I have been building this for a couple of weeks it's my version only, maybe not an accurate scale model but it will look the part on my Steel Mill Railroad.
72" long 21" wide 32" high it's just about ready for painting I still have to build the gantry crane and ladle, plus, plus, plus!
On the layout there are four tracks to service it and a scrap metal yard behind it with another crane that part is finished it's a part of what I call "the last great project"! Roo.
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nice! Will it be hard to lift up six-feet without a base?
NICELY DONE
As always,,,Great!
While my wife stood by to grab anything that fell off and position the table outside I picked it up myself and carried it outside, now it has the first coat of primer except I forgot to glue some uprights on the Gantry crane rails so left them bare will sort those out. Thanks Alan.
Marty Thanks. I'll be placing an order soon.
Roo.
looks like a killer piece Nev!
Simon
Fantastic work!
jpv in France
Well done!
Peter
Excellent work!
We're working on a small steel mill & furnace for our club. You have some very good ideas there.
Amazing Roo! You have always been an inspiration to me!
Wow - the detail is amazing, great job!
Another great piece of work Neville! Looking forward to the install images.
what makes this well done is that it looks really uncomplicated at first until you do a double-take on the details and you see the work that went into it.
Awesome.
That looks amazing!
Roo posted:While my wife stood by to grab anything that fell off and position the table outside I picked it up myself and carried it outside, now it has the first coat of primer except I forgot to glue some uprights on the Gantry crane rails so left them bare will sort those out. Thanks Alan.
Marty Thanks. I'll be placing an order soon.
Roo.
That is a true masterpiece. I assume you have first hand experience with this sort of facility.
It is amazing to me that on a cold windy winter day when a 220 ton ladle of molten steel is coming towards you that things warm up real quick!
Lou N
Thank you all for your kind remarks.
Getting this structure through the house and into an already crowded space was a nerve racking job the structure could only be picked up from each end of the building itself and not the gantry then I had to walk around the corner with it to its alloted space. So it was me picking up and my wife guiding Margie was more nervous than me!
Fun and games for all. Roo.
ROO,
I worked for Republic Steel back in the early 80's and that looks pretty close to me. 
Really exceptional work! 
Chief Bob (Retired) 
Wow! I wasn't expecting that kind of reaction.
Thanks very much fellas I really appreciate the remarks so just to show you where all this is going here is a picture of the BOF, the Blast Furnace, and the Rolling Mill all condensed to fit the room I have, O scale eats up space! One day it will all come together. Roo.
OK I tried to download a photo didn't happen try again in the morning. Sorry. Roo.
I like the way you ran the pair of one piece gantry rails fully through the building to create a unitized stable structure/accessory protrusion. Thoughtful model engineering! But then that is what we have come to expect from you. Exceptional work, thank you for sharing.
That looks pretty spectacular!
Great model. My favorite Steel mill scene had an EPA inspector hanging by a thread off the roof. The modeler was a steelworker.
Having worked at the Falk Corp. in Milwaukee, I would say, though our building was different, the mechanism and rail layout is right on. Our BOF was added to the open hearth facility which of course would account for the differing structure. Great work and huge!
Ray
Roo posted:Thank you all for your kind remarks.
Getting this structure through the house and into an already crowded space was a nerve racking job the structure could only be picked up from each end of the building itself and not the gantry then I had to walk around the corner with it to its alloted space. So it was me picking up and my wife guiding Margie was more nervous than me!
Fun and games for all. Roo.
As mentioned Neville, not only a well detailed structure, well thought out engineering and construction as shown here!
Very cool! Love it!
Great work Nev. I don't know how true to a real BOF but it's very impressive in it's own right. It'll be a nice addition to the mill.
Very well done, Roo....
Very nice, very realistic. Having been through many steel mills and seen many furnaces, I think you are capturing the overall idea very well. Honestly, trying to create a true scale steel mill would be almost impossible for almost anyone in 1:48 scale.
The real grabber for me though is of you lifting that beast, really shows the size of it better than any other picture, it's fantastic modeling on every level.
Oh! now I see why you did not build it on a base sheet!!.
WOW !! that is awesome ROO 
jpv in France
Roozilla! 
Ha Ha Ha. I like it.
Now after that it is a hard act to follow but I'll try!
A photo showing how the main parts of the Mill will eventually blend in together there are other sections not shown.
Thanks very much for the kind words I did not expect such a reaction much appreciated. Roozilla
That is a very impressive structure. Would you mind sharing with us some of the construction details that went into it and maybe a walk around the mill portions of your layout?
Rayin"S" posted:Having worked at the Falk Corp. in Milwaukee, I would say, though our building was different, the mechanism and rail layout is right on. Our BOF was added to the open hearth facility which of course would account for the differing structure. Great work and huge!
Ray
I got to go to the Falk gear school in about 2000. I worked for a company the repaired rotary lime kilns and saw a lot of Falk gearboxes. I wish I had the room for a 400' long lime kiln.
Dick
PUFFRBELLY posted:ROO,
I worked for Republic Steel back in the early 80's and that looks pretty close to me.
Chief Bob (Retired)
That's the place I was talking about. I was an engineer at North American Mfg Co (the burner makers) at the time. I was designing controls for tundish heaters.
Lou N
Roo, If that's a Basic Oxygen Furnace , I'd hate to see what a detailed one looks like then!!!! LOL That's absolutely awesome!!
Nev. That's fine piece of work mate.
Bob
Roo The building is amazing, your whole layout is great, you have created an amazing amout of interest, and I can see that operation would be just as interesting. Its to bad Perth and Adelaide are so far apart Id love to see it in person. cTr....( Choose the Right )
I am working on another building, the "slab mill" when that is finished we will go for a walk around the layout.
Now keep in mind that I have limited knowledge of Steel Mills never seen one, but I have researched Steel Mills for about three years and bought just about every American book (Thank you internet!) I could find about Steel mills including Dean Freytag's books and some Steel books I thought were useless until I went further into research and found them most valuable.
What I have done is turn the whole layout into one Steel Mill model and in my limited space have tried to pick out the most important parts of a mill that used Railroads as their sole transport system.
I like operation so their is plenty of action it may not be correct in all phases but it is near enough for what I want we run the layout every Friday just three of us and it gives us a lot of enjoyment it takes the whole day to go through the program of course there is always a lot of talk and eating and drinking as well!
I have had visitors and they are given a loco and a control panel and coached on what to do, some enjoy it, others politely tell me it is not what they would enjoy again, which is OK I can understand. Next week I will get the camera out and see what I can do for a walk around.
The large buildings are not hard to build it's the details that take time the walls and roofs are made from 3mm MDF strengthened with scrap wood then clad with Plastic sheets. I started using 3mm (1/8) thick styrene sheets from a plastic firm but it was expensive so I went to MDF which is a fraction of the cost, here is the "Slab Mill" before cladding. The buildings have to be condensed down to fit my space, these photos were taken today.
I have thought about magazine articles for this project but I am old and tired and just cannot bear the thought of snapping endless photos and writing articles which would fill a book I have proper plans in CAD drawn up by a good friend for the Blast Furnace (not the real thing the model!) the rest I just thought up in my head drew a rough sketch and away I went.
Again, thank you all very much for your interest and kind remarks. Roo.
Spectacular model Roo, great job. Looks like it fits right in on the layout. Can't wait to see more.
Bob
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