Hamilton & Great Lakes Railroad

[doctorwayne]

The Old Time Trains site has a section on Stelco, which may have some useful photos.

Over 40 years ago, I started building a model of their "E" blast furnace, which was, at the time, one of the largest in North America. I had blueprints, supplied by their engineering department, to work from, but eventually had to shelve the project because I didn't have sufficient room for the entire complex. The casthouse alone occupied most of a 4'x4' board, and the stoves, scrubbers, and stockhouse would have almost tripled that.



Here's the same area on the real one:





The two-track skip bridge was built-up from basswood structural shapes, and was over 3' long.

All that remains today is a bunch of roof trusses, built-up from basswood shapes and styrene gusset plates:



...and one of the casthouse cranes, re-worked as a composite of a couple of other cranes to which I had access. It languished in a shoe box until I finally decided to make it an outdoor crane behind the Lowbanks locomotive shop:



Wayne