show us you steel mills

Steel????

Oops steel mills 

Not if you are from Pittsburgh.  

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David

Any one have one .?

Paul/Matt:

I think you have entered uncharted territory. You might consider contacting Alex Mallaie or Allan Graziano, either of which could do this model for you. They are both very active on this Forum.

Good luck with this project, sounds really interesting.

Thanks passenger train collector. I just stared one it is all most done it has ben worked on for over a week. I just needed a roof idea so I googled it and found a very good looking one and based mines of that as a base and add to it like a ruff salte. I will post pictures when it done thin after it is on the layout. Thinks anyway, I will keep them in minde on the way . paul/Matt 

Actually, if you will take a look at David Minarik's model he is working on, you will see some fantastic modeling.  Just do a search here on the forum and you will find it....or you can go over to the Scenery forum and look for his thread...

Alan

Paul/Matt,

I will send you some pictures when I get home from work on a few of them that I constructed.

Alan Graziano

I know alan that is how I got the idea is on Dave's layout here on the forum. I am making a steel mill like like his,and I am making a sheet metal mill like the one in his shop. Thanks!!!

And the other Alan I cant wait to see the pitchers of yours too!!! Thanks 

thank you to all that have helped me with this topic! 

Here's my mill.

Now that I've made an attempt at humor.Eventually I would like to build at the least a building front of the Timken company Gambrinus ave. plant in my home town where my Grandfather worked.

Paul/Matt,

Here are pictures of some steel mills I have constructed.

Alan Graziano

That is very impressive work, Allan.

Looks great thanks !!!

OK, here are mine.  They are all 3-D backdrops, albeit deep ones.  They are in place to disguise a long descending track that connects to a storage yard underneath the other side of the layout.

First, my take on the Weirton Steel Open Hearth mill.  I've used 2 Lionel Industrial Smokestacks to simulate individual furnaces.  The prototype had 17.  The building is positioned 45 degrees to the wall to give some depth to the backdrop.

Next, the prototype Weirton Steel Blooming Mill.

And this is my take on that building.

I don't have a close-up with the building detailed.  It now sports a lighted billboard.

I also have plans (and a partially constructed frame) for Weirton Steel's Strip Steel Mill.

Alan Graziano and Dave Minarik are two of the excellent steel mill modelers on this forum.  There are a few others as well (Cleveland Rock Stars - not sure I got the handle right).  These guys are producing great looking detailed structures.  Mine are more like backdrops.

George

Looks great thanks !!!

I scratch built this blast furnace steel mill a while ago when I started my layout.  I'm planning a rebuild, one with a lot more detail. But I'm still happy with this one for now!

Looks great nice job guys!!!

Does that mean we actually still make bearings in the good ole' US of A... Hooray!

Steel-making is alive in the USA, but in the form of specialized metal product mills or mini-mills.  The days of the large integrated steel mill complexes like Weirton are over.  Also, since steel is the most recycled material in the world, the years have seen decreasing use of blast furnaces to get iron ore in preparation for making steel.  Now you see a lot of iron and scrap electric furnaces to remelt steel.

George

If you are in the Strasburg, PA area on September 6, NMRA Division 11 (Susquehanna) is doing a day of clinics at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.  I am giving my Building Large Structure with Foamcore clinic, which discusses techniques for constructing the mill buildings shown earlier in the thread.

Hope you'll come out and say hello.

George