01-17-2009, 08:20 PM
Bigsteel Wrote:val,the shots you have of teeming ingots and pouring BOFs into ladles is pretty imppressive.the library of congress HABS website has plans of the pittsburgh steel mill open hearth shop if your era is in the 40's and 50's along with hundreds of other steel mill drawings.but remember that a large OH or BOF shop is about 1000 feet long,so you'll only be able to model a small part but the "some other mill" could be part of the shop.but your favorite part of the shop seems to be the teeming side,so you could model it in that skinny of a building.i've always wanted to build a full interior of an OH or BOF shop,it'll be great to see someone elses take on the same thing.--josh
Thanks for the tip Josh. That HABS site is totally amazing. I will have to check it out again soon. 1000 ft long hmmm? That's only 11-1/2 ft in HO. The scary thing is, I actually have that much space, but I would have to forego ALL the other buildings that aren't on the peninsula!!
Trucklover Wrote:Val i like the trackplan!!
I cant wait to see some details inside the mill!! That is going to be sweet!!
Hey thnks TL!!! It's not nearly as complex as your trackplan, but I'm getting there. I should say that this is by no means the final track plan. I am going to wait until I have all the kits in hand, if not built, so that I can get a better idea of placement, with a certain "doctor's" help.
I was part-way through building the interior of a foundry awhile ago, and I still have the big ladle I built for that. It's a start anyway! LOL!
doctorwayne Wrote:Great photos, Jim, and much better than any I could find.
Val, the building with all the piping is the BOF, with each stack representing one vessel. This end is, I believe, where the ladles are rebuilt. The item in the foreground, along with the other two near the doors, are slag pots, which are carried by a rubber-tired vehicle to the slag dump on the bayfront - the pot is tipped, allowing the molten slag to run into a pit, often with explosive results.
The following photo is one of the coke oven batteries (I couldn't say which one, though, as I never worked on this side of the plant.) I don't know if this is the side from which the coke is pushed or the side to which it's pushed, but there's a track hidden by the retaining wall with the railing on top. On the pushing side, the door remover and pusher would run on it, while on the receiving side, there'd be a door remover and the coke larry car.
The last two photos are, I think, "D" Furnace, which I believe has been torn down.
Wayne
Thanks for that great explanation Wayne! I have some photo's I saved from a few years ago of a BOF. I will have to pull them out. Don't want to overload you with questions right now, so I am going to leave "some other plant" nameless for now.
cheers
Val