For those who don't allready know. The Prototyope Modelers meet is Friday 11th and Saturday 12th in Monroeville. On Sunday 13th the Yough Central RR club has a...
Can anyone on the list give me the real scooby on SteelPro?. Some of the CSX coil car hoods have this word stenciled on them. I understand that there is some...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STEEL group. File :...
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Mar 1, 2005 11:42 pm
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Good Day! Mike Garvey from Pensacola FL here. My dad sailed the Great Lakes for over 50 mostly for the Hanna Mining Co. I grew up on the docks and beaches at...
Scott, RevBob, and all interested; I did a little research between Scott's request, comp crash and now, and wanted to pass on the following: Jan. 1964 Roster ...
Hi all! My name is Jerry Fangel, a former Minnesotan retired in Kentucky. Myself and several others model Iron Ore,,,DMIR, LS&I, Soo, GN, CN, Milw, CNW, NP...
Don, Let me know if you get this. Scott ... __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web ...
I just posted 2 pictures of some bottle cars I made. I am putting them on Ebay and wanted to offer them to the group first. I have 1 completed car (weathered...
Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs) work by charging the particles in the gas stream forcing them out of the stream and on to collection plates. Once these...
Power plants have HUGE electrostatic precipitators. I used to water-blast them clean when I was younger and stronger! They were so big a company came in ahead...
Were there people in the hard hats? Or was it just the hard hats I understand if you get cycled through a Dorr thickener you can really get your S--- together!...
Hi Jerry. Welcome to the group. As a Minnesotan, I wonder if you can help clarify the difference in color between iron ore and taconite. I have never seen...
Thanks, Bob, What are the control efficiencies like with the ESP's? What is the maintenance schedule like with the ESP? The industries that I work with...
In the early 1950's, Homestead, at OH#5, experimented with some South American ores in anticipation of the then under construction Fairless Works near...
Hi! The Wenonah Ore Conditioning Plant of TCI & RR CO/USS processed lots of Venezuelan ore in the 1950s---it was orange/red in color and remenants are still...
Hi! My best ESP story involves one on a steam power plant smoke stack assembly; little hammers beat on the plates to shake down the captured particulates into...
Hello. Just curious, are there other people who like me have caught the bug to model (at least) steel mill rolling stock in N scale? From what I see, most...
... I've often thought about doing a small switching layout based on Gary Works with EJ&E. I've got my EJ&E switchers, but that's about it. :-) Before I was ...
Hi! I still have some interest and some goodies in N! You can contact me off net at 8307570292 Dale ... Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective:...
I had a chance to haul many thousands of tons of ore on the Lakes, Most Taconite pellets had a mettallic dark gray tone, some an almost Blue-Gray or cold gray...
<<The shiny stuff is Specular Hematite, or Specularite, it has a high silver sparkling sheen to it. Some of the stuff shipped in from South America was of...
We hauled Raw Specular Hematite from Labrador, Quebec, for Burns Harbor, A lot of it was shipped from the marquette Range in Michigan in earlier times, The...
I'm, as they say, in the business. Here's a brief description of iron ore colors from Minnesota and Michigan. Natural iron ore, the ore that was dug in the...
Bruce E. Kettunen
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Mar 4, 2005 3:19 pm
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What would be the average iron content of the hematite? Rick ... From: "dtrrman1" <msd1955@...> To: <STEEL@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 04,...
Hematite will always streak red on a white porcelan streak plate no matter what its appearance is, magnetite will streak dark gray or dark silver. Most of the...
An ESP is very good at picking up particulates and can function at relatively elevated temperatures compared to baghouses. It will not pick up SO2 like a...
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