The Model Railroader's Guide to Steel Mills includes information on: Compressing a steel mill scene, modeling steel mill operations, planning layouts in HO and N scales, detailing a blast furnace kit, weathering slag cars and hot metal cars. Readers can build a layout that focuses just on the mill, or they can include a steel mill as a peripheral industry and model some of the traffic that brings in raw materials, hauls out finished product, and provides intra-plant movement. Filled with historic photos of railroad-served steel mills, it explores advances in both industries and the impact each had on the other. Kempinski takes readers on a detailed history of steelmaking, explaining the industrial process, and the massive complex built around steel production. Army captain, Bernard works as a defense analyst in Washington, D.C.Īccording to Kempinski, a highly detailed and complex industry that features operations with specialized railcars is hard to beat on a model railroad. Kempinski, an active model railroader, has written more than 40 magazine articles on model railroading. Author Bernard Kempinski explains the industrial process and the massive complex built around steel production. The Model Railroader's Guide to Steel Mills makes modeling this archetypical American industry possible for the average modeler. Railroads transport trainloads of raw materials in and finished product out as well as providing infra-plant movement of intermediary products during nearly every manufacturing step. Think of a steel mill and one pictures smoke, sparks, molten metal, and grimy men working in cavernous, mysterious complexes laced with a bewildering array of pipes, wires, and rail lines radiating in every direction. This new book suggests readers ad a realistic steel mill to their model railroad layout. All in all, the book is a bargain for anyone with an interest in steel and railroading whether or not you plan on building a mill. And it's much easier to build a realistic model when you understand what you're building. It is much easier to make sense of the maze of piping and enormous steel structures when you know what's going on inside. Like many of the books from Model Railroader Magazine, Steel Mills provides a nice amount of prototype information, history, operations and photos in a way that modeler's can use. I couldn't wait to pick up a copy of Bernard Kempinski's new book, The Model Railroader's Guide to Steel Mills (Kalmbach Books, 2010). As the next level of my home layout will be based on the furnaces at Steubenville, Ohio, I've been gathering as much information as I can. Steel mills are amazing yet mysterious places that are usually as out of reach to modelers as they are attractive.
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