Go to Walthers website and check out Durango Press they make a lot of neat ON30 stuff just like what your looking for. I saw a jib crane that look cool and that would be something a servicing facility would need for lifting a locomotive or a car lets say for changing wheels or any number of heavy lifting tasks.
If it's an oil-fired steamer, you won't need to have an ash pit or coaling facilities. You could even use the same fuel-oil and loading facilities for the diesel.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
A couple of bucketloads usually take care of the sanding issues. Gotta keep the guys in shape ya know!
mm i like the idea of a conveyor belt for feeding in and taking out... might have to bring it up to the next board meeting. could that also be used for sanding or is the quantity of sand negligeable to haul?
Steam loco's on my RR fed water from a tower, a newer luxury for my crews. Before that, they had to use a hose and hand pump setup. Sand is still done by the bucket brigade and wheelbarrow. Coal used to be done by a wheelbarrow that used a ramp to a raised platform (tender height) and dumped in that way, but management recently saw fit to invest in two angled conveyer bucket units on wheels that are equipped with small gas motors. (The guys never had it so good!) Management justified this by reasoning that the same conveyers could also be used to clean out the ash pits when needed. The conveyers still need to be fed by shovel power though, so it's not all fun and games on the RR.
Someplace to dump ashes is necessary for steamers, but it doesn't "have" to be a pit. If you dump on a service track then it will have to be cleaned off more often, and, it will eventually burn out the wooden ties. If you go this way, you could model the tie damage to give the scene some history.
As for "D" word loco's, them's still fightin' words on the Autumns Ridge Railway & Navigation Company lines!
My On30 layout has a short spur that is dedicated for engine servicing. Being that the railroad is "poor"( it is afterall still reeling from the great depression) , servicing has to be bare minimum. the brass hat has already approved a water tower and a coal shed, theres a plan to build a small sand house but wondering what else is essential? Is the ash pit mandatory? can a small diesel be refueled from say a drum set up with a small pump ?The line Mogul and a small diesel are the only one needing servicing