Nonstop Action at the ArcelorMittal Steel Mill

Footage from the old crumbling pedestrian bridge overlooking the ArcelorMittal steel mill and busy mainline in East Chicago, Indiana.
The steel mill trains are really interesting to watch. Specialized train cars designed to carry molten or solid steel. Trains dropping off cars, using the wye, or doing runarounds. Old switcher engines that look like they belong in a railroad museum. This is a great place to go.
What makes this spot even better is both that the bridge offers a great panoramic view, and the breeze from nearby Lake Michigan cools off the hot summer day.
At one point, between the mainline and the steel mill, the trains were coming nonstop. Normally I stop the camera a few seconds after a train passes, but every time I went to hit that red button, another train would come. There ended up being one clip from my camera that was over an hour long.
In this video you'll see bottle trains, flatbeds with steel, freight trains passing us and each other on the mainline, a train with a switcher at each end (and workers uncoupling one while the train is moving), and more.
If anyone's interested, I have more footage of those workers that were oiling switches near the beginning of the video: • Oiling Switches at the...

[@n-scaleespeegalveston-hear4641]

I could watch this all day 😍

[@rrbone]

This. Is. Railroading. 👍

[@Twin_Flyer]

Thanks for the video! Haven't seen an actual remote control engine in use before

[@robertszallavarysullivan9570]

They're junk, trust me--and are dangerous.

[@careywalls9342]

it's called a ocu unit we use those at sasol in lake Charles Louisiana

[@ThePwcj]

The iron horse reference just sank in, sometimes I am a little slow.

[@shaunnesbit1698]

SOMETIMES I AM A LITTLE SLOW AT REPLYING !! THE IRON HORSE REFERENCE ONLY GOES BACK TWO HUNDRED YEARS SO YOU AINT THAT SLOW

[@businessnews9292]

11:57 hathi Bhai ka kya hai yaha kaam 😀😀😂😂😂😂😂😂🇮🇳🙏🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🚩🚩🪔🪔🙏🙏

[@joshcalhoun9326]

Tips on good days/times to catch mill jobs?

[@drewschlecker3194]

Is this in Coatesville?

[@royw4883]

east Chicago Indiana

[@marylouhalliday6690]

I enjoyed watching this video but would have loved it better if the wind was not blowing so hard. It's hard to watch a video when all you hear is the annoying wind. Either turn off the volume and inform us or film on a day when the wind isn't so strong.

[@TheOneTrueDragonKing]

On that first switcher at 4:15 --- are those headlights RED?
If so, why?
And it's not just me who wants to know --- a friend wants to know as well, but she can't be here.

[@TheOneTrueDragonKing]

Also, is it just me or does the horn on NS #7118 sound a little... squeaky?
If so, what the hell is up with THAT?

[@Twin_Flyer]

The light is white. On some cameras it may look red (or a red aura in this case) due to the type of chip in the camera when shooting outside. Have seen it before. The camera might have been set to an indoor setting...

[@mikebythesea45]

Red Eye setting?

[@braddaddio3963]

The lights are on dim and actually will appear orangeish red in color.

[@davidgaleski5303]

just work there

[@Orc-icide]

So boring

[@robertszallavarysullivan9570]

Breathing's boring, if you think it is.........

[@cobaltblue8500]

You just a piece of crap if you don't like switching