mlehman Lynn, Awesome pics. I pretty much followed that, but may still be a little complex for those unfamiliar with working steel. /
Lynn,
Awesome pics. I pretty much followed that, but may still be a little complex for those unfamiliar with working steel. /
Exactley correctwithout orders they dont roll steel.
Lynn
Present Layout progress
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/p/290127/3372174.aspx#3372174
This may help a bit
Your going to need an Ore dock for the boats bringing ore etc in and boats shipping steel out. Your going to need a location where scrap steel is cut down and prepped to go back to the bosp. Slag dump area. Mechanics shop. probably a water filtering building. Storage building. locomotive shop. Security , medical admin building. Security will obviously be at the gates entering the site. Gotta have a Canteen. lol.
Hope this helps and hope you have tons of room.
Just want to say thank you to everyone who helped I appreciaate it and my traain room space is 10`6' X 26` 9" so a steel mill with a harbor nearby should work I am sure I will be back for more help
Thanks again for the help and the links
George
George I posted a reply in the "Selective Compression Photo Examples" thread about my steel mill which you might find useful...
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
As someone who is designing a portion of his layout to be a steel mill, don't focus on the large steel mills out there, you'll get overwhelmed. The recommendations on the MRR Book, The Model Railroader's Guide to Steel Mills, is an excellent source with examples. So is the Dean Freytag book The History, Making & Modeling of Steel, while out of production, just about every modeler around me had a copy of it so ask around to borrow. Doing simple web searches to see how others are tackling the issue. I've found Ken's photos in a number of places and they were inspirational in the design, as well as others, in how to tackle the space issue. Ultimately, almost by accident, I found the the former Republic Steel complex in Warren, Oh, as an almost perfect, modellable steel mill, and it's location fit into what I wanted to model. Here's the Bing Maps link to here. It receives all of it's raw materials by land. There's also a local railroad that has a steel mill representation within a 3x22 area with another 2x~15 area that includes a blast furnance, BOF, Open Hearth, and Rolling Mills as backdrop buildings/pictures. Just some things to think about,
Phil