[4K] Lava Train! US Steel's Molten Iron Torpedo Trains In Action!
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Yes, I know molten iron
Yes, I know molten iron is NOT lava. But it's a cool title, right?
On March 16th and 17th, a friend and I spent hours standing outside US Steel's Edgar Thomson plant in Pittsburgh, PA documenting these incredible operations. This is by far one of the coolest (if not the coolest) thing I've seen in my years of recording trains.
The trains move pig iron (product of smelting iron ore in the blast furnace) at speed through the mill to the BOP (Basic Oxygen Process) shop where it will be dumped and turned into steel for America's infrastructure.
Steel is the world's most important resource today. Just about everything uses steel. Cars, ships, buildings, bridges, railroad tracks, the trains that run on said tracks, airplanes, and even your refrigerator. Although most steel is imported from other parts of the world, some projects such as government installations may only use American-made steel.
While the industry slowly fades away in the United States, a few mills are still going strong. Edgar Thomson, the birthplace of American steel since 1875, still produces just under three million tons of steel per year.
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