Just joined and wanted to post a couple pictures of my layout and introduce myself. My name is Don Dunn been modeling for about 26 years. Been working for CSX for 12 years. I have a 16' x16' double deck layout. lower deck has a yard, coal tipple, a farm, and wye train going into a fiddle yard. Upper deck is a steel mill.

Don

This is a view of most of my Basic Oxygen Furnace(BOF)

Welcome ...think I remember you from one of the steel modelers forums a few years back . Nice modeling !

Terry

Nice pics! Welcome to the Big Blue! Any chance of some more pics of your layout?

Chuck

Sure I can post a few more pictures of the layout. Here is a few more around the BOF.

Here is an over all shot of the steel mill. 8 years in the works and still along ways to go.







Don

to Big Blue, Don.

That's a good-looking steel plant you have there, and I especially like that Hulett unloader. You've done a nice job of capturing the semi-chaotic appearance of a real steel works, and that's complemented by the decent size of the structures.
Nice work.

Wayne

Here is a Panoramic view of the complete BOF. The complete structure was scratch build from parts from Walthers kits, Plastruct parts and believe it or not the projection screen of a broke big screen TV. The screen make perfect corrugated metal siding.



Don

Welcome to Big Blue Don. A very nice job. I hauled in and out of a steel mill for a couple of years and I wish now I had snuck a camera in. There were just so many neat things to model. You have really done your homework.
Charlie

Hallo Don,

nice to see such a complete steel work with many small themes for steel production. But best of all is the Hulett unloader, a really great piece of engineering art in reality - and on your layout. Congratulation to your work and thanks for showing!

Interesting to see you using British switching locomotives in the steel plant. What prompted you do do that?

Wow! Awesome! BTW, the little orange switcher on the narrow gage track - is that built from an old matchbox model?

The British switch found it's way on there buy accident I guess. If you look at different mills in the US you will see locomotives of all kinds and types of locomotives running around in there. They may not be from other country's but the British switcher does add a nice touch.

The little switcher is built from a Matchbox loco. It fit on a N scale 3 axle switcher perfectly. Once the mill is up and running it will have broad gauge standard gauge and narrow gauge locomotives and rolling stock. Kind of like what Bethlehem Steel had in one of there mills.

Don

"it will have broad gauge standard gauge and narrow gauge locomotives and rolling stock."

Just out of curiosity, is your broad gauge going to be 5' , or "metric"?
If your little switcher is on a former N scale chassis, are you calling that 30" gauge ?

If anyone questions any of your locos, you can always say they were built for the mill, by Sag Harbor Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.....( it's how I get away with things like an outside frame 3' gauge 2-4-4-2 ), and this project:
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And .......... to Big Blue

Sumpter - I love those hustlers. Did you repower them?

doctorwayne Wrote: to Big Blue, Don.

That's a good-looking steel plant you have there, and I especially like that Hulett unloader. You've done a nice job of capturing the semi-chaotic appearance of a real steel works, and that's complemented by the decent size of the structures.
Nice work.

Wayne

Does the Hulett unloader work..??

Here's a link to a Youtube video of a couple of them at work...

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I see that you have what appears to be an unloading dock in front of the unloader.

Very good modeling here...

Gus.