Lol this is cool. I’m an engineer for wheeling and Lake Erie. I’ve worked this plant about a hundred times. They have a awesome break room that has vending machines with just about everything in them. Cool to see it from the air!

Wheel loaders or front end loaders not bulldozers. Awesome views with the drone. You can really see everything that there rather than trying to see from a street where things are hidden. Neat video. Stay well. -Wil 👍

I'm so envious about how green it is out where you are. Even the water looks green. I'm out in the dry west so we are all desert brown, gray, burnt umber .... but our mountains are to die for :) Your drone work is premium .. as usual my friend.

Coking looks a lot cleaner nowadays. I can remember the plumes of black smoke coming out of the stack at Sharon Steel's Fairmont, WV works. It closed in 1979. It was a superfund site until a few years ago. Now the land has been reclaimed.

I didn't know so much went into Coke. I thought it was just carbonated water and a secret syrup.

@3:50 Those are water tanks. Water is used to suppress coal dust during high winds. My local coal plant has fixed towers with automatic sprinklers when the wind picks up.

That’s a great video DJ! Love the views, I wish the rest of the plant was still standing or operating.

DJ Love your videos !!! My Father-in-law a shift Foreman of the Coke Battery’s at the Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point Works near Baltimore. My dad worked at the rolling mills there for a couple years in his early 20’s. He later worked at Koppers Company for a few years, and yes it is the same company that had a small fleet of gray covered hopper cars, and I have one on my layout. He worked for their Construction Division which was located at Pratt and Scott Streets and wrapped around the parking lot on the east end and south side of the B&O Railroad Museum. He worked his way up to Chief Engineer of Construction and had to travel around the world at times. In 1960 he was sent to Genoa Italy for two and a half years to build a section on Kernigliano Steel, not sure of spelling !! I was eight at the time and what a great opportunity for a kid. Dad would take my younger brother and I into the mill and show us around the plant from inside the car. I have wanted to model a steel Mill on my layout, we will be moving soon and I am hoping to find a house with enough room to do so, as your videos have rekindled my desire to do so. Barry Broyles

Ah, the Muddy Mon. Almost hard to believe it's now 1000 times cleaner than it was in the '80s.

Love your videos! Keep up the good work!

Awesome footage as always! Thanks for sharing!

These videos are so helpful!! And they're such an awesome documentation of the area for history. I wish people could have done this when the mills were all running.

Very interesting video DJ, yes there are 4 main types of coal Anthracite. Bituminous. Subbituminous and Lignite excluding peat but if you subject it to high pressure and heat it will become coal, something i learned over the years, keep up the great work,

Great video that provides inspiration for future models. Thanks for sharing!

Cool shots and great ideas.

Thanks D.J., informative as always. Stay safe bud. 😎👍👍👍🛤🚂

Beautiful video. It looks like the rain would wash into the ditch and right into the river. I wouldn't want to swim in it either! --dunc

Very nice aerial shots Very informativr

My uncle who grew up in Braddock said that a lot of the young guys including him used to dive off the old Rankin bridge. He told us the bottom of the river was covered in old cars. In the early 60s I remember going water skiing on the Monongahela very close to downtown Pittsburgh and the point. I remember being scared to death because the barges were everywhere. So yes, I swam in the Mon. 😆

A lot of stuff in that river. Doesn't look aby cleaner than it did when I was still living in the area.

Very good detail. Works staff are keeping the storage area very tidy, probably to reduce coal dust contamination. The plastic tanks are to store water to be sprayed on the coal or the roads for dust-reduction.

Great stuff as always DJ! Grew up in Johnstown so love seeing the different stew related industries still working

Nice footage as always

Great Video, very interesting, looking forward to part 2 👍 I'm sure there is Zombies in that water too ..

Interesting as always DJ

Nice idea as always. thanks for sharing....Jack

I live along the Mississippi River and where I live it's mud brown in color

Nice River. Maybe there's a lot of living things in the river. Carbohydrates! It's like a greenish! Nice video. Thanks again for your work doing these videos, they are great.

Cool! I wish i had a drone to look at stuff like this lol.

I am not surprised by the color of the water. In the 1970’s the Monongahela River (Allegheny and the Ohio) caught on fire because it was so polluted. It was one of the major reason for passing the Clean Air and Water legislation of that era. Great video as usual. Pennsylvania Coal is great for making Coke but now most of the fuel coal comes from out West, it burns cleaner.

Great video would like to see more of the wheeling and lake eire if posibal but any train stuff is good in my book

Great shots! Greg in TN

Thanks for that,D.J Many aspects I did not consider.And this is a small operation? I can see I will need more space for the cokeplant! Great drone shots as usual > Can you get views inside the buildings?

This is amazing. A video I needed to see to model my N scale layout. Can coal be transported in Coke hoppers? I’m wondering mainly so I don’t have to built a rotary dumper…

3:22 I wonder what those two rail cars on the siding are, at the left, about half way down?

Just an fyi, the dozers might be blending, but the main reason that they shift the coal continuously, is because coal produces high internal heat nd spontaneously combust into flames. Thus, the coal piles must be continuously shifted and water sprayed onto it.

Haha! Love your sensayuma, e.g. the river (just mud and algae, I"m sure). Some might appreciate an explanation of those hoppers with one end painted differently to show which end has the rotary coupler, why only one end needs one, and the proper way of making up a string of them to go into a rotary dumper. That drone adds so much to your footage. Finally a suggestion for another location: Neville Island. I'm assuming there are still industries there and still served by CSX. There's a cool narrow bridge there too. I'm sure you've seen it before, going between Pgh and New Castle. PS Since we both love machinery, I think those bulldozers are more accurately called front-end loaders. solutionsinsafety.com/training/front-end-loader-training/

The green river look is just the water reflecting the green hills. Fly that area again this fall and see what color the water is. Fellow drone enthusiast and potential model railroader here. Your excellent productions scratch both my itches. MavicMini and Autel Evo comprise my current fleet. I thought I caught a Phantom's shadow profile in one of your previous vids?

Love the video DJ, but those were NOT bulldozers, they were both wheel end loaders...look like caterpillar equipment

Good video like all your rest. These drone videos have really helped me out with track industry configurations. Also I believe you just have a Hater that always gives you a dumbs down.

DJ, virtual railfan cameras are starting to pop up every where, is there any that you know of on the runs that you do? and if so do you wave, or toss a paddle out the window and start rowing. or you and the conductor hold out wings and flap ? lol

How do you keep the water out of the engine on the locomotive during a down pour?

You called them bulldozers; I might call them very large payloaders.

We've been running lower grade coal in trucks into that place lately. Nice people and they make it easy to get to the correct pile.

B-25 Bomber!

That was some great footage! Wait why are we still calling it "footage"? There no film of many feet. Hmm. Maybe we should call it bytage? That was some great bytage! Hmm. Does not sound great. Anyone have any other ideas?

I don't know about crashed UFO's or monsters in the Monongahela but bodies...without a doubt! :)

DJ, the Wheeling serves the plant after 7pm most evenings

Steel mill / coke processing not for my layout. But most interesting

Are you thinking about building any of the buildings you have been recently researching?

Jimmy Hoffa is in that river! :-)

Hello DJ, hope your doing well. I have a question. Do you have to let who ever runs the place know that your gona be flying a drone over their property?

I like Small Coke over Medium Pepsi, But I would rather just have myself a Large RC Cola.

Are sell or Middle Is how you say it

Mr DJ, I saw a video on KZfaq where a 60 plus freight car train was being pulled by 3 CSX engines. The coupler actually sheared off. This was caught on video by a rail fan. The crew actually replaced the coupler (he helped). Do trains carry spare couplers and the equipment to repair/replace them? I asked the person who took the video but he hasn’t answered. 07/02/2020

Of course, the Loch Monongahela monster. Who hasn't heard of that one?

Endloader, not bulldozer. :)

1:12 Ah. So basically it comes in with empty hoppers and departs with the ones that were loaded

how steep is the grade

They're actually called loaders, not bulldozers. Nice informative video. :)

Loaders not bull dozers

Tonawanda Coke is a little smaller I believe. But shut down now.

Just FYI, those are front end loaders, not bull dozers. Just saying....

...bass boat making a wake...

Sorry DJ but they aren't bulldozers, they are frontloaders. Bulldozers have blades and push.

But (and you know someone was bound to go there ...) which grade of coal is used to make NEW COKE??? 🤡🤡🤣