Thanks to all for the replies on the questions, and the comments on the layout. I did some snooping around off list, and have found that the gas supplied to...
Does anyone know when Kling 75 ton hot metal cars (like the ones State Tool & Die offer) quit being used? Can I get away with using them on a layout set in...
Tim, Are those the 2 big green pipes along route 837? They look about 24" diameter. steelkid782000 <pghpen68@...> wrote: Thanks to all for the replies on...
... Teichmoeller with maps of Sparrows Point during the 2000 RRI-SIG Meet in Baltimore? -Ken L. Sorry for the slow response. No, it wasn't me and I don't know...
I recall these pipes being installed....and also being removed....many years later...they cut the pipe and capped the ends...for environmental reasons and...
Tim; Are these the open top "pots"? I don't know whether or not anyone was still using them, but USS had some strange little "pots" they used in the Mon ...
ELDEN GATWOOD
ELDEN.GATWOOD@...
Apr 1, 2004 3:31 pm
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Brian, Those are the pipes. They run parrallel to the main, and underneath the Port Perry bridge to access ET. From what my Dad has said, the pipes also use...
Elden, The 75 ton open pots from ST&D are the ones I'm asking about. I haven't seen the odd-ball ones you are describing. Wish I had, though. By the way,...
Tim; I'll look at those. Hadn't seen them. Elden ... From: steelkid782000 [mailto:pghpen68@...] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:10 AM To:...
ELDEN GATWOOD
ELDEN.GATWOOD@...
Apr 1, 2004 4:20 pm
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Tim: I have a photo and report of desulfing the cars at the Lackawanna plant into the 70's. Used for OH specialty steel. They had pig wings on them. Hope this...
Steve; Just got my TLG; NICE job on that U28B! Too bad we couldn't see all the color, but maybe you have pics elsewhere? What are you working on to get ...
ELDEN GATWOOD
ELDEN.GATWOOD@...
Apr 1, 2004 6:38 pm
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Did Duquesne and/or ET receive BOFs in the 60s. When did they begin operation and what were their capacities? What did they replace and just where were they...
Again from the 1957 Directory of Iron and Steel Works, Republic's Buffalo plant operated 2 blast furnaces, with annual capacities of 250,000 and 368,000 tons....
Tim, The kling type 75 ton hot medal cars were still in when I worked the URR hot metal runs from Rankin to OH#5 in Homestead during 1965 & 1966. Joe ... using...
I am hoping to simulate the operations of the Union RR during the late 60s and early 70s using Dispatcher2 and am trying to locate detailed info on the...
Kilng Types were in use at the USS Ohio Works in Youngstown until 1981. Rick ... From: "Joe Fetsko" <fetskojoe@...> To: <steel@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
Joe; Under what circumstances were they using those, and under what ones the big torpedoes? Elden ... From: Joe Fetsko [mailto:fetskojoe@...] Sent:...
ELDEN GATWOOD
ELDEN.GATWOOD@...
Apr 1, 2004 10:49 pm
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Interesting project - I built a modern URR for TD3 a while back. Unfortunately I never found anyone to provide with me with info on crews and traffic patterns,...
My guess is that BOF's required the larger torpedo cars and OH used the kling type cars as the size of a heat was smaller. Also pig casters didn't need 200...
Thanks, Brendan! Elden ... From: Brendan Brosnan [mailto:b.e.brosnan@...] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:35 PM To: steel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re:...
ELDEN GATWOOD
ELDEN.GATWOOD@...
Apr 1, 2004 11:36 pm
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I'm not sure that the Kling cars were used for pig casters. Every car that I've seen that was used for pig casting had "ears" that engaged lugs on the pig ...
peachcreek@...
Apr 2, 2004 12:04 am
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I may have some laying around, old post-card shots. I'll take a look and forward them to you! Brandon <pipes2120@...> wrote:My name is Brandon, im a...
... the kling type cars as the size of a heat was smaller. Also pig casters didn't need 200 tons at a time. Not necessarily true ... some of your more "modern"...
Elden, Hot metal was transported in either subs or kling cars. Trains were usually made up of either two subs or one sub and one or two kling cars. It all...
The Photos I have of the state tool / general models Kling Car have Ears on them specificly for dumping into a pig caster. This was commonpractice in the ...
Like everything else with steel mills, there is what was "general pratice" and there is the exception to the rule because somebody used what was on hand to do...
Republic decided to shut Buffalo down in 1984, after just having installed a brand new BOF Shop and relining a blast furnace at a cost of $55 million that...
Boatlandmore@...
Apr 2, 2004 2:22 am
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The clearing work last year was done in preperation for the now on going ground work for a new industrial park development. They have one factory going up asap...
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