01-10-2009, 03:57 PM
Well, I have a tax refund burning a hole in my pocket... and a 2' x 12' unfinished section of my layout, so i decided to go nuts and have pre-ordered ALL the buildings in the Walthers Ashland Steel series!!!
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The series includes a blast furnace, rolling mill, coke oven, blower engine house and Hulett unloader. There are also 3-packs of slag cars, bottle cars, and ore cars.
I have always loved the blast furnace, but because there was never a steel mill in the area I'm modelling (Toronto circa 1956), I thought it would be wrong for my layout. But then I got to thinking -- there's nothing totally accurate on my layout anyway. I'm playing fast and loose with the locations of things, the configuration of the yard, and so on. So why deprive myself of a potentially awesome scene? Why not let that section represent Stelco in Hamilton?
Another thing is that layout progress has been stalled for months now, and I think this is just the sort of exciting project to inspire me to start working on it again. And now I'm really glad that I never finished the track laying in that section - maybe this is why!!!
cheers
Val
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The series includes a blast furnace, rolling mill, coke oven, blower engine house and Hulett unloader. There are also 3-packs of slag cars, bottle cars, and ore cars.
I have always loved the blast furnace, but because there was never a steel mill in the area I'm modelling (Toronto circa 1956), I thought it would be wrong for my layout. But then I got to thinking -- there's nothing totally accurate on my layout anyway. I'm playing fast and loose with the locations of things, the configuration of the yard, and so on. So why deprive myself of a potentially awesome scene? Why not let that section represent Stelco in Hamilton?
Another thing is that layout progress has been stalled for months now, and I think this is just the sort of exciting project to inspire me to start working on it again. And now I'm really glad that I never finished the track laying in that section - maybe this is why!!!
cheers
Val