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Hi yaz bloyseboy, The cat sideboom was made from a die-cast toy bulldozer, bought from wal-mart. I scratch built the boom, counter weight ect. The D8 wanna be dozer is also a toy dozer, I finnished another dozer last night by adding a ripper and ROPS too. With a total of four MOW dozers...

Cool looking tamper. What scale is it ? Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}

Great looking crapper car..... Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}

Thanks....The decking was made from coffee stir sticks bathed in alcohol and indian ink. After they dry I cut them down the center with a straight edge blade. Cut one the width of the flat car or gondola....and presto flat car decking. The only problem with scratch building decking such as this...

Hello Miles, Nope couldn't find any pictures of the real machine. I got a hold of this drawing for this machine out of a 1970's book " Iron and steel yearly proceedings". The drawing itself was very small, I used the copy machine at work and blew up the drawing. I know this...

This is what type I plan on build next for the future mill. Patrick

Thank you all for the kind words. I'll be working on another type of kress carrier soon...speaking of which. Doc, which type of kress carrier did you operate, the four wheel or six wheel design ? The kress straddle carrier of the six wheel design is what I'm looking into. But it looks to be...

Hello all, After many hours at my work bench {3 hours} yesterday and last night. My newest carrier is done ! I made a tepmplate to go by should I make any more of these carriers. This being my second scratch build of a kress carrier, it didn't turn out to bad, the cab is a little large...

Hello all, I've tried to find another norscot HO cat scraper at wal-mart, but haven't been able to get one. So I'll have to use one I've super detailed ,for this new model. I have all the parts ready all I have to do is convence myself to go through with the build process. I'll start by...

Looks very cool Ross, I like what you've done with this car. I can't remember if I have one of these or not. But indeed very MOW looking car..... Patrick

Thanks Josh ...I'm glad you like them. There will be more to follow in the coming months. Patrick

Forgot one photo from this shoot.

I have a bunch more cars to post, but its such a pain to take them all out and put them away again. I tried to take good photos, still learning how to use my Sony camera. Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}

Josh, Here's a few of my MOW collection, although not all of them are represented. I'm still working on the detail parts, trying to customize each car as much as possible.

Hello Josh, Sure can post some pictures, but it will be this evening. Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}

Hello all, Aside from modeling steel mills, I also love to custom build mow work equipment ,such as special rail cars and such. Cranes are a big part of any work train ...I own four two big hooks {one athearn and one bachmann} a walthers 25 tonner and walthers newest addition. I'm...

Josh, The first picture you posted is a photo of Peach creek shops steel mill complex. I buy a vast majoraty of mill related stuff from peach creek. Hres a link for peach creek shops.... http://www.peachcreekshops.com/page.php?id=steel&UID=2006031620571071.81.102.146 P.S John the...

Looks good for a compact mill setting. I noticed theres no storage yard for the Coke ,taconite and limestone. The pit as the real steelies know it as, is hundreds of feet long with a ore bridge crane for charging the high line car. If you need any help with {what goes where} shoot me an...