Trainz: Pennsylvania & Berwind Episode 25: Allegheny Steel

In this episode we make a ton of progress setting up Allegheny Steel. We'll return to this area in future episodes to complete the detailing.
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[@ApproachMedium]

Coil Cars are from RRmods.com

[@adamzap5507]

Thanks, just one more thing, the rotary dumper where's it from.

[@246spyder]

A security car for the guardhouses would be right. But no need to have a one at the main entrance. Check your parking spaces, they are at least twice as big as they should, that is the roadway width I am talking about. Compress it more. think of where the workers go into the building and put the spaces close the entrances. A place as big as this would have a number of entrances.The parking lot would be fenced all around with each lot having its own building entrance guard. More flatbeds, box trailers used more often at places that do stamping or castings. By the way, you do make it look easy. Only wish I could afford the hardware to do something like this, I love cityscapes.

[@ToddReuterOutdoors]

For the big empty spot in the parking lot, you could incorporate a "staging area" for the trucks with loads that have scheduled appointment delivery times that need to be loaded / unloaded. I know as a truck driver, a lot of the industrial parks have a ton of drop trailers, or empties, that sit around waiting to be used. A loading area outdoors in the parking lot would work too, as flatbed steel trailers aren't always loaded inside of the building.

[@hnickkulp9103]

I LOVE the series and the steel mill is a great addition. A steel mill could be a complete module. Morning Sun Books just came out with 2 GREAT books on Bethlehem Steel. Steel mills need either iron ore or pellets to make steel. They also need limestone , coal, and most have their own power plant because they consume a LOT of power . They have special cars for hot metal and slag, plus small ingot cars for the billets. Bethlehem Steel had it own railroad with both standard gauge and 3 foot narrow gauge equipment . I model a small Bethlehem Steel railroad , the Cornwall Railroad. 8 miles long and it hauled the iron ore from the mine, in Cornwall, Pa. to the plant in Lebanon, Pa. Cornwall mine operated continuously for over 212 years. It provide iron for the Revolutionary War and was finally shut down in 1974 after the pit was flooded by Hurricane Agnes in 1972.

[@anshar6579]

This whole route is really amazing. I for one don't care if an industry is totally accurate as long as it reasonably close in appearance. and that looks a lot like a steel mill to me. awesome detail work

[@trainsequallife5185]

Gosh, now I feel bad for saying that the layout of the place was wrong, but I was wrong. Great video! Keep up the awesome work!

[@Michael4201YT]

you think you could do a tutorial on painting? many of us young builders can do decent scenes with minor paint work but some of us cant make nice looking ground cover with out covering the whole area in trees

[@a-lineaficionado1000]

Michael Bobb that would be a good idea since I am also young

[@Chasingrail]

Michael Bobb yea

[@Michael4201YT]

ahaha! my peoples! they understand the pain

[@michaelpeddicord7479]

I worked at American Steel Foundries in Alliance, Ohio for 28 years. We made all the Railroad Castings for the under carriage of the railroad cars. We made Sideframes, Bolsters, Draft Sills, Draw Bars and Couplers. They would make sand cores and bake them and arrange them in flasks and then pour steel into the flask to produce the castings. I worked in the Core Room for 15 yrs. I then transferred to the Yard Dept. where they operated Lift Trucks, Flat Beds and the 35 ton Center Cab Switcher. The guys I worked with and my boss knew I loved trains so one morning they told me they had a surprise for me. I was going to get the opportunity to run the Locomotive. That made my day. We would take scrap loads out of 1 track and then do a run around so we could deliver them to 21 track and then take empties back down. We would pull empty sand cars and replace them with full ones and we would pull filled Box Cars out to the siding and spot them for pickup and replace them with emptycars. And, yes, they did have a guard shack with a guard posted. I just thought this might be interesting to you. My email issquirestrat@live .com. I would like some info on what specs I would need to run Trainz

[@michaelhostetter5856]

Have to say the Steel Mill looks incredible and the route in general is starting to shape up. Can't wait to see what else will be in the works!

[@alexandergrube6437]

What I could like is a video of the P&B that is just cinematics

[@ToddReuterOutdoors]

lightnindash 3804 YES! Just a 20 minute video of cinematic scenes through the P&B. I would love to see more of Vonny. Definitely can't get enough small town switching.

[@ApproachMedium]

Once I get enough of the route completed I'll definitely be doing something like that.

[@railwayts]

I have now been watching your videos since the Oil refinery came out. And since then I have loved your style of Trainz route building. Your style is very different from usual in my opinion, you put lot of time into little details, which is great! And the way the route comes up in little pieces build by build is amazing. I've got lot of tips and inspiration from you to my builds. Thanks, and best regards! (Also great build again, can't wait to see the next one!)

[@ApproachMedium]

Glad to hear you've been around since the start of this journey! And also that you're still enjoying my builds/videos :-D

[@jarroddark8560]

your route is looking good Joe. keep up the good work my friend.

[@Dirigo207]

Finally. Could help me detail the steel mill I got done up on the CBVR. Now get outside and enjoy, winter/spring/summer/fall all in the same day

[@halfwick7560]

I only live 10 mins from Bethlehem Steel, I usually go down there all the time to watch the NS Leigh Valley Line. Great vid btw.

[@jay600katana]

Love these vid AM, you've inspired me to save money for a new computer lol.That parking lot could have lanes for semi truck staging for indoor loading of multi axle flat beds and spaces for flat bed/dry van trailer parking. A modern mill of that size would have a lot of truck traffic and also a lot of security (barbwire fences surrounding the entire property, limited access and etc.). Something for you to research the operation.

[@jampresident9197]

Amazing work Approach Medium!! A lot of big steel mills I've seen are on the water on one side and city on the other, but don't worry about it as this looks great. I'll get a faster computer, don't worry about too much detail :)

[@TheVk3tom]

On the download station there is emergency lights, pick a vehicle maybe 4wd and stick a light on it for a security vehicle would be ok at the gate.

[@bobashenbrener8172]

As always...awesome job!

[@pleasant_asymmetry]

You said penitentiary as a joke, but a prison could actually be a cool industry to have, with an old rusty spur receiving an occasional hopper of coal for the old heating boiler.

[@scuffed69420]

Just a thought but their are better coal unloaders on the download station if you search rotary dumper and most of the good ones are made by bendorsey

[@nathanh.5373]

Great work, i think you are the best map creator i know on trainz

[@groggers]

Omg please do a steel mill build challenge that would be amazing.

[@BNSF_7777_Productions]

Amazing work Approach Medium, can you make a single track section nearby an ocean on one side and a hill on the other, it would be like my hometown, I can only imagine how amazing you would make it look

[@BNSF_7777_Productions]

TGs Train Clips without a train ticket, good thing I always take a Metrolink there and back... so I wouldn’t talk

[@imdrailvids1152]

Great job!

[@Railhead1956]

Beautiful

[@joshbnsf]

Love it creep it up the Rel

[@KYLETHEBOSS1803]

Great vid could you make a tutorial on how to add custom cab and horns please

[@BNSFNorthwestDivisionNScale]

Great video! Loved your energy it it!

[@collinm8]

17:57 Nuclear power plant might be a good idea, maybe to fill up some empty spaces along the mainline.

[@jank7536]

You have 3 blast furnaces, and besides their elevators there are normaly some so called "Coal bridges" with big bunkers underneath, were the Trains are unloaded. Will you built something like that?, it would make it much more realistic :) also cool would be an unloading point for the scrap cars, maybe with an overhead crane, cause every large steel plant needs alot of scrap for the steel making process.

[@quirky4043]

Mr, Medium I have a question. Why don't you do container trains no more. I liked the container train on Needles.

[@worldoftrains8174]

Thank you, for another amazing video!

[@Chasingrail]

Amazing as usual!

[@tombore9516]

would there be as many trees next to a steel mill that you put down Approach Medium?

[@creation2305]

You should build an airport for Allegheny

[@joellwenkel455]

Can you do a day cycle in this

[@mikew9279]

how do you get slag and torpedo cars to tip and unload?

[@alexandergrube6437]

Maybe make a steel mill as a build challenge

[@adamzap5507]

Where all did the cool cars come From

[@YoungMoney-iu1lq]

You should do thomas and friends playlist in train lets build

[@tjx414]

How do you get those pennsilvania locos cause i just got trainz a new wra and i completed some missions but i only have a bout 4 locos Can you plzzz help me

[@anshar6579]

There are a lot of really good freeware locos at sites like Jointed Rail. There are also tutorials available on how to reskin them into whatever paint scheme you like.

[@anshar6579]

ok cool ty for the information. I was trying to explain that there were a lot of options out there for him to increase his loco numbers as he stated he had very few. I did not specify the P&B locos because I assumed that they were special reskins AM had done

[@Dawsonsrailfanadventures74]

You live in western new.york to so do i what county

[@Cryptonymicus]

Speaking of details, you might want to put more pickups and SUVs in your parking lots: "Three full-size pickups were still the best-selling vehicles in the United States last year. But the fourth-place spot was claimed for the first time by an SUV, not a sedan. In 2017 the Toyota RAV4 sport ute outsold the Toyota Camry sedan, reigning car-sales champ for the last 15 years." Jan 2018 www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2018/01/04/suv-sales/109166974/

[@ApproachMedium]

I totally agree. I just need to find decent assets for pick ups and SUVs. The DLS doesn’t make it easy to find anything.

[@Mas4449]

Where did you get the coil cars?

[@ApproachMedium]

Rrmods

[@Mas4449]

Approach Medium thanks!

[@HoyeGraphics]

I don't know if you looked at pics of it already, but maybe take some time and look at the US Steel Mill in Lorain, Ohio. That might give you some more 'old and run-down' mill feeling Inspiration. That's a massive complex, though.

[@cbrail3006]

Hi I love your channel

[@westernwashingtonrailprodu6339]

I could skin up an Allegheny Steel SW15 for you.

[@ApproachMedium]

That would be awesome

[@westernwashingtonrailprodu6339]

Approach Medium I don't think I'll be able to do a JR model without blank PSDs, and now that I think about it Mark Hoffman's MP15 may actually work best.

[@Chasingrail]

Hey Approach, I was just looking through my recommended and I saw this video, it really relates to this video and might help. I never knew there was an Allegheny Steel RR. It’s just a RR that operates at an Allegheny Steel mill or whatever (obviously lol). Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6anaaSCrbuEo7M

[@cbrail3006]

And I have been doing the p and b

[@michaelpeddicord7479]

You could also have coke, manganese and ore delivered

[@AgentSpockAgentSpock]

That dumper you put in don't work and it don't look right and test a locomotive and a coal car in that dumper

[@ApproachMedium]

It’s the only one I could find. Do you know of a better model?

[@AgentSpockAgentSpock]

Approach Medium there are some better dumpers on the down load station

[@vermilionrailfan5651]

Joe Im sorry, but the last time you did something with another JR member, it broke

[@ApproachMedium]

It’s about to be fixed

[@cbrail3006]

And do the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

[@Michael4201YT]

buddy there is an edit button so you don't have to do post several comments all at once

[@RailsOfTheWorld]

i was just about to say that too Michael.

[@Michael4201YT]

a fellow commenter who understands my pain

[@FrehleyFan3988]

Where did u get the steel mill?