Initial Steel Mill & City Plan

Center Peninsula of Layout

Above is my initial thoughts for the center peninsula of the layout.  It is essentially two 4x8 tables.  The center is the proposed steel mill location.  I am currently showing a single blast furnace, a BOF, casting mill in the center, and three mills along the center of the table.  There will be a divider running the length of the table that the rolling mills would run along.  The main line would run on a raised berm through the mill and then split from two tracks into at least 4 tracks at the station with platforms under the station.  The city part would be raised but would still be at the base level along the edges.  The city would have a waterfront area, industrial area (maybe with a partial auto plant), a downtown, and some housing suburbs.  I am planning on modeling the station after the Michigan Central Depot.  The city will be loosely based on Detroit (very loosely).  The waterfront will have a area representing Heart Plaza, a scaled down Ambassador Bridge, the Riverfront Towers, and other building found in the downtown.  Between the city and the still mill will be a port, to allow product from the mill and surround industries to be shipped out on the Great Lakes to other cities and overseas.

There are a lot of things I like about this layout, but the mill seems to condensed and busy.  I am planning on adding a few feet to the table, and maybe adding a small cement plant.  Of course this is a imaginary at the moment as I wouldn't be able to fit a single table in my small apartment.  Hopefully in the next year or so I will be in a area that will allow me to create this layout, or at least a portion of it.  Currently working on the overall general plan and 3D models of the Coke works, Coke Pusher, and the Yorktown cruise ship.