Welp, unfortunately I gotta reprint the stoves. I have a 20"x20" footprint to fit the blast furnace and three stoves. My current stoves are true 1:48th scale based on a blast furnace here in Youngstown. I scaled the furnace down but not the stoves because I thought it looked decent in the above picture. Now I can see I'll need to do them as well because I couldn't squeeze into that footprint on the test layout. No big deal. The dust collector can stay as is because it has to be located over tracks to load hoppers. So that's good news. I'll start the new stones tonight or tomorrow.
I now have a pretty solid idea of where my high line will go to get material to the furnace. I'm thinking about what I want to do for the supporting structure. Luckily, Youngstown had a high line and some of it remains. This is off of Mahoning Avenue near the water plant by the Mahoning River. I'll probably need to go snap some pictures and get some measurements while everything is dead in winter. It's tough to imagine steam engines chuffing along on bridges that high up but there's railroad tracks up there. The dog will be pumped to go do some exploring haha
