mbinsewi My layout is a "kind of", and "what if" the WC (Wisconsin Central) was still around, but spun off some local areas, allowing short lines to take up the slack. I would like to see what photos you have, but, your non-working link in your signature goes to a "never loading" photobucket page. Mike.
My layout is a "kind of", and "what if" the WC (Wisconsin Central) was still around, but spun off some local areas, allowing short lines to take up the slack.
I would like to see what photos you have, but, your non-working link in your signature goes to a "never loading" photobucket page.
Mike.
My Photobucket link doesn't work. Just uploaded two photos of my Kress carriers to Flickr. Can't figure out how to link them to MR.
If you really want to see them. Hop on Flickr, type Kress carrier on search bar. Lookie for the yellow monstrosity. Click on that photo. Then Plumpy2009 for the other photo of the Kress carrier modelled after Phoenix Slag scrap box carrier.
If you wouldn't mind. Please post both photos for others to view. Have a tough time posting photos myself.
Thanks for chiming in Mike.
Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb
Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.
Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.
SpaceMouse There's an operating scrap yard in my ex-home town, Indiana, PA. It has rail service and everything. You should be able to get a good picture on Google maps. Edit: The name of the company is Kovalchick Corporation. The rail seems to be gone now, haven given way to a convention center. However, about 10 years ago, they brought in a huge crane for The B&P railroad and made B&P pay for new rails. Anyway, the place still looks active--just not with rail service. Look closely, you'll see that the yard is now scattered in a patchwork over several blocks.
There's an operating scrap yard in my ex-home town, Indiana, PA. It has rail service and everything. You should be able to get a good picture on Google maps.
Edit: The name of the company is Kovalchick Corporation. The rail seems to be gone now, haven given way to a convention center. However, about 10 years ago, they brought in a huge crane for The B&P railroad and made B&P pay for new rails. Anyway, the place still looks active--just not with rail service. Look closely, you'll see that the yard is now scattered in a patchwork over several blocks.
Hi Chip,
Thank you for the info. Might incorporate some other places into my mill.
doctorwayne Sounds like an interesting project, and likely less space-consuming than an integrated steel works. dragonriversteel ...Do you model anything from your hometown? Several of my industries are named for real ones in my hometown, but only a couple of them bear any resemblance at all to their prototypes. Others are named for friends, or for real industries located elsewhere. As on many layouts, most would be too small to require rail service in real life....but then, my towns are only a few feet apart, and I don't find it at all difficult to suspend my sense of scale to make things work. Wayne
Sounds like an interesting project, and likely less space-consuming than an integrated steel works.
dragonriversteel ...Do you model anything from your hometown?
Several of my industries are named for real ones in my hometown, but only a couple of them bear any resemblance at all to their prototypes. Others are named for friends, or for real industries located elsewhere. As on many layouts, most would be too small to require rail service in real life....but then, my towns are only a few feet apart, and I don't find it at all difficult to suspend my sense of scale to make things work.
Wayne
Yes,quite a bit smaller. My previous steel mill layout,the BOF took all the real estate. This time much smaller footprint same type of building. More on that build later.
That's the beauty of model railroading. Friends and places remembered. Thanks for chiming in Wayne.
I went to this grade school in my home town.
Here is my rendition on my layout. Not perfect, but it works for me.
My You Tube
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
dragonriversteel...Do you model anything from your hometown?
Greetings fellow Model Railroader's.
My title may seem odd but let me explain. When I was a teenager there was a local scrap yard that help feed the steel mill. Gulf States Steel in Gadsden,Ala. The scrap yard was in Attalla,Ala a few miles away. Both were served by Southern & later Norfolk Southern.
To feed the hungry BOF required a steady stream of incoming scrap loads from Culps Iron & Scrap in Attalla,Ala. Not all the scrap came from Culps but quite a bit did.
In the early 90's Gulf States Steel shutdown,later Culps did also. Both gave me and my friends many hours of watching the goings on of both in the late 80's.
I always wondered what would have happened if the managed to stay operating. Hence my idea for a layout. Culps was an interesting place. Material handlers,friction cranes with electro magnets and the shear. Dangerous place inside the fence but we had a makeshift platform to peer over the fence. Giving us a clear view.
Spent many hours watching this place when it was alive with activities. Which gave me ideas to model.
So my current layout depicts Culps feeding a mini mill BOF. Everything for the most part has to be scratch built. Not a problem just time consuming. I've scratch built/bashed four material handlers, shredder,feeder aprone,two Kress carriers (currently building a slag pot gantry crane)and countless other machines.
A "what if" is starting to materialize in HO scale.
I have to build most everything first before figuring out where to place each piece.
Pictures soon...
Do you model anything from your hometown ?