Step-By-Step Build Series - Walthers Ashland Rolling Mill

[doctorwayne]

I'm not familiar with strip mill roll stands, but my guess is that this is what this mill is meant to represent, and possibly only the final stand in the process. In that case, the coil cars would be for outbound coils. (All of my steelmaking books are on-loan to a friend, so I can't be sure.)
Since the roll stand seems to represent neither the beginning nor the end of the process (there's no machinery to make the actual coil) a crane wouldn't be necessary for coil handling (although most mills do have overhead cranes for servicing the machinery).

Wayne