Eastern Railroad Discussion > Mingo Jct Article in RailPace

Anyone read the article in Railpace about Mingo Jct?  Sad, to see a place with so much industry at one time left with little.   Beside the Follansbee coke plant is there any type of steel making in the area anymore? 

Steve

I haven't read the Railpace article, but the only other steel making industry in Mingo Jct is the idle and partially demolished Mingo Junction Steel Works owned by Frontier that has been shutdown since 2009.  That is it.

 

BNSF6400 Wrote:
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> I haven't read the Railpace article, but the only
> other steel making industry in Mingo Jct is the
> idle and partially demolished Mingo Junction Steel
> Works owned by Frontier that has been shutdown
> since 2009.  That is it.
>
There are local newspaper reports that the facility is currently hiring workers. Time will tell if this amounts to anything but the electric arc furnace is still located there and supposed to be servicable. Current traffic through Mingo Junction is some oil off the Ohio Central (G&W), trash trains from NJ going via the OC to a landfill nearby and coke from the Follansbee Plant. A handful of other things move through the Mingo Yard but there is a lot of capacity available for anything new.

DaleR

The shale gas business keeps W&LE quite busy, but coal for power plants and steel products are way off too.