Union Railroad Slabs "Smoking Hot"

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3 Union RailRoad MP15DC's Lead 22 cars of loaded hot slabs due for the Irvin Works Rolling Plant just up the line about a mile. Notice on the " Caution: Hot" on the sides on the slab rack cars, this is due to the extreme heat rising off and that is on the slabs.. They are shipped while hot to be able to roll them in the mills. Once arriving at the rolling mills, they are heated up once more until being molten red. Then the are rolled, and cooled. Then they are shipping out by either the Union RailRoad, or by trucks.


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[howie1212]

@xxxDeath9572xxx , no offense, but that little brat ruined the whole video

[xxxDeath9572xxx]

I'm sorry - I don't understand what your saying.

[WhyAyeMann]

I have to cut steel like that every day in my welding class. we do electrode arc welding on that kind of steel too. Ya know, even though im not supposed too i take my welding electrode and make a big pool of molten metal on a scrap piece sometimes, and i will take my slag hammer and play with the molten metal. Its really cool, but dangerous. Nice catch with the steel train kid. Try to find some old steamer will ya? if ya do, shoot me the video.

[xxxDeath9572xxx]

Thanks for telling me about your story. I do have some old steamer videos if you would like to see them!

[exconrailchris]

Holy Christ Kid.....shut up!

[xxxDeath9572xxx]

Well excuse me. Maybe if you actually posted a video on here, I'd take your more than the obvious advice.

[westonsz]

@xxxDeath9572xxx

Lawyers and U.S. educated business people should be banned from working in congress and making decisions. Neither has the logic to think anything through. America produces the worst corporate leadership on earth. There is no creativity and no talent in those ranks and no justification for the high money they make. The result is the mess America is in right now.

[westonsz]

@xxxDeath9572xxx

For the global guys the cost of the good is the cost of the lazy executives along with inventory and the high cost of shipping. A better good could be produced if the majority of the cost went into producing a quality good. When goods are produced on demand near the market rather than shipped thousands of miles then wharehoused the cost savings is huge thus mark up reduced. Why do you think the foreign autos locate factories here?

[westonsz]

@xxxDeath9572xxx

Understand that for the cost of the top 100 executive wage earners at many of the global brands you could employ a hundred factories here in America paying U.S. wages and taxes and not only defeat the global brand but be profitable as well. Greed will ultimately be the undoing. I work in manufacturing and love the work and could be very happy running such a company for much less than the overpaid corporate elite.

[westonsz]

@xxxDeath9572xxx

What I am hoping for is for someone to take the chance on America by marketing U.S. made goods and creating a brand recognition. Executive greed and expensive oil will undermine the competitiveness of the global brands thus making it very practical and competitive to produce goods near a market with U.S. labor. The real ace in the hole is that I am counting on the executives never being able to make enough and that being the undoing.