Excellent work as usual. Always fun to see your talents on display.
Here are some progress pictures of the blast furnace assembly. I am making the furnace in two pieces because I cannot place it inside the building in one piece.
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Looks great Alan!
Fantastic!!
Thanks Alan,
Your visual steps in construction has educated me on the Amanda Furnace in Russell KY.
John
I just finished the steel mill. I took many pictures. Here
are a few of them.
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Super job Alan!!! Love the lights too!
I live near the Bethlehem Steel's old Bethlehem plant- that really looks like a portion of the complex!!! Great job!!!(I say a portion b/c the Bethlehem Steel Plant is a mile long)
The lights are a killer touch! It really sets it off! Well done 
Wow Alan!
Very realistic. Beautiful Job.
John
Super. You did it again Alan!
Dave
Immense talent on display!
Nice job Alan. All that work from November, seems like it was a lot longer ago.
Absolutely amazing. What is the foot print of that structure?
Tom
Great job love the spiral stairs and lights especially. Lots of work but worth the effort with your talents.
Alan, thanks for documenting your amazing work! I always enjoy getting to see a bit of your workshop too. Really great to see a project like this, very inspirational!
Tom,
The overall footprint with the tracks is about 24 inches wide by 36 inches deep.
I had a lot of fun with this project. I always dread the light installation and that even went pretty well.
Thank you all for your nice comments.
Magnificent sir!
So many amazing folks here with talents for structures, weathering, electronics, layout design, and correcting of product issues.
Alan, Beautiful build !
Alex
Now you need to get some coal and iron coming in and you're in big business. Let's see some steel.
Wow! That looks awesome!
Wow!!
You packed a lot of wow into that space!
Alan, that is more than amazing to get all of that in a 24x36 space! That makes it possible for steel mills on smaller layouts.
Tom
Spectacular doesn't sound like enough. Your work on the stairs always amazes me.
Great job Alan.
Bob
@Alan Graziano did you leave the sides of the casting floor open for display? Or were the real prototypes open?
Hi Alan,
Absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing this with the forum.
John
Tom,
You can even reduce the footprint more by building against a wall as a facade or reducing the depth of the building by putting it against a wall.
Billy,
Some of the pictures I looked at showed the floor open. In the case of electric furnaces, everything appears to take place in inside a closed building. Blast furnaces are definitely more sexy than modern electric furnaces.
Again I would do like to say thank you all for the nice comments. I would now like you all to start building blast furnaces on your layouts.
Magnificent!
Peter
Awesome modeling!
@Alan Graziano posted:Billy,
Some of the pictures I looked at showed the floor open. In the case of electric furnaces, everything appears to take place in inside a closed building. Blast furnaces are definitely more sexy than modern electric furnaces.
Again I would do like to say thank you all for the nice comments. I would now like you all to start building blast furnaces on your layouts.
It seems like they started being open at some point. I have seen some 1890s-1900s photos where they are closed. Then they suddenly seem to be open.
Blast furnaces are very sexy compared to a modern electric arc furnace. I couldn't have said it better myself! Being in the room with a massive thunderstorm is very exciting though. Granted, I unfortunately never got to visit a working blast furnace. That's one of my greatest regrets. Maybe some day I can accomplish it but I think it's a stretch. They demolished the last blast furnace in Youngstown recently. I think Gary, Indiana and Braddock, Pennsylvania are the only ones I know of.
I'm working on three blast furnaces on my layout! Just need to get that table built for them to sit on haha Mine are very different from this one though. They're an older style so a bit smaller with less structure up top. I can't wait to get them built!
Just want to say again, your work really stands out! This is an impressive structure.
Alan, no layout to build one on. Only layout currently is the Christmas tree layout. I do plan on building one, but no space for any steel mill operations. If by some fortunes, I would definitely do so. Until that day though, I'll have to settle for small room modeling.
P.S., did you say you were going to build steel Mills for everyone(just kidding)?
Very nice!!
@Alan Graziano posted:I would now like you all to start building blast furnaces on your layouts.
@Alan Graziano I posted my blast furnace in this thread I started for my layout build. It's a bit different than your furnace because it's from a different era. But it's something!
Amazing job Alan.
