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GE 44-tonner switching Nucor Steel, Seattle, 5-20-2011

The Nucor steel mill in West Seattle has a couple of these old GE 44-tonners. Nucor melts down scrap metal to make rebar and flat steel stock. The mill has a scrap metal receiving yard over on W Marginal Wy about a mile away. These switchers move gondolas of scrap metal back and forth between the receiving yard and the mill. The mill also has BNSF drop off hopper cars of minerals that are used in making steel and flatcars to be loaded with finished product. This is their little storage yard north of the mill. Here, switcher YD-02 is weighing some gondolas. She then pulls them forward to clear a switch, then backs them onto a storage track. She then pulls the hopper into the mill.