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Hello all, Over the past few weeks,I've been working on a one of a kind steel mill ladle hauler in HO. The real machine is still hard at work in Mittal steel plant up north. This machine I have wanted to scratch build for some time.As with most of my projects it got itself placed on the...

Hello all, A side from modeling steel. My railroad of choice to model is norfolk southern & southern. You can be a die hard NS modeler if you don't own one of these. The kit its self is a wright-trac models resin kit. It wasn't to hard for me with limited vision to put this kit...

Hello all, Below are a few pictures updates of the BOF. Entering the finsh stages of the structure. Lately I've been working on the bag-house structure. Today I made two blower fans for the duct work. Scratch building can be rewarding, but yet what a pain sometimes. In an older post I...

Hello all, My wife is helping me finish the steel mill layout before my heath gets worse. Here is a few photos of the BOF after adding more detail to the structure.The kress carriers are completely scratch built, the other vehicles are store bought. Patrick Beaufort,SC DRSC

Hello all, Folks I have been working and building my steel mill. As of recently,I've completed the BOF bag house,flare tower,conected the down-comer and added more detail including more lights. Right now the slag pit is taking shape. It is being built from 4" extruded foam board.With a...

Hello all, Having little time to devote to my mill complex,I did have a little. The latest scratch build is of a old school forge shop.The massive 12,000 ton forge press is still on the work bench,waiting to be installed inside the shop. The outside of the shop has one last and very...

Hello all, After a hiadis of a few months and building my 12'X14' shed to house my layout. The steel mill complex is well under way. I started by scratch building an enormous basic oxygen furnace.Right now I'm working on the walthers EAF & rolling mill ,they are to be mated together...

Hello all, Its been awhile since I posted anything on this forum. Heres whats been going on lately. I managed to build my 12'X14' shed and....scratch build the largest structure on DRSC. A BOF in HO,didn't take but a month and a half to build. Here are a few pictures of the new...

Hello all, I just completed my latest scratch/kit- bash project of a 1987 design scrap bucket carrier.Drawings for the prototype were downloaded from the US patent office.Carrier took about four days,working in the evening after work. The base of the project was again a HO Norscot 627G...

Hello all, I've scratch built all sorts of things ,but I have to tip my hat to this guy. A true master of model animation in N scale,cranes powered by remote control!!! Enough of my talking,check out this link. The Sceniced and Undecided Railway The reason this site caught my eye...

Hello all, Since the morgan crane was built,I needed something for it to do. A steel converter is used inside the BOF building. It's sole purpose is to melt scrap quickly. They do this by charging the vessel with scrap metal and then a nice charge of molten iron. Blown with oxygen at...

Hello all, Thanks and Kudos to Doc wayne for being so kind as to share photos of his crane. Mine is somewhat based on a much heavier duty steel mill crane. This crane will be used inside the BOF structure as soon as its built. All scratch built using all kinds of things.....far to...

Hello all, My wife just got back from a trip. She bought me a brand spanking new Atlas 8-40C...DC. The problem is ,I placed it on the test track, and before I could even power up.The motor acts like its locked up It sounds like a buzzing noise,wheels won't move....nothing. Now if I...

Hello all, As plans for my outdoor shed have fallen through the cracks for now. I sat back down at my work bench and started scratch building again. Many thanks to Docwayne for his pictures of his heavy duty overhead crane. Yup thats what I'm working on as we speak. Shoot its a lot...

Hello all, While living in coastal SC,theres not much rock to make cast molds out of. So I went to the hobby shop Sunday {Bull St station,Savannah,GA} and purchased a rock mold. I should have bought all they had. These little jewels are priceless,can't wait to buy more. I cast mine out...

Hello all, One of the projects on my work bench right now is a Demag ladle caster. Finding a drawing or a picture of one , is starting to be a real pain. I have about ten volumes of iron and steel yearly proceedings books ,to go through just to find a drawing of this beast. Should...

Hello all, I'm going to need some real shale for the river bank. I saw in Dec 06 edition of Model Railroad News or might have been in MR. Anyhow ,one of the articles was about using real shale rock for a river bank. Seeing I live in SC,right on the coast,the only thing I have here is tons...

Hello all, After many nights after work, I'm done with these models. I thought I'd post them for you steel mill guys of there. Shoot I got the idea for these of the internet, all scratch build using only photos. Geeez I thought I was gonna have a stroke building the e-crane ,what a pain...

Hello all, I'm almost done with my latest scratch build.The only thing left to do is paint some more and the lower two sets of handrails.All said and done it didn't turn out to bad.Everything from the bucket to the booms moves,human powered of coarse but still cool. These cranes operate...

Hello all, Operating a steel mill has tons of speicilized vehicles running around and this latest scratch build is one of them {crane is fixed in place,so this bugger won't be running around }. Union Railroad in PA has one of these cranes at their barge unloading center. Based on the...