01-13-2009, 01:25 PM
Josh, if you want smaller structures for a steel mill complex, here are some suggestions from the plant where I worked. Locomotive shop, for loco repairs - our's did complete rebuilds, with some components sent out - plenty of opportunities for some good scenes.
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Also, car repair shop - most integrated steel mills (ones that take raw materials and produce finished or semi-finished steel) have enormous fleets of in-plant cars - think hundreds of ingot buggies, scrap gondolas, ladle cars, torpedo cars, hoppers, and flats. Most of these are not equipped with brakes, but road cars (Stelco owned several chemical tank cars for transporting coke-oven by-products to various customers) have to meet all requirements for interchange.
Also, a diesel repair shop, for the plant's fleet of mobile cranes, dump trucks, scrapers, bulldozers, loaders, and generators.
A carpenter shop - the carpentry department built scaffolding, falsework for brick construction, and forms for concrete work, and also made tables and benches, etc. for lunch rooms and change rooms.
An in-plant canteen, where workers can eat or get take-out food. We had 5 or 6 of them.
A building for brick storage - the furnaces, stoves, soaking pits and re-heating furnaces are all lined with refractory brick of various types, and are being constantly re-built.
A machine shop for turning bearings, making repair parts for in-plant machinery, etc.
A pattern shop - most plants cast many of the repair parts for the heavy machinery they used, and there was a separate department just for making the patterns.
Roll shop - for turning (on a large lathe) the rolls used in forming the slabs into plates, sheets, and coils.
Motor shop - this shop rebuilt and serviced the thousands of motors used to turn the work rolls mentioned above, but also the roller lines, cranes, ingot delivery buggies, and car pushers.
Stores Department - everything from paper clips and office supplies to lubricating oils, safety boots, gloves and hardhats, soap, you name it.
Blacksmith shop - in addition to repairing various items, this shop fabricated the bars, hooks, hammers, and other tools peculiar to the steel industry.
Fabricating shop - the fab shop did all sorts of metal work around the plant, from re-roofing a building to making duct work, railings and steps, machine guards, you name it, they'd build it.
Pump house and water treatment plant - steel plants consume an enormous amount of water - while much of it doesn't have to be potable, it does have to be free of most sediment and debris - a blast furnace, in addition to being lined with refractory brick several feet thick, is also covered in a jacket of water cooled castings, and all rolling mills use water to cool the rolls and to carry away scale and scrap. The mould of a continuous cast is water cooled, too.
There are more than this, too, but this should help you to fill up some of those smaller pockets of empty real estate.
Wayne
Also, car repair shop - most integrated steel mills (ones that take raw materials and produce finished or semi-finished steel) have enormous fleets of in-plant cars - think hundreds of ingot buggies, scrap gondolas, ladle cars, torpedo cars, hoppers, and flats. Most of these are not equipped with brakes, but road cars (Stelco owned several chemical tank cars for transporting coke-oven by-products to various customers) have to meet all requirements for interchange.
Also, a diesel repair shop, for the plant's fleet of mobile cranes, dump trucks, scrapers, bulldozers, loaders, and generators.
A carpenter shop - the carpentry department built scaffolding, falsework for brick construction, and forms for concrete work, and also made tables and benches, etc. for lunch rooms and change rooms.
An in-plant canteen, where workers can eat or get take-out food. We had 5 or 6 of them.
A building for brick storage - the furnaces, stoves, soaking pits and re-heating furnaces are all lined with refractory brick of various types, and are being constantly re-built.
A machine shop for turning bearings, making repair parts for in-plant machinery, etc.
A pattern shop - most plants cast many of the repair parts for the heavy machinery they used, and there was a separate department just for making the patterns.
Roll shop - for turning (on a large lathe) the rolls used in forming the slabs into plates, sheets, and coils.
Motor shop - this shop rebuilt and serviced the thousands of motors used to turn the work rolls mentioned above, but also the roller lines, cranes, ingot delivery buggies, and car pushers.
Stores Department - everything from paper clips and office supplies to lubricating oils, safety boots, gloves and hardhats, soap, you name it.
Blacksmith shop - in addition to repairing various items, this shop fabricated the bars, hooks, hammers, and other tools peculiar to the steel industry.
Fabricating shop - the fab shop did all sorts of metal work around the plant, from re-roofing a building to making duct work, railings and steps, machine guards, you name it, they'd build it.
Pump house and water treatment plant - steel plants consume an enormous amount of water - while much of it doesn't have to be potable, it does have to be free of most sediment and debris - a blast furnace, in addition to being lined with refractory brick several feet thick, is also covered in a jacket of water cooled castings, and all rolling mills use water to cool the rolls and to carry away scale and scrap. The mould of a continuous cast is water cooled, too.
There are more than this, too, but this should help you to fill up some of those smaller pockets of empty real estate.
Wayne