The Mill Newsletter Volume 2 Number 3

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The Mill Newsletter Volume 2 Number 3

http://www.smm.stahlbahn.de/themillvol2num3.pdf

Members lost.

The modeling and rail fanning community have lost 2 members.

Alex Ross was found deceased 06/24. Alex lived in Brazil a few people may have known Alex from his video series Trains & Railways of Brazil. A lot of his videos had footage of iron ore trains that ran in Brazil. RIP Alex, you will be missed.

Russell Campbell passed away on Saturday, June 16. He was a great modeler and well known to many for his HO scale Campbell Valley and Ohio R.R. Russell will be truly missed in the modeling community. RIP Russell. 

The Mill Tribute to Dean Freytag

The tribute issue of The Mill to Dean Freytag is slowly coming along. Here is a cover shot of this issue. If anyone with pictures of Dean's layout still wants to contribute to this issue please do. Thanks

Take Care, Stay Safe, Happy Modeling and God Bless.

Steel Mill Bridge over Ohio River at Steubenville, OH

Here is an interesting write up on the bridge that connected blast furnaces #1 and #2 in Steubenville, OH of the Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Company to their coke plant in Coketown, WV. The write up is from the Industrial History Blog. Enjoy

Steel Mill Bridge over Ohio River at Steubenville, OH

The picture is from the article on the Industrial History Blog

Take Care, Stay Safe, Happy Modeling and God Bless

Don Cameron’s layout

Mill buildings that were built for Don Cameron’s layout by Garry Lance. They are made completely out of resin.

US Steel To Add 300 Jobs, Restart Second Blast Furnace Plant

The company said Tuesday that it’s restarting the second of two blast furnaces at its plant in Granite City, Illinois, near St. Louis. It will bring on 300 workers to support the effort.

The company previously announced it would reopen the first furnace at the facility, a move that would create 500 positions to be filled by new and returning employees.(Retrieved from https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/06/06/us-steel-to-add-300-jobs-restart-second-blast-furnace-plant/)