Toledo Industrial Railroad TIR at Ironville Tower interchange train with Norfolk Southern GMTX 2214

CSX 544 leads an Intermodal train north at Ironville tower in Toledo Ohio before the Toledo Industrial Railroad (TIR) can run their interchange to NS. The TIR operates along the Maumee River front east side in Toledo Ohio. Their largest commodity is Pig Iron from the Cleveland Cliffs plant but they also move aggregates, chemicals and oil off ships it looks like. I cannot tell from satellite photos what industry the boxcars would be coming from. Can anyone shed some like on that? Essentially a transload operation, they do run on Norfolk Southern rails to interchange at whatever NS calls that yard in Toledo these days... about 4000 feet between the docks and the NS yard ladder or 2000 feet from Ironville to the yard ladder. Thankfully they cross 2 public roads. Power on this days train was GMTX 3406 and GMTX 2214. I would have gotten the westbound move at Ironville but some nosey prick from the refinery was getting his feathers ruffled about me hanging around...next time viewers!

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