The Mill Newsletter Volume 2 Number 2 and Steel Mill Modeling Catalog

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The Mill Newsletter Volume 2 Number 2

http://www.smm.stahlbahn.de/themillvol2num2.pdf

Steel Mill Modeling Catalog

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

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

Schuylkill Ironworks is offering steel mill cars.

The Schuylkill Ironworks is offering several steel mill cars for purchase, and they are made exclusively for us by Funaro and Camerlengo. The first car is a Treadwell slag car for $29.00. Next are three versions of the Pacific Car and Foundry flat car, the riveted deck, the rail deck and the I beam deck cars, and they are $24 each. Mix and match for shipping, one to three cars for $7.12 and four to ten cars for $9.50. You can PayPal us at eacraig@gmail.com or send a check to Eric Craig, PO Box 3678, Reading PA 19606

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ATI Investing $95M in Isothermal Forging Capacity

Allegheny Technologies Inc. directors approved a $95-million capital investment project to expand the isothermal forging and heat-treating capacities in Cudahy, WI, to address growing demand from the aerospace jet engine market. The three-year project will establish ATI’s fourth isothermal press at that location, which ATI acquired in 2011 as part of its takeover of Ladish Co. Inc. (Brooks, R, March 22, 2018, Forging Magazine, Forging)(Retrieved from http://www.forgingmagazine.com/forming/ati-investing-95m-isothermal-forging-capacity?NL=FORG-01&Issue=FORG-01_20180404_FORG-01_202&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_3&utm_rid=CPG03000003596575&utm_campaign=25783&utm_medium=email&elq2=49ebf750404847ff95ee3a7131707d3c)

Last Active Open-Hearth Furnace Tapped For Last Time.

The last active open-hearth furnace in OMK Vyksa steelworks (Russia) was tapped for the very last time. The furnace was commissioned in 1933.

https://www.viktormacha.com/galerie/vmz-vyksa-342/

The Mill Newsletter (Dean Freytag Issue)

There are plans on doing a special issue of The Mill with pictures of Dean Freytag's layout. This issues will be different from all the other issues the released dated is undetermined.

Right now I have a couple sources for pictures but I'm looking for this to be a joint effort with anyone who wants to contribute. So I ask anyone and everyone here if you have pictures or know of anyone that has pictures of Dean Freytag's layout that is willing to have them shared please have them contact me.

If anyone who has a story they would like to share that they have with Dean that they would consider having put in this issues, please send it.

This issue will also include a list of all articles, other publication, and videos that Dean did.

I'm also looking for any and all suggestion on this issue.

This issue will be a free PDF download to anyone that wants a copy once it is completed.

My email is don_csx@hotmail.com

Take Care, Stay Safe and God Bless

Grandt Line Products is closing after 60 years

Sad to hear but Grandt Line Products is closing after 60 years. 

Grandt Line Products

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