yet ANOTHER revision
Paid a visit to my storage trailer yesterday, and picked up a couple of already build structures I had,.. for measurement/fitting purposes.
The first one I unboxed was a portion of the steel mill structures that I had pretty much decided not to include on my layout,....the electric furnace. I discovered it had a number of the interior appointments including the HD crane, lighting, etc. I set it in where I had originally placed the 'rail rebuilders' structure and found it fit pretty well. Now I believe I am going to include it, and find another spot for the rebuilders.
I needed to make a final decision on how I was going to cut the portion of the upper deck over this steel mill scene, and fit in my refinery. I've got a number of new unbuilt kits of the refinery, the loading ramps, MULTIPLE tanks, etc. I also had one built up piece I had bought a long time ago. I cut it into segments so I could try to use it to visualize how I might arrange things up there. I didn't really get a chance to work on that aspect, but I did decide how I was going the cut out the 'relief' to clear the blast furnace tower.
So I proceeded to cut out the big deck section, ....and make the multiple small recuts to the very corner of that deck to make it fit my slightly 'out-of-square' shed's walls in the corner....lots of fun and multiple lifts of that big piece of plywood.
....the refinery piece is just set randomly up there for perspective at the moment.....
I'm happy with the clear space between the decks,..
(that photocopy of the diesel engine service facility was put there to show another friend of a friend some of the structures I was going to place around the layout. Did that same sort of thing for a number of spots)
Going to work on drilling the bolt holes for the deck piece today, then cut out the big upper corner piece for the other side. If I get time I may play around with my 'entrance-way pull down bridge'.