Joesph L Block

[Guest]

The American Courage is loading pellets in Ashtabula for a Cleveland shuttle, so it looks like they are not going to Middletown after all.

[Guest]

Is there a train loader in Ashtabula? Or will each car be filled via a front end loader?

[Guest]

U S Steel owns the Conneaut docks.

In Ashtabula the Pinney docks are owned by a large corporation named Kinder Morgan.
The rail connection is Norfolk & Southern.

[Guest]

US Steel’s facility would be in Conneaut, not Ashtabula.

[Guest]

Pretty sure Nippon owns US Steel's train loading facilities in Ohio.
Hence Cliffs who owns AK Steel would need somebodies help to get ore into rail cars, no?

[guest]

Cliffs bought AK Steel (Armco) several years ago.

[Guest]

Rail from Ashtabula to Middleton? Cliffs calling in a favor from Nippon Steel?

[guest]

My guess is this ore will be delivered by rail to Cleveland Cliffs mill in Middletown OH.

[Guest]

Aside from blast furnaces running in Pittsburgh, Cleveland , and Northern Indiana where else are boats going to go?
Torco is down. Coal is gone. Too early for the northern stone quarry's (yes?) Maybe a few salt cargoes

[Denny]

Indeed I did notice that her destination was changed from Toledo to Ashtabula. However, the Block has delivered ore to Ashtabula before. I recall in 1998, both her and the Sykes made a few at that time very rare trips to Ashtabula with ore pellets. If I’m correct, I think back then, they were carrying those loads from Escanaba.

[Guest]

Anyone else notice she is currently carrying ore to Ashtabula? Seems like an odd destination for her.