IRON DIVISION

The two smaller blast furnaces (to be kitbashed from Walthers kits) will be modeled after those at the USS Duluth Works.

	Blast furnace "PW-1" is based on the 1960's furnace plans by Michael Rabbitt and, while the furnace is very large, it is still only 80% of size in the drawings. The furnace proper was built on base measuring 2' x 4' and took five months to build. It is conveyor-fed and utilizes pulverized coal injection to reduce coke consumption.
The casthouse was made from Walthers "Rolling Mill" building parts, as is the structure around the blast furnace stack. The BF stack was partially made from a traffic cone. All track is handlaid code 55 rail. The bottle cars are a mixture of Oriental 200 & 185-ton cars and Walthers cars. Slag cars are Authenticast reproductions.
	The gas washers, dustcatcher and stoves are made from acrylic tubes, Plastruct parts and funnels. The piping uses no commercial bends, but are made from sections of straight tube cut at 12.5 degrees at both ends and glued together to make a bend like the prototype.
The ore yard and highline are also 2'x 4'. The walls of the ore yard are made from sheet plastic and the girders on the highline are scratchbuilt. The ore bridge crane is a scratchbuilt box-girder design. There will be a second ore bridge in the more traditional truss style. Actual iron ore and limestone are used, with taconite from Harley & Sons.
	Pulverized coal is employed to reduce the amount of expensive coke used in the blast furnace. The structures are scratchbuilt from styrene. Transport medium for the pulverized coal is hot stove gas. The facility provides a good excuse to bring in coal cars to the blast furnace complex.
The Material Transfer Car travels the highline to help out the ore bridge operator by speeding material delivery. The car is scratchbuilt from styrene and Evergreen shapes and runs (after a fashion). The drive is from a Japanese MU car.
	Iron-bearing dust from the dustcatcher and gas washers is mixed with coke breeze and fired into a cake in the sintering plant to be put back into the blast furnace. The cylindrical structure is a rotating cooler to bring down the temperature of the sinter before being stored in a hopper. The building is a modified Walthers "Rolling Mill."
The boilerhouse uses blast furnace and coke oven gas to make steam for the turboblower and the works. Inside the Walthers power plant building are two scratchbuilt boilers which unfortunately are difficult to see. The Turboblower supplies a blast of cold air to the stoves and, after heating, to the blast furnace. Inside the City Classics building are two steam turbines attached to two blowers.