Hello to all. I was wondering if Alco S-1 switchers would be suitable for use as steel mill owned switchers (specifically in the late 60's). The only reason...
Tim: The Upper Merion and Plymouth (Alan Wood Steel)used 44 tonners (? HP but less than 600)to pull a hot metal car from the Blast Furnace across the Schuykill...
Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. uses several GE 80 tonners. They also have an SW8 and an SW900 for the larger jobs. Therefore, following prototype...
Thanks Glenn and Julius. I have one S-1 and one S-2 already. The S- 1 is undec. and the S-2 is in URR paint. I am going to order at least more five S-1s. I...
Youngstown Sheet and Tube used Alco S-1s at their Brier Hill plant and some of those duties included moving hot metal cars, slag, gons, etc. They were ...
Speaking of the 660 HP, Youngstown's Indiana Harbor works had several Baldwin VO-660's, they were used as general purpose engines. I was told they had excelent...
Well, I can say the slabs are stacked everywhere at Indiana Harbor Works, steel and iron are flowing like water over a dam there. I wonder why they don't save...
I would like to thank all of you who have responded to my questions about using the S-1s in the mill. I think that I have found a solution to this particular...
Tim, Republic Steel bought a large number of SW1's, pretty much the EMD equivalent of the Alco S1, for the smaller jobs around their mills. Based on that I...
Tim...Union had S-1's, units 451-454. I have a builders photo of one of the units in black with white lettering...may have been an early one with inset...
Mr. Heggi, Because, UTLX utilizes SPECIAL grades of steel such as TC-128 and A 516 material for the specific requirements determined for railroad tank car...
The Industrial Railway Society have now started a project to place out of print issues of their magazine the "Industrial Railway Record" on the Internet. This...
... ISG Cleveland has made about 10,000 tons of slabs for Burns Harbor Plate within the last week-and-one-half. Another 15,000 tons will be produced for BH...
Greg, I am getting back to Houston and wondered if the invitation was still good? I will be arriving on Monday, June 21 and leaving on Friday, June 25. It...
We can accommodate a few more attendees for the September Steel Mill Modeler's Meet in Malvern, PA. We have our forty attendees, but we have extended the max...
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Jun 9, 2004 4:06 pm
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Please contact me off list at b.e. b r o s n a n @ c o x . n e t Brendan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
At the Buffalo, NY Railroad Industry SIG Meet, Aaron Dupont made a nice little model of a bottom fill ingot mold car using the RIX ingot buggy and some of the...
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Jun 10, 2004 10:50 pm
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Howdy guys, The plate the trumpet and ingot molds sit on has channels molded into it. There is a large one under where the trumpet sits, and runners leading to...
This weekend, from Friday through Sunday, the 1st Annual Historic and Cultural Festival will be held in Bethlehem, PA. I will be there helping the National...
... Will, Why don't you do like The Broz and make up a photo CD, then sell copies for the price of media and shipping [etc.]? I'd certainly be interested in...
Will: Thanks for the excellent info! One thing I did not understand is how do you detach the ingot from the sprue that is under the car? Best Regards, John ...
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Jun 11, 2004 3:30 pm
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... The stripper crane lifts the mold up from the ingot leaving the ingot on the car. The crane then sets down the mold and returns to the ingot and grabs...
I left the J&L in Pittsburgh in1976, where I workd in the bar mill. I spent most of time there in the billet yard. The crane repair guys were a touchy bunch....
Last week at the SIG meeting in Buffalo, I was asked if I had gone digital yet and if so what make and model I/they should get. Here is a link to a great web...
Anybody on the list going to the NMRA convention in Seattle? I would like to meet anyone on the list. I will be there and I am presenting a clinic "Steel Mill...
One more thing to consider if you plan to shoot pictures of your layout: depth-of-field. This means being able to set your at F-stop at 32 and operating in...
I purchase the Olympus digital with the 10X zoom after looking at a lot of different cameras. I made my decisoin based on several factors. 1) Im not going to...
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Jun 13, 2004 3:43 pm
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John: On the camera menu there should be "set up" setting, then a sub menu for "Format". It will then warn you that this will erase all images and you have to...
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 : /Modeling/Coke...
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