Some additional background. I grew up in Bethlehem. In the 70's I worked the summers at the Lehigh Plant as an instrument repairmans helper. One of my tasks was a chart run that went throughout the Lehigh Plant. I walked the Hoover Mason Trestle every morning during one segment of the chart run and had the opportunity to get up close and personal with the cars and many of the operators. The opportunity to work at the mill during the summers between my years at Villanova gave me a very detailed understanding of the mill operations from the sintering plant, through the power house, the gas blowing engine house, the blast furnaces, electric furnace, iron foundry, steel foundry, open hearth, machine shop, the wire mill and the plate mill. This is the reason I plan to focus on some form of the Lehigh Plant as I continue to plan my layout build. The challenge will be modeling enough of the mill functions into what will be approx. 30' of linear space. It's like trying to place 40lbs into a 25lb bag.
Thanks for the feedback and encouragement.
