Ho Scale Burlington County Model Railroad tour of the steel mill

[@bobmcweeney7459]

Beautiful! The track work is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[@caprailroad]

Thanks for checking it out.

[@highlife0586]

Nice layout! I'm a retired Steelworker so I can appreciate this kind of thing.

[@caprailroad]

If you ever come to nj. You can come check it out one day

[@highlife0586]

@@caprailroad OK cool thanks

[@lucgagnon5241]

Steel is a hard one in HO. Mainly because buildings are very complex and detailed but most of all because of the space it needs to get close to scale. I respect ALL the work that has been done here. Some structures look fantastic and nicely weathered. Especially electric furnace, rolling mill AND bridge crane. Not a fan of thin background building but yours are come up very nicely. Thanks for sharing. Must be very busy OPS on your layout. Keep on your good work.

[@caprailroad]

I was making a video doing ops just in the steel mill but I found out afterwards my camera died. Lol

[@michaelamoroso4561]

Great video. You did a great job.

[@caprailroad]

Thank you!

[@waynedooley6944]

Great how the scenery and back drop blend together. Especially like the tow truck hooking up the 57 chevy at 1:26. Nice little detail.

[@caprailroad]

Thanks

[@McBain-qe2jh]

The only thing better would be the actual place itself. Your surroundings look 100% real. Amazing layout.

[@MineMountModels]

I really miss being a member of this club. A great bunch of guys. I built the blue maintenance building at :35 a long time ago. Around 2002.

[@AMX86]

Outstandingly done, great detail and action.

[@caprailroad]

Thank you very much!

[@frankkie3849]

Very nice work, thanks for sharing..

[@caprailroad]

You are welcome

[@davidbondy4359]

you would never see a boxcar in a steel mill building, should be a gondola. I worked for us steel 43 years very nice layout keep it up.

[@caprailroad]

Could be used for loading smaller ingots or material for shipping

[@donaldkormos5529]

Nice steel mill ... super video tour!!!

[@caprailroad]

Thanks. Hope to get a video of it being operational one day when i can get back to the club

[@mloik1]

Awesome scene. Looks like a fun area to operate. I thought the guy by the water tower was doing some Tai Chi, lol!

[@dundasjunctionmodelr.r-jam8267]

Very impressive, I am building a steel mill layout, like how you did the high line, gives me a idea , great work

[@caprailroad]

Thanks

[@luvindemtrains]

About 3 years late for this but trying to see as many models as possible. Currently working on a steel mill for my layout. Nice tour.

[@caprailroad]

Your never late to the party

[@pleiku887]

The patience required is off the chart.

[@caprailroad]

It took years for my club to build

[@lucgagnon5241]

Many interesting features here. But the main thing is that I highly respect modelers who are doing steel industry. Takes a lot of "juice" to model those big structures and make them look as real, rusty and dirty as they're suppose too. I think you succeed in doing it. I also like the fact that you modeled it on a long part of your layout. And I'm pretty sure that there was no other way to do it for you. Congrats ! Probably very interesting to do ops on it. Thumb's up !

[@caprailroad]

When doing operation sessions. Someone is station here full time. Their 3 jobs that person usually do. Their is an interchange siding sitting down the hill near the mains. Their a secondary yard up in the middle. Then their the job of switching all the cars from the upper yard to the different locations in the steel mill. Full time job, literally

[@lucgagnon5241]

@@caprailroad Hi. Thanks for answering. When I start an OP session of 15 cars on my paper mill complex, it take like 3 hours to put together from a carfloat, then delivering and coming back with empties and full to l9ad the carfloat. I can imagine how long it can be on your layout. The wonderful world of railroad modeling !

[@stephenjohnson26]

@@lucgagnon5241 I have had the pleasure of running the Mill twice with Ops and I can tell you it is a FRIGGIN' BLAST!!!! I really enjoy operating on this layout and I am so grateful for the opportunities

[@lucgagnon5241]

I really model trains OPS !

[@stephenjohnson26]

@@caprailroad I can attest to that, it is a blast!

[@alfrednawrocki8061]

Excellent video. Reminds me of my home town of Detroit! McClouth Steel was a large steel mill on Zug Island in the Detroit River. Delray Connecting Railroad was an account of mine. It serviced the mill Nd Allied Chemical. Spent sometime at that location. Dirty filthy conditions!! What else would you expect !! Great layout guys !!

[@marka5478]

McLouth Steel was in Trenton, Michigan. The former National Steel Co. was on Zug Island.

[@ironknobsteelworks4063]

im a steelworker. i fix the trains and this layout is so realistic.

[@caprailroad]

Thank you. It took years for my club to build this

[@georgiasunbelt]

Thanks for the tour of the mill area... seems like a challenge to switch but fun...that elevated area behind the mill where those hoppers were seem like it’d be a pain to do uncoupling

[@kevinb9327]

Burlington County NJ? I was in the first graduating class of BCCC. I model the N scale Orange Belt (Saint Pete subdivision).

[@caprailroad]

Oh nice. If your still in the area. You can always come check it out

[@robertsiebenrock3997]

Great layout, but would like to see closeup of the cars and engines.

[@caprailroad]

If your in NJ anytime after thanks giving. Ask to come visit the club. The members are happy to show it off anytime. Look us up on fb. BURLINGTON COUNTY MODEL RAILROAD CLUB

[@dabulphilly]

Hell of a layout

[@caprailroad]

Thank you

[@ModelingSteelinHO]

Thank you !

[@caprailroad]

np i had time and figure i might as well get the full detail of it. it also gave me ideas of doing the whole layout

[@ModelingSteelinHO]

@@caprailroad This club. You guys are terrific modelers. Thank you again for taking the time to film the steel mill section.

[@RobsTrainHouse]

Love the Videos keep it up #BMR

[@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204]

nice layout

[@caprailroad]

thanks

[@joshuakeller1969]

Why put the oven away and apart at the back when it is used to heat up the air for the blast furnace?

[@caprailroad]

Not sure. This was built way before i even joined the club.

[@bhigdaddymark]

Beautiful layout! I'm glad that I watched the video until the end as I was going to request a full layout tour, but you mentioned doing exactly that so thanks. Are all or most of the industries are on one side of the layout? I'd like to see the other side and any piers that the layout might have. Thanks for sharing this video!

[@caprailroad]

the industries are all spread out across the layout. next time i go back ill do another video

[@FKHTrump2024]

Does this represent Ashland Kentucky?

[@caprailroad]

Unfortunately no. Its a completely freelance club layout

[@dundasjunctionmodelr.r-jam8267]

This is a excellent video of your steel mill, I am working on my steel mill layout, giving me lots of ideas , how big is your layout

[@stevenquintana5040]

Nicely done. Quick question where did you purchase the concrete foundations for the buildings?

[@caprailroad]

not sure exactly. ill ask the president of the club next time i stop by about that.

[@musicman8942]

Nice but as an ex-employee of US Steel Fairless Works in Pennsylvania and spending 2 years in their Coke Works (back in the 70's) I have to ask - how do you get the coke out of the ovens? No door cars, no hot car, no pusher ram, no wharf for the quenched coke to be dumped on, etc. It's the big cardinal sin I see of every other model (regardless of scale) that models a steel mill. Modeler's license - I get that but when you have US Steel on the structures then it gripes me no end. Someone needs to get a hold of the 'Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel' book that US Steel put out if you're at all serious about modeling a steel plant.

[@caprailroad]

@musicman8942 Dear sir, While your observations may technically be correct, the limitations the club has on space only allows for certain items to have been originally built. You are more than welcome to visit the club during an open house and make observations in person, but we believe that you will find that in the space allotted for the steel, we have done the best we could to "represent"what a steel mill would look like and does. Additionally, if you have a copy of the book from US steel that you referenced, we would be happy to look it over and make modifications. We appreciate you watching our layout video and specifically the steelmill portion of it. we will strive as always to do better in the future.

[@musicman8942]

@@caprailroad I have a copy but am not willing to part with it. The one I have was my late father's - he worked in the blast furnace section. What I'm talking about wouldn't take up all that much more space but would add to authenticity of the layout. Like I said it's one of those things that every layout I have ever seen that does steel and has coke works misses. Heck even Walthers misses it in their coke oven battery kit.