Steel Modeling Resources:

Magazine articles on Steel mill modeling:

 7/1989 - Railroad Model Craftsman - Hal Kattau - 'Painting and weathering hot metal cars'
 1/1992 - Railroad Model Craftsman - Dean Freytag - 'Ingot molds and buggies'
11/1994 - Railroad Model Craftsman - Dean Freytag - 'Modeling a bottle car'
 8/1996 - Model Railroader - 'HO Pollock hot metal car' - Review of the Walthers bottle car kit
 3/1997 - Railmodel Journal - ?? - 'Calypso Yard' PBNE model
 1/1999 - Model Railroader - Darius Chagnon - 'Heavy Industry in a small space'
10/2000 - Railmodel Journal - Bernard Kempinski - 'Bethlehem Steel in HO or N scale'
12/2002 - Model Railroading - Lee Vande Visse - 'Weathering steel mill cars'

 

Magazine Pictures of Steel Mill Models:

 3/1959 - Model Railroader - Michael Rabbitt - blast furnace photo
 6/1966 - Model Railroader - Michael Rabbitt - blast furnace photo
 6/1982 - Railroad Model Craftsman - Sam Shepard (?) - photo
 3/1986 - NMRA Bulletin - Fred Fisher - 'Addison Steel Company'
 4/1994 - Model Railroader - Ted Gray - 'The Nashwaak Valley'
 7/1994 - NMRA Bulletin - photo
 4/1999 - Model Railroader - Columbia River Steel photo p.69

 

Magazine Articles on Prototype Steel Mill Subjects:

 8/1987 - Trains - Kevin Tomasic - 'Big Steel, little Baldwins' (Sharon Steel)
 8/1989 - Railroad Model Craftsman - Youngstown Steel, J&L - photos
 3/1994 - N.G. & Shortline Gazette - Garth Groff - 'Bethlehem Steel's 3' Vernon Line'
 3/1994 - RailPace - Carl Perelman - 'Bethlehem Steel Goes Cold'
 1/1997 - Railroad Model Craftsman - Bethlehem Steel - photos

 

Magazine Articles on Gas Holders:

 4/1970 - Model Railroader
 3/1986 - Mainline Modeler

 

Links to Other Steel Mill Modeling:

Groups and Events

2007 STEEL Mill Modeler's Meet

NMRA Industry SIG

RR Industry Special Interest Group

Yahoo Steel Group

 

Modelers

Peach Creek Shop's Makin' Steel

Jonathan Fritz's excellent N scale steel mill and his ongoing Construction Journal

Ken Karsen's Steel Mill, his very nice scratchbuilt brass Ore Bridge, and BOF building

Bernard Kempinski's 'N' Steel works

Dave Freshwater Alkem Steel

Randy Costanza's Steel Mill complex

HO Columbia River Steel 

Bob O'neil's HO USS Homestead Works

Robert Jones & Dennis Dye's Sloss Furnace model

Bill Trengove's 'N' Wharton Furnaces

3D 'Model' of a Blast Furnace and torpedo cars

AK (Ohio) BF model

Steel Man Jules Bethlehem Steel photos, modeling, & coal dumper pix

Steel Mill complex by Randy Costanza

 

 

Please Let me know if I missed an article or web site...