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Since you're on a low budget you could do like the prototype in small yards. Often locomotives have fuel delivered to them from a tanker truck. Sand towers are not hard to scratch build. You need a place to do light repairs so you need a "Repair In Place" or RIP track. Maybe with a scratch built repair shop with a stall for locos and a car port on the side to do freight car repairs. You can add details and make the facilities larger later. I see in the Walthers sale catalog they sell a diesel fuel facility for $25 plus tax and/or shipping. However you can make more structures for the same amount of money by scratch building it. <br /> A sheet of clapboard styrene, a sheet of plain, a few packs of styrene strips of various sizes, a bit of electrical wire, brass or plastic tubing (check out the plumming department for a storage tank), a pack of small windows, a pack of plain doors, a pack of nozzles from Plastruct (570-95602), a single door electric relay cabinet frm Details West (235-901) and I could scratch build it. And so can you. I've seen what you have built so far on your home page. <br />
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