Blast Furnace Recent Photo

Sweet, can't wait to see it  

Same here!  The man is a master modeler (not to mention a darn nice guy)!  

A little detail on the hoist.  I dropped this right after taking the photo.  It took a pretty good hit and still managed to stay mostly in tact.

Just unbelievable craftsmanship Dave! I so envy all the scratch builders on this site. I cannot imagine having a steady enough hand to do this sort of thing. I have a hard enough time just lining 2 wall at 90 degrees and that is with all the special clamps!

You all have a tremendous talent and vision! I tip my hat to each and every one of you!

Dave...beautiful!!  Very creative way of using the MTH bridge base!!

Alan

I made some skip carts this weekend and thought I would try some rivet decals.  Pretty cool product.

Dave

wow.....can't wait to see it up close!

The hoist is great! Whose stairs, rails and ladders are they...Plastruct?

I've been playing around with this little plasticville switch tower.  It was a fun project and it fits pretty well in the limited space I have.

Stairs are Korber fire escape, ladders are platruct and railing is scratch built.

Dave

Super job, Dave.  Looks awesome! 

George

As another poster said, I don't know anything about your structure except that it looks great! Greasy, grimey, rusty buildings look great near railroads. Your scratch-built fits the bill. Congrats.

David,

Your details are just great. I could look at the pictures all day.

Alan Graziano

Dave, you are doing an incredible job on this project. Nice museum quality!

It just gets better and better, Dave!  

Looks fantastic.

I agree with everyone! How tall is IT? What is your layout height?

Those skip carts... NICE!

The switch tower looks great there Dave.

Thanks for the update.

Looks great,  really good attention to detail.  I wish I had your talent.

Looks great, Dave!

Dave....it just keeps getting better and better!  AND...you sure turned that Lionel switch tower into a masterpiece....WOW!!

Alan

I finished up the hoist house this weekend.  I didn't go crazy on detail with this piece because it lives behind everything else.

Dave

The furnace is about 47" with top details.  Table top is also about 47"

Dave

I think that hoist house is plenty detailed! I think the whole project is awe inspiring. It also looks like it is and will be very expensive. Is that true?

I took a couple of phone pics, thought they were cool.

Dave

Dave, I agree, very cool! Malcolm

Stunning! 3 rails? I didn't see any 3rd rail!

Dave....this has been a great thread!  You are a master craftsman...the pictures are fantastic

Alan

I've been fortunate enough to see Dave's not-so-little creation up close and personal.  It IS awesome!

What he needs now, of course, is a row of about four or five of them so it will look like the furnace complexes I recall seeing at U.S. Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube back when I was a kid.     Just kidding, amigo!  

Dave, those last 3 photos from your phone are fantastic! I'd swear I was looking at the real thing. You definitely have talent. What are you going to do for an encore?

In O'gauge, an entire steel mill would be the entire basement and them some. Many were close to a mile long and that's about 110 feet in our favorite scale. In N gauge it may be doable. Just maybe. On my layout, a mile is around once and then about 15 feet more. At 39 feet it's just about as long as the average passenger station platform. 

Fantastic pictures Dave. Brings back a lot of memories some good some bad. O well fantastic job and I hope to see it all some day.

Dave, I spent a little bit of my time in the Warren, Ohio mill at the blast furnace and you have nailed it!! Looks great

Jeff

I received a new caboose from Malcolm (brother love).  I am fortunate to have two of his masterpieces on my layout.  

I also started on the roofs for the furnace and cast house.

Dave

Dave,

The steel mill looks great!!! I like structures that dwarf the trains and this one does just that. I am glad you like the caboose.

Thanks, Malcolm

Dave,

  Looking great, hopefully I can get over there for a visit soon. I will be done with my evening classes in mid June. Keep the pics coming!

Jeff

Dave, you may have mentioned this, but was is the foot print of the steel complex? How tall is it? It really looks wonderful!

Very impressive, Dave !

Looks great Dave very nice , good job !!! - Matt