@Greg Nagy posted:This looks to be a pretty impressive build. I've known guys working in N that did more compression than you in their mills. If I were to do a furnace, I KNOW mine would have to be compressed, as I'd want to do Dorothy 6 at the USS Duquesne works. Used to see her lighting up the night from my grandparents porch and drove by her daily for a couple of years.
I admit to skimming a bit, so I missed if you have any plans for deliveries/shipments off layout? Is that what the tunnel on the left side is for?
Darn it...now I'll have to spend the week learning about Dorothy 6 and looking at old pics haha 
I'm mostly compressed in the open hearth (it should be at least 3 times longer) and the height of the blast furnaces. I'm also fortunate to have the long side of the L shaped basement be unoccupied and I'm not married yet. So this is a beneficial set of circumstances 
I would skim too. I get long winded when I talk about steel industry stuff. The current plan for off layout operations is just a staging yard on the lower level. The helix on the right leads down to the a lower level. The whole point of that lower level is actually so the coal can drop through the high line at the blast furnace and go into the coal mine below to be loaded into waiting hoppers. I totally stole this idea from NSmodeler24 on Youtube. Since the only required structure on the lower level is a coal mine, I was hoping to put a staging yard for freight to be delivered to the mill from there. There is another option though!
I think that I could add one more level on the basement floor to make an off layout staging yard. It wouldn't be visible normally and it wouldn't have any scenery. So it would be a true staging area. We'll see what happens. The entire layout is currently held up by Home Depot not having 5000K lights in stock like they used to. I don't want to get gung ho on adding another level when I can't even get the lighting handled. I was supposed to have the backdrop completed today and tomorrow but that didn't happen.
On the upside, the first scaled down stove is almost done printing and I placed the first order for some track.
