USS is Alive
After almost 3 years of being Idled US steel restarted it's Granite City Works earlier this summer and boy is it making up for what it wasn't producing. Granite City in 2015 employed over 2000 employees before the plant was idled and the number of active employees dropped to as low as 100 during the idle. US Steel planned to recall several hundred workers to bring the plant back up to over 1500 employees and the second blast furnace had just been brought back up to operation a couple weeks before this. Here at the west end of the yard we see a couple USSX switchers, TRRA's 105 job and a NS job all at the plant. The NS crew was in the process of doing an airtest and the TRRA crew had just tied onto their outbound cars and would soon be off to the yard. At the east end was a couple engines off of the ore trains and near the TRRA yard there was two loaded ore trains waiting to be dumped.
USS is Alive
After almost 3 years of being Idled US steel restarted it's Granite City Works earlier this summer and boy is it making up for what it wasn't producing. Granite City in 2015 employed over 2000 employees before the plant was idled and the number of active employees dropped to as low as 100 during the idle. US Steel planned to recall several hundred workers to bring the plant back up to over 1500 employees and the second blast furnace had just been brought back up to operation a couple weeks before this. Here at the west end of the yard we see a couple USSX switchers, TRRA's 105 job and a NS job all at the plant. The NS crew was in the process of doing an airtest and the TRRA crew had just tied onto their outbound cars and would soon be off to the yard. At the east end was a couple engines off of the ore trains and near the TRRA yard there was two loaded ore trains waiting to be dumped.