The only place that takes steel in my metro opened a state-of-the-art massive new yard a week or so back on the opposite side of the metro than the other (this one is only 3 miles from my place!!). I was going to get some pixs of it but the wifey must have the camera. If you have Google Earth and want to take a look, put in coordinates 43.589883 N and -96.656184 W. The current image is from this March when it hadn't opened yet. The yard measures almost 600 yards long, about 4 times the total size of their other place.
I got there about 8:45 this morning and was the only vehicle dropping stuff off. No intimidation like the old yard of driving my Buick up to the scrap piles. They had a couple of RR tanker cars that they were cutting up. Lots of space to do that, in the old yard a much harder thing to do. The guy told me this was 8 years in the making. Must have confidence to open it in a down steel market. Probably take another little load over there on Tues. morn and will try to get some pictures.
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