A couple of photos here of a modern facility:
https://railshine.com/en/products/locomotive-fuelling-service-station/
Cheers, Ed
I wouls start by looking at prototype engine facilities. When was it built? Was it up graded? What RR's owned it? All play a roll in how those vents look and are set up. After doing the google bing thing, go into the hobby and see what is there. Dont forget regular roof vents as they might fit the "close enough" bill. Newer upgraded vents are just square duct. So kitbash and scratch might be simple as well. All depending on what the vent looks like.
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
Attuvian I refuse to add anymore complications to my internet connections, so no photos, but Wayne's are like the one I put on an HO icehouse, long ago. (The Rusty Stump castings were a little fancier, with the vents inset framed into built up walls.) Using ESM styrene or Northeastern wood 1/16" clapboard siding for the slats will be quick, easy, and look good, as you can see. Have fun! Deano OT Dean . . . . I bought a pair without flagpoles and they were worth the price, which was in the 'teens--20 bucks or so with the shipping. . . . Deano Thanks, Deano. Can you post a picture of them - or is the building on which you installed them long gone? John
Deano
OT Dean . . . . I bought a pair without flagpoles and they were worth the price, which was in the 'teens--20 bucks or so with the shipping. . . . Deano
If the structure is open-sided, it might have a cupola, but it might not need even that.
For the small roundhouse on the upper level of my layout, I added smoke hoods in the roof framework, with exhaust stacks on the roof. It's implied that each hood has a blower fan, but I didn't bother modelling them, nor much other interior detail, either...
In all the steel mills in which I worked, locomotives ran in and out of the buildings constantly, and with the heavy trains, were almost always working hard. Even if they had been steam locomotives, I doubt that many would have noticed much difference in the air quality.
We generally preferred to work on cloudy days, as the dirt and steel dust were harder to see - on sunny days, the air literally glinted with the floating particles.
I used Evergreen clapboard siding to build the ice house at Lowbanks, and also used it for the rooftop ventilators, as Deano mentioned...
Wayne
Attuvian Gotta finish off a project for an open-sided shelter over an engine service/inspection pit. Era is, oh, mid-60s. What kind of roof ventilators would one expect to find on such a structure? Is anything produced as a detail part that might do (rather than something that needs to be fabricated)? Thanks, John
Gotta finish off a project for an open-sided shelter over an engine service/inspection pit. Era is, oh, mid-60s.
What kind of roof ventilators would one expect to find on such a structure? Is anything produced as a detail part that might do (rather than something that needs to be fabricated)?
Thanks,
John