01-12-2009, 01:34 PM
doctorwayne Wrote:Josh, of course you're crazy: you're a model railroader!
hehehe
of coarse, were all crazy some of us just being a little more crazy then others 
doctorwayne Wrote:In your steel plant scenario, you've left out one important detail: The blast furnace produces iron, not steel. There are many processes for making steel from iron, but the most common is in BOFs (Basic Oxygen Furnaces), or in open hearth furnaces. While these will both use up more space than your blast furnace, the good news (at least as far as expense goes) is that both of these facilties are more or less enclosed in large structures, and, if you model the proper side of the building, a few doors for trucks and trains will take care of the major details.
ahhhh well see i knew i was forgetting something.
So if i understand this correctly, the molten iron goes to the BOF or Open Hearth Furnace and then goes to the Rolling Mill?
doctorwayne Wrote:There's no reason why you can't dream of someday building such a layout, and, as long as you can dream it, there's always the possibility that you will succeed. If you cease to dream it, you have no chance of success.
That is very true, and its been the case with my previous layouts i have done. I never would have thought i could do any of the stuff i have done in the past few years in this hobby..... You just have to know what you want and work towards it, and sometimes that can be quite difficult to know what you want lol