Last updated on: Sep 21 2011

2011 Steel Mill Modeler’s Meet
Turf Valley Resort, Ellicott City, MD Sept 1-4, 2011
SMMM 2011 Report and Photos

Some of the attendees gathered for a group photo (?)

 

You have to be SERIOUS when you move an S Scale model railroad. These are Dave Alley's carrying cases.

 

The accuracy and workmanship of Mike Rabbitt's Scinter plant was outstanding.
The model is not overly large and fits in with just about any steel mill.
Wouldn't it be neat if it were available in kit form?

Another view of Mike's scinter plant

 

Mike won the Dean Freytag Award

 

Glenn Sonnier won the Dean Freytag award 3 years ago with this fine model of a large blast furnace.
He has added more detail and has built a second furnace of an earlier design which is shown on the left.
Both were built from Mike Rabbit's plans.

Jim Musser and his son Jimmy have been building some great Free-Mo modules with a steel mill theme.
In the backgrounf is Jim's Foundry and in the foreground is Jimmy's blast furnace.
Jimmy bought the furnace three weeks before the meet and had it built and installed on the module in time for the meet.
The way the module was constructed he didn't have space for the skip hoist so he replaced it with a conveyer system. A very nice touch

 

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Eric Craig likes early 20th Century steel mills and animation.
He brought his early furnace with working skip hoist and impressed everyone with the reliability and simplicity of the system.
All too frequently animation in HO is a bit quirky. Not so with Eric's model.
It worked all weekend! And yes, the hot metal car is lighted. Nice work.

Bob Knappen's N Scale BOF is built full scale. No selective compression. The completeness and detail are staggering.

 

Here is the other side of Bob's BOF. Saying its Superdetailed just doesn't do it justice

 

Bob built the model with full interior detail and lighting.
You can examine the model over and over again and still find more to appreciate.
You begin to get an idea for how big a BOF is when you look at the lower left of the first picture and realize
that you are looking at a scale three story building!

 

We had 2 rooms this year. Last year we were really packed into one room.
This allowed us to have more space for not only models but people.

 

Here's Dave Alley's S Scale mill. Compact and well made.
Dave has had to make virtually everything from sceatch. You gotta be tough to be a S Scaler.

 

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