Sorry for the goof on Station Square - I was flipping through a catalog looking to buy some blueprints of some old Pennsy engines and had Pennsy on my mind. I...
Well, I work at what's left of Youngstown Sheet and Tube in Indiana Harbor. I've been thru the locomotive shop and talked to they two guys there. They tell me...
Well Mike if the strobes are out maybe you should fault those guys in the loco shop.Ever try running those things?Ain't easy McGee. As far as the flare on a...
At Gary the only place that in plant train air was used was on the hi-line coke. The mill engines had no train air. The "J" pushed the hi-line with 2 units and...
In a message dated 3/1/2004 5:50:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... I talked to a hobby shop and they told me to buy the Preiser figures of firefighters in...
Also, measured drawings of the 12000 ton press can be found on the HAER web site. HAER has a lot of information that can help fill in the gaps in our constant...
ISG's New policy is to flair crossings when in the area. It's a knee jerk reation to a few recent accidents at crossings. Signage is poor, but that shop has...
Good deal - I saw that some one else posted the same thing so I'll have to check those out. thanks for the tip! Binderchk@... wrote: I talked to a hobby...
... Dear Jeff and Group, I did mean 2001, insofar as the last date on which Acme Steel operated its coke ovens and blast furnace. I stand corrected. It was ...
Those wouldn't be old Inland fces would they? When did Inland shut down? "James E. Humbert" <hiballhum@...> wrote:> ... Dear Jeff and Group, I did mean...
... The furnace you are asking about is very old, built in the late 1800's, probably about 1885 based on conversations we had with management. It had a single...
Yes they were the former Inland Steel. They were stil operating when I moved south in 1980, but were in deep financial trouble. My guess is they shut down in...
Thought so -- I amy have some drawings. My dad worked for Wean-United, they did some dismantling work up there ca. 1982. b.e.brosnan@... wrote:Yes they...
Jim: Thanks for the info. I am in N scale so I am lookingfor the N bottle, slag and ingot cars. Ira ... and confidential and thus protected from disclosure....
He is a link to the American Society of mechanical engineers website 6 page article about the story of the 60 ton BOP furnace displayed out in front of the...
We have the picture of the new (due late 2004) Trix 8 truck 268 ton bottle car on our web page. This is not the same car as the DCC controlled German car. ...
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Mar 3, 2004 4:45 pm
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... Strange name - it sounds as if it might be Afrikaans (South African)! Brian Rumary, England http://freespace.virgin.net/brian.rumary/homepage.htm...
James Just a good Dutch name . many immigrants from Holland settled in small communities south of Chicago (Lansing,South Holland etc.). It was originly...
... Strange name - it sounds as if it might be Afrikaans (South African)! Brian Rumary, England http://freespace.virgin.net/brian.rumary/homepage.htm...
Brian, Both of these are part of the US Library of Congress. HAER is the Historic American Engineering Record, HABS is the Historic American Buildings You can...
That's the Historical American Engineering Record. You can access it through the Library of Congress web site. I've recently printed some of the drawings to...
Hi Jim, A number of projects have sidetracked me from continuing the heavy industry modeling series. But I have a box with about $500 worth of Plastruct in it ...
Dean has been working on a model of a sinter plant for some time and he has been assisted by David Moltrop. We have a picture on our web page. ...
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Mar 4, 2004 12:42 pm
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Morning guys, Have been with the group for a while and just now getting the where I and able to start a steel mill on my layout. So where do I need to start? I...
Donald: Congratulations on getting started! You ask where to start. Here are a few suggestions. 1) Join the RR Industry SIG. This is a group interested in...
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