Youtube Videos

Over the next few days I'll be uploading a few videos to Youtube that will feature steel mill themed layouts.

We start out with Neville Rossiter. He has a beautiful O scale layout with plenty of operations. in a small space for O scale layout. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JusIzKZlgdQ

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. 

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

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.

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.

Schuylkill Iron Works slag cars

Garry Lance has finished building a few of the Schuylkill Iron Work slag cars including a scratch built double pot slag car that he used 2 kits to build. Outstanding work Garry.

Photo contest

Every month we do a photo contest on Facebook to see who get there picture on the group home page. Here are a few entries from this months contest. All are great entries.

This was last months winner of the photo contest. Photo by Catherine Davis

Scott Woods scratch built 2 strand bucket coal unloader at Duquesne.

 Koppers Sinter Plant built by Dean Freytag for C Roger Camplin

Joppa Iron Works’ Alco boxcab at Furnace “A” by Michael Habersack

Blast furnace4, on Radovan Bajer layout

Peter Hess O scale furnace interior.  

Don Cameron’s layout

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

Franklin, Forge, and Gear 93 Ton ingot mold

Franklin, Forge, and Gear built an ingot transport car in HO scale. Look for the build and more information of the build in a future issue of The Mill. If anyone has information on these types of cars used to haul these types of molds please contact me at don_csx@hotmail.com.

Picture from Grace's Guide about Brightside Foundry and Engineering Co.

Picture from Getty Images

The following pictures are from Franklin, Forge, and Gear. The mold was built from 2 electric conduit couplings, the carrier for the mold was scratch built and the carrier buggies were built from 2 Athearn heavy duty flats that were shortened down.

Coke Oven model by Daniel Milcher

Daniel Milcher,  a new of the Steel Mill Modeling group share pictures of a coke oven he built in 6 months. This oven is models after a prototype that stood in his hometown in 1944 and was heavily bombed but was never rebuild. The model is roughly 6ft long and the chimney is 3ft high. All pictures are by Daniel Milchar

Steel Mill Modeling

Another new member Floris Dilz of the Steel Mill Facebook Group share some pictures of an HO scale mill. This mill has amazing details including scratch built locomotives.

Steel Mill Modeling

A new member of the Steel Mill Modeling Facebook group Heinz Helm has been showing some pictures of the HO scale steel mill he has been working on. The details of his mill are unbelievable.