Scott Kay posted:Here is a link of some of my photos taken at the Lackawanna, NY (Buffalo) Bethlehem Steel Plant during a Western New Your Railway Historical Society – Railroad Days event held on the mill grounds in 1984. Most of the plant operations had been shuttered by then. One of the photos is of a unique dual ladle car; although I believe this car may have been used to haul molten slag and not molten iron or steel. There was also a massive molten metal submarine card on display. The plant also had quite a network of narrow gauge trackage as well, which crisscrossed the standard gauge trackage throughout the complex.
Back when the plant was still in operation, we would often go fishing on summer evenings out in Lake Erie near the plant and at nighttime it was quite a sight to see a slag train come out and dump the glowing rivers of lava-like slag down an embankment near the edge of the lake.
http://www.bendtheirons.com/im...yrhs/wnyrhs_pix.html
Scott
Scott.
Some great photos there! I liked the dual ladle slag car I have built a few by combining two Lionel slag cars the other photo I particularly like is the SW-1 with that great "captive" gondola one day I am going to convert some of my mint gondolas to look like that. Thanks very much for the link to your photos.
The photo here shows the converted Slag car the original Lionel car and of course my new ladle car. Roo.
