I want to build a ironworks . I started looking for pictures ,could not find any. Does any one know were to look?thanks.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Cornwall Iron Furnance on Google will be the best place to start. It is a foundry. There are pictures galore on this site and others.
There are those industries that generate raw metals.
There are those that process this raw metal into semi finished form.
And those that take this semi finished metals and make something for people to use.
A foundry such as Cornwall takes the following recipie:
15 bushel Charcoal
400-500 pounds of ore
30-40 pounds of limestone
Every half hour.
24/7.
And the furnance is tapped about twice a day I believe and the molten iron pours into the sand molds below.
My figures are to be taken with a grain of salt, shaking the dark corners of the internet until the little pearls of wisdom fell out with this information took some research.
Look in the Historic American Engineering Record in the Library of Congress site. They have photos, maps, building plans, etc, etc. WONDERFUL resource. Searchable. Try several variations of ironworks (iron works, iron mill, iron foundry, etc).
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
Dave H.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
Some companies with Iron Works in their names are somewhat deceptive. For one example, the best-known products of the Bath Iron Works are ships - specifically, U.S. Navy destroyers.
OTOH, I bet they receive plenty of their raw materials by rail.
They actually deliver partially by rail. The completed ship is moved from the assembly shed onto the floating drydock (that actually launches it) on a cradle supported by a hundred or so standard freight trucks rolling on standard gauge rails. The connections between the drydock and the mainland are more than a little reminiscent of the connections between N-track modules.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
What era are you interested in and waht type of ironworks?
A furnace or a foundry?
SE of Alburtis PA is the Lock Ridge Furnace, a historical site of a furnace that operated through WW1.
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=18&X=2248&Y=22421&W=1&qs=%7cAlburtis%7cPA%7c
The "dots" are pilings that supported tracks that dumped the raw materials into storage areas. The furnance is the C shaped building. The corners are were the two furnaces were, the center is where the boiler/powerhouse/blowers were and the horizontal portions were the cast houses where pig iron and castings were made. the former P&R railroad runs diagonally across the picture. The areas to the south and east are slag piles.
Falls Valley RR wrote: Cornwall Iron Furnance on Google will be the best place to start. It is a foundry. There are pictures galore on this site and others.There are those industries that generate raw metals.There are those that process this raw metal into semi finished form.And those that take this semi finished metals and make something for people to use.A foundry such as Cornwall takes the following recipie: 15 bushel Charcoal400-500 pounds of ore30-40 pounds of limestoneEvery half hour.24/7. And the furnance is tapped about twice a day I believe and the molten iron pours into the sand molds below. My figures are to be taken with a grain of salt, shaking the dark corners of the internet until the little pearls of wisdom fell out with this information took some research.
Cornwall is a site to behold, or at least it was about 20 years ago when I was there.......
Just thought of something odd, I live less than 15 minutes from there but yet 20 years since my visit......