Pieter, This may have been at a NASG convention a while back, but was not as complete. I remember seeing something with a lot of copper pipe soldered together in the lobby outside of the venders room. The steel handling cars looked pretty good in your photos. Did you get any more info on it? Was it apart of the builder's layout?
I know of someone that is considered to be an authority on steel mills. Researching them is pretty much his life. He has made a small side business out of selling drawings and data. His HO layout is ALL about making steel. It might be open on the layout tours of this RPM meet coming up. http://www.phillynmra.org/RPMMeet.html A recent Dirty Jobs show has an hour on working in a steel recycling plant which was pretty good. A recent issue of TRAINS has an article about moving ladle cars in Indiana. The Edgar Thompson Steel plant near Pittsburgh was one of the best tours I have ever been on. They are only one of the 3 (I think) plants in the US making NEW steel. The rest are all gone. We drove around the area in the tour bus for 45 minutes looking at empty lots where other steel plants used to be. Everyone else is just a recycling and reforming plant of existing steel. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Winner of the 2007 Josh Seltzer NASG Website Award Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Importing a Brass S Scale PRR X29 & G26 http://www.pennsysmodels.com PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE (for now) http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.15/1248 - Release Date: 1/28/2008 9:32 PM Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
