Compact Steel Mill plan?

[nolatron]

First excellent idea! You're more of a modeler then I am..

I won't touch a steel mill because of the require space for the buildings,inbound track for coal,ore,scrap steel,inbound loads,inbound/outbound empties etc.

Best of luck my friend..

Yeah, I started to think the space needed to model the mill would be more than I'd ever have, but I think I can get away with selectively compressing the industry and modeling just like the inner workings basically. All of the in/out loads tracks, docks, etc.. would simply be located "off layout", and operations would be minimal.

It may not exactly be prototypical, but simple operations could be:
- moving loaded/unloaded coal cars to the coke ovens from the mainline
- Internal switching of cars to/from blast furnace to mill
- moving loaded/unload coil cars from the mill to mainline

I know, it's a crazy idea!

I just wonder if these buildings will just "overpower" the layout because of their size. The top 2" of the blast furnace will be hidden by fascia because it's so tall! Guess there's only one way to find out!