Dear James , Thanx for adding me to your group. I am a business man and Import and Export Steel Related things. We are mainly buy Scrap HMS 1 & 2, Flat Rolled...
Does anyone know how A) coke and B) coil steel was carried in the late 40's, early 50's? What type of cars? Also, does anyone have any information on Armco's...
Hi Group, coke was probably carried in regular open top hoppers. Bowser has special PRR hoppers made for that service. Plus loads to fit. There is an old dated...
couldnt find any info sofar but did find this Click here: KY:Historical Society - Historical Marker Database - Search for Markers Amanda Furnace (Marker...
also found: (more markers presented by Armco Steel Corp also listed at websight) Ashland (Marker Number: 1211) County: Boyd Location: Greenup Ave. at 17th St.,...
Guys: Two questions: Does an electric furnace produce any slag and has any mill used slag pots, rail or Kress to move it? Do all electric furnaces have the...
Electric arcs do produce slag. Sydney Steel used slag pots and a carrier (I assume it was a Kress) until they closed down about 2 years ago. Both of their...
Brendan In answer to your questions. Electric furnaces produce very little, it any slag. What there is is poured into very small slag pots located under the...
Brendan, Chapparal Steel in Midlothian, Texas uses their own locos to move their cars around. I believe that they have some slag pots out there, I think I...
Hi Group, the Crucible Steel Mill in Midland PA (now J & L Speciality Steel) had the continous caster in the same building as the Electric Furnaces. Jim Mullen...
Unfortunately for modelers, part of the reason the mini mills are so efficient is that they are designed not to need things like hot metal trains and the extra...
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Brendan, You could operate like Lukens and pour ingots. They run the ingots stacked on heavy flats to their rolling mills across the highway. Or operate...
Hi Guys! At Lukens Steel we saw a foamy slag practise application in which fairly large quantities of lime were delivered into the EAF thru a hand held hose to...
Guys I have listed some of Brandon Wehe castings on ebay (Scrap bucket, Charging Ladle and Teeming Ladle). Search under Steel Mill Detail Parts Brendan ...
Brendan, The one shop that I've observed taps the steel from the EAF directly in to a ladle. The ladle is picked up and placed in a ladle car (not sure of the...
I've decided to scratch build a 3 BOF shop (space permitting). I am wondering what kinds of modeler's license decisions were made by those who did the same...
Brendan can you supply more info ? I get 0 results Oredox Dave Zarth ... From: Brendan Brosnan [mailto:b.e.brosnan@...] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 5:26...
Brian, Back in 1998 I built a 1-vessel BOF facility (didn't have enough real estate for more than that!<g>) by stringing together two Walthers EAF buildings,...
If I remember correctly, Rouge Steel had EAF, BOF and Caster all in separate buildings. Tim Clark Redford Model Railroad Club 793 Pinehurst Canton, MI 48188 ...
Hi, my name is Larry Koran and I'm new to the group. I live in Oak Ridge TN. I'm like to say that I'm from Wisconsin since that is where I completed high...
I think the Rouge caster IS in the same building as their BOF, I saw it during the RRISIG tour in May 2003. The slab reheater and rolling mill are on the...
Rouge's electric furnace building had most of the equipment removed when we toured it. I don't know if the caster was located in that building or not?...
... Yes an EAF does produce slag. It is not the same chemical composition as Blast Furnace slag, but it is still suitable as a substitute for gravel in ...
Ken, Nice work. I started looking at some approx. dimensions for a 3 vessel shop and found that it will be over 7 feet long. This includes an indoor scrap...
The Electric furnaces (2) are in a seprated building. Unknown how they transfered the steel, think they were still teaming ingots when electric furnace was in...
I see the Gt Lakes Works of USS has scraped their Great Lakes Steel , GLSX 4004 covered hopper. Many years ago they had at least two coverewd hoppers to haul...
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