Still slogging away at my Copper smelter module. The Cupola Furnace Building and attached Boiler House are just about complete. Just a couple more doors and a little interior detailing inside the openings and then weathering.
Below is an overall view of the Jacobsville sandstone Cupola Furnace Building (right) and attached reinforced concrete Boiler House (left). 18" narrow gauge tracks will service all three doors on the front of the Cupola Furnace building, all connected via small turntables.
Below we see the boiler House end of the structure. All lights are of the "pin and sequin" type I posted a couple of weeks ago. The Machine Shop, also built of Jacobsville sandstone will be located behind the Boiler House.
View below of the other end of the Cupola Furnace Building. The large opening on the upper level will be served by another 18" narrow gauge line supported on a spindly steel trestle and will connect to the Briquetting plant and the slag dump.
Photo below shows the center door of the Cupola Furnace Building provided access to an elevator which took the manually operated cars up to be discharged into hoppers on the upper floor. The aggregate was mixed on the second floor and then charged the furnace below. The door to the elevator was raised vertically in tracks, counter weighted by the large iron weight seen hanging to the right.
Below we see a close-up of the upper level of the elevator tower at the front of the Cupola Furnace building. Another "ball pin and sequin" light and a scratch-built vent stack.
The rack of three large fire extinguishers below allowed for fires to be fought from the exteriors of both the Boiler House and Cupola Furnace Building. I didn't have any fire extinguisher castings on-hand, so these were scratch-built out of styrene sprue and "bits" from the scrap bin.
A close up of the main entry into the Cupola Furnace Building showing the counterweight system with which it was raised and lowered.
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