Saturday, May 11, 2013

Adding Lighting Effects To Steel Modeling

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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.

--> Dumping slag at Bethlehem Steel in 1994   From: steelmanjules, YouTube Video. (2007, September 26)  

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. 

How to model an N scale slag dump continued.   --> From: djstrains.YouTube Video, (2012, August 7). 

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 

    

 
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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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