Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Company SW8 #33 works outside the mill in Monessen, Pennsylvania.

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel (WPSC) SW9 A-413 is the former Union Railway 563. This engine was built as Duluth Missabe & Iron Range 12 in March 1953, and sold to the URR in 1963. (Allenport, Pennsyl... (more)

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel bicentennial SW9 1258 pushes a cut of cars up the ramp at Wheeling Pittsburg’s Steubenville South plant in Mingo Junction, Ohio.

Mill switchers sit idle at the Mingo Plant during one of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel's many labor disputes.

The Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel switcher heads out to the Conrail interchange to pick up another load of steel coils. The swticher had the number 911 chalked onto the side and was flying the Americ... (more)

This desolate scene at Mingo sums up the state of the US economy and steel industry in the spring of 2009.

Steel mills and railroads can often be mentioned in the same breath. That point is demonstrated here by WPSX 1551 and the NS Ohio River Secondary in the foreground of the former Wheeling-Pitt Stee... (more)

While waiting for the Pennsy Es I grabbed a shot of this mill switcher.