a small hatch at the top. Because of these features, the iron could stay in its liquid state for up to 24 hours. Though the torpedo’s thick metal plate allowed it to withstand the heat and weight of its cargo, it also made the car incredibly heavy and difficult to maneuver. The bottlelike-car design came in a variety of sizes. Standard ladle-cars had 12 wheels and weighed up to 125 tons when full. Larger units had 16 wheels and weighed up to 400 tons.
The Bethlehem Steel Company (BSCo) No. 127 is a standard, mid-sized hot metal car. Buit by the M.H. Treadwell Company c.1935, it was one of 54 hot metal cars used to service the Bethlehem Steel facility in Sparrow’s Point, MD. The car was retired in 1977 after Bethlehem Steel purchased a new fleet of heavyweight ladle-cars and eventually donated to the B&O Railroad Museum in 1984, but did not arrive until 1997.
The M.H. Treadwell facility was purchased by Bethlehem Steel in 1969. For a variety of reasons, the American steel industry crashed in the 1970s and 1980s. This decline led to the closure of Bethlehem Steel eventually in 2003. The company is remembered as a symbol of Maryland’s industrial past.View attachment 1858589View attachment 1858590

Very cool. I would sometimes see these cars carrying molten metal to the Acme Steel plant in Riverdale IL, when my METRA commuter train would cross over their tracks (Indiana Harbor Belt line?). I could usually see them glowing, in low light. Only three or four cars in the consist. They always had a spacer flatbed or gondola car between them.