Does anyone know of any electrical generating power plant building structures or kits available on the market in HO scale? Would like to have a destination for my coal trains.
Thanks, Rob
Walthers. Northern Light & Power and Tri-State Power I think they are called.
I tried both names on Walthers website and came up with nothing. Thanks anyway
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3021
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3025
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You must have terrible spelling,
http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?category=Structure&scale=H&manu=walthers&item=&keywords=northern+light&words=restrict&instock=Q&showdisc=Y&split=30&Submit=Search
If you leave the word powerhouse out, nothing comes up on Walther's website. Thanks for locating it for me.
Let's not forget this one:
http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/powerplant.aspx
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
What era are you modeling? These are ok for small power plants, but if you are running 30 to 120 car unit coal trains and want a loop for turning and dumping cars.
This sort of a plant is easy to build since you just have to paint a few boxes as buildings and some pipes for smokestacks, and miles and miles of real estate for the turning loop.
Here is a photo of a modern power plant:
Here is the rest of the story, there are actually two separate power plants right next to each other, each has its own turning loop for unit trains, these are "captive unit trains" coming from mines less than 20 miles away, although now they are taking Wyoming coal since it is lower sulfur content.
Some coal is deliverd directly from the mine via an overhead conveyor system.
ROAR
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Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
here is my Walther's kit in the background. The sub-station in the foreground is also a Walther's kit. If you look closely, the Power Plant has two separate add on details kits. One is the turbine and furnace details, while another is an over head crane. If you check out the Walther's Flyer for Feb, most of the power plat related kits are on sale.
Derek
Thanks so much for the info.
Design Preservation Models (DPM) also has a power plant that is quite easy to kit bash. I am in the middle of building one with additions. Also saw at least two kitbashed versions at Springfield on Sunday.
Mark
For the fuel burning and steam generating part of the power plant, I once found a inch-square photo and built two "burner" units from it...
I freelanced a way for a coal dump track to go behind and under the back of the burners...probably not too likely in real life but one way to compress a bunch of complicated looking stuff for the layout. The plant I copied also happened to be a natural gas burning plant, may have been major differences in the burners. Now I know. But I had fun and it looked fairly impressive...