Looking for HO scale refinery?

[Pruitt]

Another relatively small refinery (that doesn't exist anymore - but I got pictures before they bulldozed it! [:D]) was the Husky refinery in Cody, Wyoming. In fact, there were many small refineries all over the oil producing lands of the west,m in the 1930s-1950s.

The biggest problem with the plastic refinery models is with the handrails, walkways and such. They're so out of scale (the handrails are roughly a scale foot in diameter!) that they make the entire thing look toylike.

I received one of the Walthers refineries as a gift, and I plan on doing a lot of modifications to eliminate the grossly out-of-scale features.

[GAPPLEG]

Actually the Walthers refinery isn't that bad, I have seen refineries in odd places that weren't much bigger than that. Go on I-40 between Grants and Gallup NM. the Giant refinery, isn't !! . It's very small, It's owned by one of the indian tribes I believe, and the gas is sold mostly at their own stations. On my layout I actually used the n scale refinery in an Ho layout just ti get the representation of a local type refinery. Some work to be done yet but it looks ok.

[Anonymous]

From what I have seen, the problem is that the refinery kits are way too small relative to what a real refinery would be. Perhaps they could be a model of a process within a refinery. As far as suggestions go, I guess you could get several kits and make one installation from them, or scratch build additional refinery equipment. Another idea comes to mind as I type this; use a couple of the kits in the fore ground and have a background picture for the rest of the refinery. These are my thoughts, anyway.

[Anonymous]

Hey Everyone

I am looking for an HO scale refinery.

I found a couple:
Walthers North Island Refinery (sold out)
Vollmer
Plastrust.

But none of them look like a real refinery.

Any suggestions?