The Iron Belt - Steel Mill Photos

This is a list of PowerPoint steel mill photo slides on my Iron Belt model railroad. The original presentation, which includes a broad range of non Steel-related slides as well, was given at the NMRA 2006 National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 6, 2006. Slides were saved as JPG images with simple HTML links; I adoped this format in order to make it viewable across a full range of browsers - not only Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Each slide image was stored at 800x500 pixels in size to enable faster downloading on dial-up connections. Also, some photos have been made available in full size (average size=300K); these are optionally viewable by clicking on the link labeled "Large" on the corresponding slide pages.

Every page has a "Next" link for moving forward in the list, "Prev" to move backwards, and "Index" to return to this list to jump directly to a slide by clicking on its thumbnail or title/caption.

 


      Iron Belt Quick Facts
      Route Map
      Track Plan
      Riverfront Panoramic View
      Yard-side Panoramic View
      Raw materials processing area
      Coke oven battery, with highline ‘flood’ loader
      Conveyor junction house at top of coal crusher building
      An early under-construction view of repositioned incoming coal conveyor
      Under-construction view of coke wharf, etc.
      Under-construction view of coking coal stockpile
      A view of the blast furnace across classification yard
      Riverfront view of ore bridge and blast furnace
      A view of the inland end of the ore bridge
      Overall view of blast furnace dust/gas cleansing apparatus
      Closeup of dust/gas cleaners
      Top-down view of dust/gas cleaners
      Close-up of stoves and hot blast main
      End view of hot blast main
      Closeup of heating exhaust and cold blast main
      River-front view of stoves and skip hoist
      Close-up of skip hoist and safety-caged stairway
      Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOP) buildings – aerial view
      BOP buildings – seen from ground level
      Teeming area behind BOP
      Rear view of BOP complex, showing baghouse
      BOP charging area
      Hot metal being loaded into BOP furnace vessel
      Ingot stripper and soaking pit building
      Bottle Cars Point-to-Point - Origin
      Bottle Cars Point-to-Point - Destination
      Ingot buggies point-to-point - origin
      Ingot buggies point-to-point - destination
      Slag Pots Point-to-Point - origin
      Slag Pots Point-to-Point - destination
      Heavy machinery at slag dumping pit
      Packaged supplies receiving warehouse
      BOP bulk additives receiving facility
      Scrap metal gondolas at BOP
      Classification yard
      Coal cars approaching rotary dumper
      Rotary dumper in action
      Unloaded Bethgon drifts downhill from rotary dumper
      Empty coal cars are cleared away from dock track
      Coal cars await another mine run