Sneak Peek- New Steel Mill Modeling book

Nice job Bernie. Just enough to start the drooling process. 

I'll need to add this new book to my wishlist. After moving to the greater Cleveland area, I think I've found a local prototype to model in HO scale. Part of the scene includes two steel operations, so I'll need to get up to speed on this aspect soon.

Eric

 Eric,

Great to hear from you. Did not know about the Cleveland move. Go check the steel mills there. Lots of good heavy metal action.

BCK

I will add it to my wish list when it comes out.  The bottle car looks especially good - can you tell us what scale it is?

Bernie,

You have a new book coming out on the steel industry? That's interesting. I'll get it when it comes out even though I don't model that industry. Hopefully you'll sell it through Alkem just like you did your previous one of which I have an autographed copy that you sent me. Keep up the good work.

By the way, how is your Civil War era layout coming?

Irv

 The bottle car in the photo is HO scale.  The book shows HO and N Scale hot metal and slag cars.  It has a little bit of everything, but in general is an introductory volume.

 while I finished up the book. I hope to get cracking on it again soon.

I do have a back log of projects to catch up on though.

For this book, I plan to take preorders on my website. I'll post more info when it is available.

Thanks,

BCK

I plan to do some prototype exploring around Cleveland this summer. It's amazing what was here at one time. In addition to steel, there were extensive petroleum and chemical operations, manufacturing of just about anything, and typical coal, lumber and oil dealers. The part of Newburgh that draws my attention had the large American Wire & Steel and Valley Mould and Casting plants. Just down the track there were some small town kind of industries like coal dealers, wholesale grocery, retail lumber, and a team track. Not what you would expect next to a couple of heavy metal operations, but it was all there along the Wheeling & Lake Erie line.

Seems if you threw a stone anywhere around the Cleveland area it landed in the middle of a different industrial complex.

Eric

Bernie,

What you are seeing didn't just happen in Cleveland. It happened all over. There are parts of NYC that looked very diffrent even 50 years ago than they do today. What with taxes, the cost of labor and the rise of unions, insurance and government regulations, businesses found tha they could not compete and so they either went out of business ore moved elsewhere. Some of those locations were still in the US. Many weren't and now that trend still continues as clerical, financial and other jobs are being exported overseas. No one in Washington DC ever bothers to look at the root causes of this because is the number one reason why the economy is such big trouble. People who are unemployed can't buy anything and even have trouble payong off the debt they have accumulated. Rather than sending money to Chrysler, GM and the banking industry, that money would be best spent ins solving the unemployment and debt paying problems the government has created or allowed to happen.

If you ever come to New York City, I'd love to give you a tour of just what happened to NYC since 1950.

Irv

On my upcoming layout I will model a Steel Mill in N-scale. Right now I'm trying to gather as much information as I can find on Internet for this Mill. Hopefully this book will be released in the beginning of 2010 and not in the end. It would certanly be a very good source for my project.

Bernie,

Having seen your meticulous attention to detail elsewhere I fully expect this book to be a winner! Thank you for taking the time to collect and share this wealth of information (plus your usual gorgeous eye-candy).

Charlie