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| SP mainline power pulls a train of Brazilian slab steel out of Pier D in Long Beach, California - 1989 |
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| SP SW1500 2461 shoves empties for slab loading at Pier D in Long Beach, California |
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| Loaded slab steel waits in SP's 7th St. Yard in Long Beach for the haul to Fontana. |
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| Steel Slab from Brazil |
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| Oregon Steel Mills, Fontana, California in 2003. BNSF now does the hauling. |
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| BNSF purpose built slab car at Oregon Steel Mills, 2003. |
With the closing of the Kaiser Steel blast furnaces in 1983, some fabrication continued at the site using imported slab steel from Brazil. SP had the contract to haul the slab from the Long Beach Harbor to Fontana. Later the hauling was done by the BNSF. A very detailed academic look at Kaiser is Fontana is here.
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