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Post by Country Joe on Aug 10, 2022 20:47:55 GMT
I’m glad you weren’t upset George. I didn’t think you were. I knew what I meant when I wrote “good start” but after you pointed it out I realized that anyone reading it would probably take it to mean that you had just started, like you had bought a kit and were just beginning assembly. What I wrote wasn’t clear to anyone but me. 🤔
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Post by ptc on Aug 10, 2022 23:15:49 GMT
I learned a long time ago that any progress is real progress. Just having fum doing it makes it all worthwhile.
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Post by Country Joe on Aug 11, 2022 1:06:05 GMT
I learned a long time ago that any progress is real progress. Just having fum doing it makes it all worthwhile.
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Post by g3750 on Aug 11, 2022 18:45:43 GMT
I learned a long time ago that any progress is real progress. Just having fum doing it makes it all worthwhile. Joe,
Your posts prompted me to actually work out the remaining steps for completion of this mill. Big mistake! 
I actually do have a lot of work left.
George
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Post by g3750 on Aug 13, 2022 16:31:24 GMT
Updated 8/13/2022: Work progresses on the Open Hearth furnaces - No. 11 is under construction. It's furthest away from the viewer, so I started it first. I hope to make all the mistakes on that one.  In the meantime, the US Snail delivered this beauty from Altoona Model Works. They did a great job on this replica of the smokestack at Federal Paperboard in Steubenville, OH.
More when I know it.
George
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Post by Country Joe on Aug 13, 2022 16:52:05 GMT
The new smoke stack looks great!
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Post by Adam on Aug 13, 2022 18:13:57 GMT
Wow, that smokestack is awesome!
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Post by g3750 on Aug 14, 2022 0:54:34 GMT
Joe & Adam - yeah, I've very happy with how it turned out. Looks very much like my (somewhat) faulty memory recalls it. I remember very little of the actual factory, but the stack is a lot less vague.
If you were at a certain spot on 4th Street (Ohio Route 7) in Steubenville, OH and facing the river (that's east), Federal Paperboard would have been on your left. It was probably served by the C & P (Cleveland & Pittsburgh) River Route of the PRR. Directly in front of you would be the A & P Market (now a Honda dealership). To the right would be Sears Roebuck & Co. They had a great train department and my first train (a Marx Allstate set) came from them. Today, the business in that rather large building is Triangle Electric (I think).
George
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Post by dennym57 on Aug 14, 2022 13:18:55 GMT
I agree, that smoke stack is nice.
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Post by g3750 on Aug 15, 2022 4:03:54 GMT
Updated 8/14/2022: I spent the better part of the last 2 days correcting and up-sizing my Visio drawings of the top, front, back, and sides of the Weirton Steel Open Hearth furnaces. Originally, they had been drawn in a scale that would allow them to fit on a single sheet of 11"x17" paper. That size proved too small and required a number of conversions - very error prone. These are pretty intricate structures. I finally had enough and converted them to full size (1/4" = 1/4") for construction purposes. They are done, but the effort was mentally exhausting. The timing is right though, because I am about to start assembling the front (oven doors) and top of the first furnace. More when I know it.
George
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Post by papa3rail on Aug 17, 2022 16:54:46 GMT
The project is coming along nicely George,was not familiar with Altoona Model Works, that smoke stack looks fantastic. Checked their site out I think I'll be sending some custom work their way. Dave
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Post by g3750 on Aug 17, 2022 20:28:44 GMT
The project is coming along nicely George,was not familiar with Altoona Model Works, that smoke stack looks fantastic. Checked their site out I think I'll be sending some custom work their way. Dave
Thanks. I know that I am moving, even if it feels like I'm running in waist-high mud.
Actually, I have been thinking about that smokestack for years. I finally pulled the trigger when I realized that it could be modified to fit the prototype. It was only a couple of years ago that I figured out that Federal Paperboard would work on the layout.
George
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Post by g3750 on Aug 26, 2022 20:38:47 GMT
Updated 8/26/2022: Floor painting and installation for the Open Hearth was suspended to allow me to focus on a prerequisite - getting the furnaces themselves correctly built. This project is proving the adage: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Three sides of the furnaces were already built when I decided to raise the charging floor by 6 scale feet (1.5"). That forced me to extend the furnace sections visible on the pouring floor by that amount. And it required that I construct the front and roof of each furnace. To do that correctly, I had to clean-up the drawings so that components and measurements are right and the order of assembly is determined. I ended up with a slightly revised drawing of the front of the furnace and 3 top view drawings. That's because the roof is layered. I'm getting there, but it's not a quick process. George |
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Post by papa3rail on Aug 26, 2022 21:27:02 GMT
George, plans change a lot with model railroads,I thought about changing mine to the plan B RR, plan A was always changing. Look forward to seeing the furnaces when you get them done.
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Post by g3750 on Aug 27, 2022 16:26:34 GMT
George, plans change a lot with model railroads,I thought about changing mine to the plan B RR, plan A was always changing. Look forward to seeing the furnaces when you get them done.
Yes, the only constant appears to be change.
George
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