car loads for scrap steel (HO scale). They match the products that would be produced by the Walthers scrap steel processing models (the bailer and hori- zontal shear). Pre-sorted scrap steel and sheared three-foot or less lengths are highly desired by the steel industry and are shipped in great volume in gondolas for use in electric arc fur- naces and basic oxygen furnaces. This Labor Day weekend we will
have a Steel Mill Modelers Meet in Cherry Hill (Philadelphia area), New Jersey. I will be presenting a working seminar on applying decals.
BRANDON WEHE via e-mail
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LED source I saw the editor’s note about the
LED strips in the May letters column. For the record, I found them at LED Wholesalers in the San Francisco Bay area. See
www.ledwholesalers.com. GEORGE GIBSON via e-mail
Address for steel mill details Please update my address for steel
mill modeling castings and decals: Brandon Wehe; 5981 Triple Crown Dr., Medina, OH 44256. The address in Gordon Geiger’s article in the April RMC is for my former home. The article by Gordon on his Ameri-
can Steel Co. electric furnace is spec- tacular. I always enjoy seeing the re- sults of good modelers who know what they are doing. It was especially nice to see my name mentioned in reference to obtaining many of the iron and steel making detail parts for modeling. [These include a teeming ladle, charg- ing ladle, and the face of a coke oven battery.—EDITOR] Most recently I started to produce
The Magarac Society Steel Mill Mod-
elers Meet is Thursday, August 30 through Sunday, September 2, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, N.J. The seminars start on Thursday evening and end on Sunday morning, There will be several steel-mill oriented layouts open over the weekend, too. These meets are outstanding and rep-
resent one more strand of what the hob- by has become and what it can do. As I have said elsewhere, what we collective- ly know about industrial and railroad topics is impressive. Most of us are not employees of industries like steel mills or refineries or railroads, yet we have learned a lot from the sidewalk. I have attended some of these events over the years and hope to find time to get to more of them. The Magarac Society is named after
Joe Magarac, the steel mill equivalent of Paul Bunyan. It does not have any official officials, no meetings other than events like this, and, as far as I can tell, no officers or headquarters with staff that anyone knows of. In this it is about as close to perfect as an organization can be in this hobby. (The Dead Rail- road Society would be another.) Howev- er, they have done several of these meets now, and have contributed to others. For information on the 2012 event, see
www.peachcreekshops.com. BILL SCHAUMBURG
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