At about the five minute mark there will be some switching action at the long shuttered Gulf States Steel in Gadsden. One switcher is still in the yellow Republic Steel scheme. Mid to late 80s maybe. The yard on the north side of the overpass is Siskin Yard, named after the Siskin brothers, the last owners of an independent TAG. Southern named the yard after them as part of the butter up process of buying TAG. There is a SOU coil steel car in the yard. TAG had a small fleet of identical cars They bought the gondolas secondhand from Southern although they were rather new. Then Southern and TAG had identical covers made that were to Republic specs. I always thought it would make a cool model. SRHA probably has drawings of the gondola and the covers in their archives. But they tend to sit on what they have and sadly I don’t see them ever doing the car in any scale. Looks like the mill is busy. I was there a few years before they closed. I watched NS deliver a long string of coke or coal. Too bad they were unable to survive. Back in the day, one pay period a year, the steel mill paid their people in silver dollars so as they went about their commerce, folks in the community could see the impact of the mill on the local economy. Even railroads that didn’t serve the mill directly, wanted a piece of the traffic pie. The Central of Georgia proposed building a connecting track with TAG at about the Chattooga/Walker county line. To bypass Chattanooga and get the mill traffic miles sooner. This same guy posted many late 80s vids from greater Chattanooga. In case you are feeling nostalgic.
Warren
Warren Stephens