As you may know steel was a very large part of the U.S.
economy. Most of the steel production that was done in the U.S. is now gone.
Steel was a very important part of the railroads revenue, from hauling ore to mills
and hauling finished products out.
Two places that I have been to in my life stand out, when it
comes to thinking about steel production and they are Pittsburg, PA. and
Baltimore, MD. I remember as a teen watching the ore boats come into Sparrows
Point to off-load at Bethlehem Steel, I also remember seeing all the trains
in-and-out of the plant.
I found a few videos that I thought you might enjoy, that
will show some steel mill activities to go along with my earlier post Good Deal On Structures, about the Walthers Cornerstone products. I hope that these
videos will give you some good ideas about how to model a steel mill on your
own layouts.
The video that I found to show is really cool, slag cars being dumped at
Bethlehem Steel 1994.
Slag Car |
You can buy slag cars from Walthers or your favorite hobby store, when in stock. Bachmann also makes a reasonably priced DCC GE 70 Ton locomotive with Bethlehem Steel reporting marks to pull your steel production rolling stock.
Ge 70 Ton Locomotive |
The next video is a video how to, for teaching how to model a slag dump. Keep in mind that this is in N Scale not HO, but you can adjust what you need to for your scale. The video I am going to share is how to install lighting to make the slag that is dumped look hot still. I think that this is a very cool idea and thought that you would too.
Lighting effects can make your model railroad come to life.
You can light buildings, streetlights, and a number of other things on your
railroad to make a scene stand out. Lighting for your layout can be powered by
track current or other methods, and controlled on DC layouts or DCC layouts.
Add that extra realism; add lighting effects to your layout.
Thank you,
Robert
Reference:
Bethlehem
Steel- Yellow and Black - GE 70-Ton - DCC [60612] - $95.00 : Bachmann Trains
Online Store!. (n.d.). Bachmann Trains Online Store!. Retrieved May 11,
2013, from http://shop.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=258_288_308&products_id=2045
Gold
Line(TM) Slag Car Ready to Run -- Painted & Numbered Single Car (932-3144)
-- Walthers Model Railroading. (n.d.). Walthers Model Railroading - main
page. Retrieved May 11, 2013, from http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-3144
djstrains.
(2012, August 7). How to model an N scale slag dump continued. Steel mill model
railroad layout - YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved May 11, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4a2unLQovA
steelmanjules.
(2007, September 26). Dumping slag at Bethlehem Steel in 1994 - YouTube. YouTube.
Retrieved May 11, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhJF_hTJ2Rw
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