Norm: I have a "Coal Handbook" that was published by Bethlehem Steel in the early 1980s. It gives a location of all the coal mining operations that Bethlehem...
... charge had been melted. It could make thirty tons at once, rather than fifty pounds. Bessemer was knighted in 1879 and awarded a Fellowship of the Royal...
Is the By Products CD still available?? If so who do I contact about a copy?? Donald ... From: Glgpat To: STEEL@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005...
Is there any books, videos, or web sites that explain the operations of the Union Railroad?? Also need track plans to. I got a Video off eBay but it don't help...
Thanks all, for your useful comments about anthracite and steelmaking. I'll put together your posts for my personal education. Norm ... 1800's. Most all gone...
Hi! On Ebay there will be lots of UNION RR timetables, maps, prototype paper items, etc. being listed under seller name "josecuervo9" every week in roughly 100...
If the gondolas were pretty old, there was a time that J&L ferried cars back and forth between the Eliza furnaces and the converters and finishing mills on the...
Hi! To clarify the Bessemer Process, the charge went in the converter in a molten state (hot metal or molten iron) except for additives melted by the heat from...
Great idea. Since you and others have considerable knowledge of both coal and steel, I want to ask another question that no one in an anthracite coal forum...
Since they are PDF files, you can use the ROTATE button on the PDF toolbar when you open the files. Each time you hit the ROTATE button, the page rotates 90...
Hi! BC= Bessemer Converter BOF= Basic Oxygen Furnace B Fce= Blast Furnace Coke in B Fce is fuel that melts the iron ore/pellets that are the molten iron...
Its all strip mining now and they located thru out Schulykill, Carbon, Columbia and Lackawanna Counties PA. I'm sure ther are more. Eric Craig ... From: Norm...
There are two Blast Furnaces left at ET and they have a Basic Oxygen Furnace but US Steel refers to it as a BOP (Basic Oxygen Process) shop. Brandon Wehe (the...
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Any one got any pictures of a BOF. Is there a coke plant located there or is it shipped in?? Don ... From: WeheB To: STEEL@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...
Hello! Included is a coke breeze/screen process shop....dual strand continuous caster...slab mill...loco shop...scrap bay with two cranes....scrap yard...I...
Don, One of the best currently available sources is Richard Borkowski's book "Union Railroad in color" published by Morning Sun Books. There are others like...
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Coke comes from Clairton! ... From: Donald Dunn To: STEEL@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:28 PM Subject: Re: [STEEL] US Steel Edgar Thompson...
Donald, Yes, it is still available. Send $3 to: Pat Wilkinson 6 Kingston Court Bedford, Texas 76022 And for the rest of you that have sent your money, I had...
Hello all, Does anyone have photos of Deans kit-bashed mill vehicles ? While reading his book {Making and modeling steel} and MR Nov 2003 . I came across one...
Hi! Don't know about coal but old previously mined iron ore is sometimes sold later; Birmingham District Red Mountain Iron Ore goes in small lots for paint...
could i also get a picture too igoldberg20032003 <igoldberg@...> wrote:I have a good picture of the BOF at Edgar thompson. Please send me your email...
DEAR IRA COULD YOU PLEASE SEND ME THAT PICTURE ALSO. EMAIL IS GTPD62YAHOO.COM. THANKS VERY MUCH.TODD igoldberg20032003 <igoldberg@...> wrote: I have a...