01-17-2009, 10:13 PM
Just tinkering a little. If I move the mainline to run in the front of the shelf to be able to use backdrop buildings, I'd get about 8'x12" of space. It seems to fit ok on the computer it this setup I did. Just a starting point for an idea.
The electric furnace (lower backdrop building) and rolling mill would be shallow backup buildings. I could probably simply use like the rolling mill kit, cut in half and use each half to represent each building now that I think of it.
Added in some storage tracks at the top for coil cars and flat load slab cars. Most of the industry will be for show, like having the slag track simply run off into the backdrop, or to behind the blast furnace. And one BF track running by itself to the electric furnace.
Honestly, I probably won't ever "operate" the mill, so a design mostly for show that "looks" like it could be operated is fine.
The electric furnace (lower backdrop building) and rolling mill would be shallow backup buildings. I could probably simply use like the rolling mill kit, cut in half and use each half to represent each building now that I think of it.
Added in some storage tracks at the top for coil cars and flat load slab cars. Most of the industry will be for show, like having the slag track simply run off into the backdrop, or to behind the blast furnace. And one BF track running by itself to the electric furnace.
Honestly, I probably won't ever "operate" the mill, so a design mostly for show that "looks" like it could be operated is fine.
Shaun
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