Mini-mills provided half of U.S. and Canadian steel-making capacity in 2001. Their decentralized geographic distribution mirrored U.S. population density (with the notable exception of California), and did not work to the benefit of railroads. The remaining integrated mills primarily sold high-quality sheet steel to auto and appliance factories.
Railroads included in this map:
BNSF Railway; Canadian National; Canadian Pacific; CSX Transportation; Florida East Coast; Kansas City Southern; Montana Rail Link; Norfolk Southern; Union Pacific
This map originally appeared in the November 2002 issue of Trains.
