AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME !!!

That is so well balance, the buildings are so well distributed. Just looking at the photos it looks so busy. I love it ! If you are planning to do this on your layout, please keep us posted. It is a very well thought out concept.  

Hoping

Hi Nick,

Yes when I first saw this 'compactness' I thought it was going to help me put such a scene on my new layout,...but I am beginning to have doubts. That blast furnace as a whole piece is just too big of a footprint, particularly if you want to include some of the trackage out front.

Perhaps I could cut down on some of the blast furnace depth by just using a front section of the kit, but I would surely NOT cut up my assembled and weather kit to accomplish this. Maybe I could find a really damaged blast furnace from someone??
 

Or perhaps i will have to settle for a photo backdrop of this scene, and then have the trackage and steel related cars out front of the photo?? At least then I would have some actual switching opportunities available.

I have a tentative place on the layout plan for a 'steel mill complex'.

Impressive

Very impressive!  Also great use of the space.

Joe

Very Very nice Brian.

Very Very nice Brian.

Coke Oven

On that same layout in Orlando I saw the Coke Ovens (associated with steel making) separated off on another portion of the layout, as a separate industry.

 

Those are well done!

I worked in a steel mill and saw up close the coke oven (batteries) and that model is very well done.  There would be a "quench tower" where the rail car of coke would be doused with water.  Coke is coal heated in the absence of air.  After the gases are driven off (and some then distilled into solvents like benzene, toluene, and xylene) the coke oven is opened and the coke pushed out into a rail car.  The coke would burst into flame having been exposed to the atmosphere and then the car would be pushed under the quench tower to put out the fire.  Then the coke would  be railed over to the blast furnace. 

I want to model some steel mill operations on my layout but won't have this much room so will have to only have a few buildings (if that) and rely on backdrop.  If I was freelancing it would be "Bacckdrop Steel Corporation".  

There are all kinds of rail and switching opportunities with a steel mill.  

Mark

Steel Mill Site Location & Elevated Stone Arch Bridge Trackage

Experiment with Referencing a Specific Posting

This should take you to my considerations when trying to fit a steel mill scene into my new layout plan. I'm having trouble with the footprint size of that Walthers blast furnace, etc.

Steel Mill Site Location & Elevated Stone Arch Bridge Trackage
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/interesting-track-plan-tupper-lake-faust-junction-12208132

Not to invade on an older thread..

...but a while ago, I bought a magazine that had an article on someone’s O scale layout. It was a very small space setup, and yet, offered a complete Coke plant’s worth of switching fun! The entire coke plant looked quite impressive, and not only that, but the coke oven was actually opened by a narrow-gauge rail vehicle. And there was a custom-made quench car. The railroad’s power was a pair of GE 44 tonners I believe. They were painted silver. The coke oven opener was custom made, and mounted on a bachman ‘critter’ chassis, at least, this is what my memory recalls the article saying. I will see if I can find the article, maybe I can post the layout plan, and a picture. I’d post the article if I could, but that’s a dodgy thing to do, and I don’t want to be causing trouble.