Hot metal car was loaded from New Miami in May 11, 1985. Picture by Brad McClelland.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
January 1st issues delayed
Due to a hardware crash on my pc the January 1st issue of The Mill will be delayed for a week. Apologize for the delay.
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from our family at The Mill to your families. Hope each and everyone has a Blessed Christmas.
Monday, December 23, 2019
US Steel is closing a Detroit-area steel mill and laying off 1,500 workers
US Steel is closing a Detroit-area steel mill and laying off 1,500 workers
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/business/us-steel-mill-closing/index.html
Monday, November 25, 2019
(For Sale) Steel Mill Railroads in Color.
(For Sale) Steel Mill Railroads in Color. Asking $45 each plus $10 shipping. Anyone interested please contact Jeffrery Damerst at shawmutcarshops@yahoo.com.
Vol 1 Steel Mill Railroads in Color
Vol 2 Steel Mill Railroads in Color
Vol 3 Steel Mill Railroads in Color top of dust cover on the spline has a nick in it
Vol 4 Steel Mill Railroads in Color
Vol 5 Steel Mill Railroads in Color
Vol 6 Steel Mill Railroads in Color - Southern Style Thomas Lawson & Stephen Timko
Vol 7 Steel Mill Railroads in Color
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
New Ingot Transfer car from Steel Mill Modeler Supply.
Kevin Tully, of Steel Mill Modeling Supply has been working on this 3D printed Ingot Transfer car. It is modeled after the Lehigh Heavy Forge in Bethlehem, PA. This is the first print of the car and I must say it looks great. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.
Saying goodbye to a grand lady
By MARK MAYNARD, Kentucky Today
A century-old friend to northeastern Kentucky took her last breath Monday morning.
She went quietly, hardly without a whimper. If not for some Facebook posts, we may have never known. We knew the end was close though. She was fading for a long time, but back about four years ago, they all but told us she was not going to make it much longer.
But, boy, was she ever awesome. In her heyday, she was the toast of town and even did her part in the war effort. Everybody was watching her and marveled at how she did everything so well, how she provided for so many in her community.
She had steel-blue eyes and looked healthier than a big oak tree. She was, well, majestic.
We never saw this day coming back then, not way back in 1954, when she was at her ever-loving best. Man, did she ever shine brightly in those days. Her reflection, so shiny, was all over the place, towering over a community built around her power. People knew her name up and down the mighty Ohio River. She commanded respect and got it.
Fifty-five years later, though, she was a shell of herself, no longer able to produce like she did before, no longer the giant and mostly empty inside, her fire nearly extinguished for good. The shine wasn’t there anymore. No amount of makeup could take away the rust. She was fading, gasping really, with each passing day and we all knew it, but there was nothing we could do but watch and wait. We were remembering her for the good ‘ol days, when she was the hope of the community, the shining star, the best there ever was.
We started eulogizing her before she was even gone because, well, we knew it was coming even if we didn’t want to believe us. They told us as much as far back as the 1990s or at least they tried to tell us. We refused to believe it was true because our rock could not be broken. Not completely. Could it?
There were some futile efforts to prop her up as much as 30 years ago, but they weren’t going to save her from this fatal disease. We all knew it.
We might as well have started making her tombstone back then, but it hurt too much. After all, she was our friend and she did so much for us. Even while she was choking out her last breath, we were hoping beyond hope that something could save her. But it wasn’t to be.
Time had a way of tarnishing her image from that shining star of the 1950s. There were still decades of beauty inside her even it if wasn’t as magnificent as before. She stayed in good shape, always being a rock in the community, always being what they counted on in northeastern Kentucky, always providing.
That’s how she was really. She was a rock and proud.
Even as a young girl, she was a superstar waiting to happen, surpassing expectation during an advancing time. She was an original, a one-of-a-kind, and she was ours. For decades, she gave us all she could. She even let the boys play football (those Armcos and Tomcats were fun to watch) and baseball (she was partial to the Dodgers and Yankees, that Joe DiMaggio was something else!) in her yard when she was a young girl in the 1930s and 1940s.
We will make it without her because we have no other choice.
But on Monday, she died. We can add the date to the tombstone.
The last operating portion of the AK Steel Mill Ashland Works plant was the coating line. It produced its final coil a little after 10 a.m. Monday and that was that.
She was gone.
Ashland will never be the same.
MARK MAYNARD is managing editor of Kentucky Today. Reach him at mark.maynard@kentuckytoday.com
Link from Kentucky Today, Article By Mark Maynard
A century-old friend to northeastern Kentucky took her last breath Monday morning.
She went quietly, hardly without a whimper. If not for some Facebook posts, we may have never known. We knew the end was close though. She was fading for a long time, but back about four years ago, they all but told us she was not going to make it much longer.
But, boy, was she ever awesome. In her heyday, she was the toast of town and even did her part in the war effort. Everybody was watching her and marveled at how she did everything so well, how she provided for so many in her community.
She had steel-blue eyes and looked healthier than a big oak tree. She was, well, majestic.
We never saw this day coming back then, not way back in 1954, when she was at her ever-loving best. Man, did she ever shine brightly in those days. Her reflection, so shiny, was all over the place, towering over a community built around her power. People knew her name up and down the mighty Ohio River. She commanded respect and got it.
Fifty-five years later, though, she was a shell of herself, no longer able to produce like she did before, no longer the giant and mostly empty inside, her fire nearly extinguished for good. The shine wasn’t there anymore. No amount of makeup could take away the rust. She was fading, gasping really, with each passing day and we all knew it, but there was nothing we could do but watch and wait. We were remembering her for the good ‘ol days, when she was the hope of the community, the shining star, the best there ever was.
We started eulogizing her before she was even gone because, well, we knew it was coming even if we didn’t want to believe us. They told us as much as far back as the 1990s or at least they tried to tell us. We refused to believe it was true because our rock could not be broken. Not completely. Could it?
There were some futile efforts to prop her up as much as 30 years ago, but they weren’t going to save her from this fatal disease. We all knew it.
We might as well have started making her tombstone back then, but it hurt too much. After all, she was our friend and she did so much for us. Even while she was choking out her last breath, we were hoping beyond hope that something could save her. But it wasn’t to be.
Time had a way of tarnishing her image from that shining star of the 1950s. There were still decades of beauty inside her even it if wasn’t as magnificent as before. She stayed in good shape, always being a rock in the community, always being what they counted on in northeastern Kentucky, always providing.
That’s how she was really. She was a rock and proud.
Even as a young girl, she was a superstar waiting to happen, surpassing expectation during an advancing time. She was an original, a one-of-a-kind, and she was ours. For decades, she gave us all she could. She even let the boys play football (those Armcos and Tomcats were fun to watch) and baseball (she was partial to the Dodgers and Yankees, that Joe DiMaggio was something else!) in her yard when she was a young girl in the 1930s and 1940s.
We will make it without her because we have no other choice.
But on Monday, she died. We can add the date to the tombstone.
The last operating portion of the AK Steel Mill Ashland Works plant was the coating line. It produced its final coil a little after 10 a.m. Monday and that was that.
She was gone.
Ashland will never be the same.
MARK MAYNARD is managing editor of Kentucky Today. Reach him at mark.maynard@kentuckytoday.com
Link from Kentucky Today, Article By Mark Maynard
Monday, September 30, 2019
The Mill October 2019 Volume 3 Number 4
Volume 3 Number 4 of The Mill Newsletter is ready for download. Any questions or problems with the download please send them to don_csx@hotmail.com
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Blast furnace demolished at steel mill in Maryland - video
A blast furnace is demolished at the Bethlehem steel mill near Baltimore on Wednesday, as part of a demolition effort.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/jan/28/blast-furnace-demolished-explosion-mill-maryland-video
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/jan/28/blast-furnace-demolished-explosion-mill-maryland-video
Friday, July 12, 2019
Walthers Reissues Steel Mill Buildings and Equipment in 2020
Walthers Reissues Steel Mill Buildings and equipment in HO scale in 2020
https://www.walthers.com/catalog/category/view/id/19101
https://www.walthers.com/catalog/category/view/id/19101
Monday, July 1, 2019
The Mill Volume 3 Issue 3
The Mill Volume 3 Issue 3 is ready for download.
Any problems downloading contact Don Dunn at: don_csx@hotmail.com
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
British Steel collapses, threatening thousands of jobs
British Steel collapses, threatening thousands of jobs
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/british-steel-collapses-threatening-thousands-of-jobs/ar-AABJuGM?ocid=ientp
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/british-steel-collapses-threatening-thousands-of-jobs/ar-AABJuGM?ocid=ientp
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Valhalla Iron & Forge lowboy
Our friends at Valhalla Iron & Forge recently acquired a heavy duty lowboy to assist in moving equipment, ladles and cast around in there mill. This is a beast of a hauler.
The lowboy started out as a HO Walthers/Kibri Terex quarry truck. Before final assembly, the back tandems wheels were resin cast for use on the lowboy. The lowboy started with and old computer part shaped like a lowboy gooseneck. Having built the lowboy trailer from the gooseneck back.
The lowboy started out as a HO Walthers/Kibri Terex quarry truck. Before final assembly, the back tandems wheels were resin cast for use on the lowboy. The lowboy started with and old computer part shaped like a lowboy gooseneck. Having built the lowboy trailer from the gooseneck back.
Monday, May 20, 2019
Train and Railroader of he Past
This is the first time I seen this magazine. I has an interested article of the Union Railroad and they B&LE Railroad.
Model Railroader June 2019
Model Railroader June 2019 has an article on a 11 x 13 HO scale Steel Mill layout that. Kep an look out for in at you local book store or hobby shop.
Shuttered steelmaker’s 21-story headquarters implodes
Shuttered steelmaker’s 21-story headquarters implodes
https://nypost.com/2019/05/19/shuttered-steelmakers-21-story-headquarters-implodes/
https://nypost.com/2019/05/19/shuttered-steelmakers-21-story-headquarters-implodes/
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
The Journal
The Spring 2019 Volume 6 Number 2 of the Steel Mill Modeling SIG's, The Journal, is available. In this issue, is a great article by David Moltrup on his basic oxygen furnace that Dean Freytag built for him. Also Dave explains how one can go about building there own large mill buildings. This is another great issue from the SIG. If you are a member of the SMMSIG be on the look out for this issue in the mail.
If you would like to become a member of the SMMSIG follow this link for information about the SIG and information on how to join. https://smmsig.org/
If you would like to become a member of the SMMSIG follow this link for information about the SIG and information on how to join. https://smmsig.org/
Friday, May 3, 2019
U.S. Steel Is Investing $1 Billion to Transform Mon Valley Works Near Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Is Investing $1 Billion to Transform Mon Valley Works Near Pittsburgh
http://americanmanufacturing.org/blog/entry/u.s.-steel-is-investing-1-billion-in-mon-valley-works-outside-pittsburgh?fbclid=IwAR1kJmecdaAi3yrGNNdn-5M2yU0aaYskm_CYcqGngKbjOGvZ7xfsCbGsndY
http://americanmanufacturing.org/blog/entry/u.s.-steel-is-investing-1-billion-in-mon-valley-works-outside-pittsburgh?fbclid=IwAR1kJmecdaAi3yrGNNdn-5M2yU0aaYskm_CYcqGngKbjOGvZ7xfsCbGsndY
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Happy Easter
Happy Easter to everyone. I hope each and everyone of you guys have a blessed day with your family and friends.
Take Care, Stay Safe, Happy Modeling and God Bless you all.
Take Care, Stay Safe, Happy Modeling and God Bless you all.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Monday, April 1, 2019
The Mill Volume 3 Number 2
The Mill Volume 3 Number 2 is ready for downloading. If there are in questions or problems please message me.
http://www.smm.stahlbahn.de/themillvol3num2.pdf
Take Care, Stay Safe, Happy Modeling and God Bless
http://www.smm.stahlbahn.de/themillvol3num2.pdf
Take Care, Stay Safe, Happy Modeling and God Bless
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Monday, February 4, 2019
Steel Mill Modeler Journal
This issue of the Steel Mill Modelers Journal is out. It is loaded with more great article including some great shot of Scott Wood's Union RR & BLE layout.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
AK Steel To close Ashland works
AK Steel announced on Monday that it plans to close the largely idled Ashland Works facility by the end of 2019. Click here for complete article.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
The Mill Volume 3 Number 1
Happy New Years to everyone. Hope everyone has a blessed 2019
The Mill Volume 3 Number 1 is ready for downloading. If there are in questions or problems please message me.
http://www.smm.stahlbahn.de/themillvol3num1.pdf
Take Care, Stay Safe, Happy Modeling and God Bless
The Mill Volume 3 Number 1 is ready for downloading. If there are in questions or problems please message me.
http://www.smm.stahlbahn.de/themillvol3num1.pdf
Take Care, Stay Safe, Happy Modeling and God Bless
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