Steel Mills
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:37 pm
Steel mills have this reputation for being unmodelleably large, and I guess for good reason, but from the 70s on new smaller Electric Arc Furnace mills which effectively use steel scrap for the basis of the process were opened up in several parts of the country, bringing the industry away from it's traditional heartlands...
Here's an example of a fairly compact EAF mill, Nucor Steel in Seattle, crammed in between residential streets and a bit of urban motorway, a surprisingly public venue for something like a steelworks! One interesting feature of this one in particular is that the lines to access the yard from it's supporting yard actually run through one of the structures, so you could present it as a standalone layout almost - and whilst it's still a large industry, it's not so large that it couldn't be modelled...
On Bing: http://binged.it/13Iv5gn
Lots of images come up if you do an google image search on 'Nucor Seattle' - and Youtube has some shots of their fleet of GE's.
These were shot in the exchange yard the other side of the motorway viaduct (parrallel to Harbor Ave SW) but give an idea of current car types - check the overhang on the flatcar on the second vid! Long cars and 'trainset' curves combined!
Here's an example of a fairly compact EAF mill, Nucor Steel in Seattle, crammed in between residential streets and a bit of urban motorway, a surprisingly public venue for something like a steelworks! One interesting feature of this one in particular is that the lines to access the yard from it's supporting yard actually run through one of the structures, so you could present it as a standalone layout almost - and whilst it's still a large industry, it's not so large that it couldn't be modelled...
On Bing: http://binged.it/13Iv5gn
Lots of images come up if you do an google image search on 'Nucor Seattle' - and Youtube has some shots of their fleet of GE's.
These were shot in the exchange yard the other side of the motorway viaduct (parrallel to Harbor Ave SW) but give an idea of current car types - check the overhang on the flatcar on the second vid! Long cars and 'trainset' curves combined!