Steel Products and Wagon Loading

Steel comes in a large range of shapes and sizes to suit many needs. Raw slab and billet are sold as such, but most of it is processed into other products, such as, plate, sheet, bar, rod, wire and RHS/RSJ structural beams to name a few. This page will help modellers load their wagons with appropriate size steel products.

Availabilty of steel loads:

Slab and Billet – Scaleways

Coil Wire, Coil sheet – Auscision Models

Plate Steel – IDR Models

RSJ – Auscision Models and Evergreen Styrene

Pipe and Tubes – Auscision Models and Evergreen Styrene

Loading Examples:

Slab – 1.25m x 230mm x 12m long

Billet – 90-160mm square x 12m long

Feedstock –

Blooms – 630mm x 400mm x 5-6m long.

Bar –

Wire/Rod –

Sheet Steel –

Coiled Plate – Coils range from 1.4m to 2.1m diameters.

RHS Beams –

RSJ – ‘Rolled Structural Joist’ such as ‘I’ and ‘H’ beams come in many cross-section sizes but are sold in lengths from 2.4m – 14m, the length increasing in increments of 300mm.

Pipes – Pipe traffic has been varied over the years. Household plumbing pipes were made in short 3ft lengths and gradually increased over time. Industrial uses for plumbing pipes had pipes made in 40ft lengths and transported on TME wagons.

Pipes were generally carried in open wagons, with flat wagons carrying special and small consignments. Today larger industrial pipe and main gas line piping is still carried in open wagons.

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