Steel mill modelers: Here is something you don't find very often ...

[dehusman]

Search for "steel mill" at this site:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/hhquery.html

Hundreds of pictures, maps, drawins, plans, elevations, etc.

For example is here are plans of the works at buffalo with plans of the palnt as it evolved.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhsheet&fileName=ny/ny1500/ny1584/sheet/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Bethlehem%20Steel%20Corporation,%20Lackawanna%20Plant,%20Route%205%20on%20Lake%20Erie,%20Buffalo%20vicinity,%20Erie%20County,%20NY&displayType=1&maxCols=2&itemLink=D?hh:7:./temp/~ammem_YCFB::

Dave H.

[Johnnny_reb]

Inerresting very interresting.

[dknelson]

... a complete track plan for a prototype industrial steel mill railroad.  True it is British but the general ideas and design would be nearly universal - sharp curves, small locomotives, gritty buildings and landscape. 

Here is the website (has much info on the plant)

http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/37/Corby.htm

Here is the trackplan:

 

Dave Nelson