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Re: Steel Industry
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:37:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Kai Brodersen writes:
> I was working on my HO model railroad yesterday when a thought came into
> mind. Steel Industry. As large as a steel plant is, it would be a
> marvelous model with a huge amount of space and bricks required.
> Has anyone actually modeled a steel plant with all of its componenets(
> i work on my HO to much) The coke ovens(coke is the product when one burning
> coal with out any oxygen) , the blast furnace, electric furnace, rolling
> mills, ore yard, coke cars, slag cars, hot metal cars...... and this list
> goes on.
> I will be attempting to build one for the upcoming train show MICHLTC is
> attending. I just wanted to know if anyone has done it before.
> thanks
> kai
I cannot think that anyone has. I don't have the area to do even a decent
impression of one (esp. not with everything else I have :). I do have a
working coal unloader (that might help), and I guess if you have HO models, you
have photos from the Walters steelmill (although I don't know how big it
was...still...
You could fill a decent sized lot with a Lego scale steelmill. At even 1-35th,
it would be huge! I know my port is nothing small (about 16 sq. ft), but it
would be absolotely dwarfed by a decent scale steel mill-even with MASSIVE
compression.
(For some ideas, my coal mine occupies about 4x2 ft space, and is
multi-leveled, the container yard is 7x2, and the port is about 4x4 ft-much
undersize)
James
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| (...) Well the Blast furnace as a HO model is about 27 1/2" by 10 1/4". So since lego is about O, and HO is half of O. Just the blast furnace would measure 4 by 2 feet(27x2 by 10x2) THATS BIG, and thats just one component of the whole shabang! Well (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I was working on my HO model railroad yesterday when a thought came into mind. Steel Industry. As large as a steel plant is, it would be a marvelous model with a huge amount of space and bricks required. Has anyone actually modeled a steel plant (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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