it's been awhile i am about 90% done with this area
jeff
That looks great!
Where did you find those loading racks, and how many did you install?
Mark P.
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Brunton wrote: That looks great!Where did you find those loading racks, and how many did you install?
Yeah, those loading racks are nice. Great looking scene.
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All that piping looks great ! You've got quite a layout.
Nice city buildings in the background.
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Jeff,
It looks great!! Very nice work....
Don Z.
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thanks. they are walthers oil loading platforms. i used 8 of them
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thanks art & rt poteet. rt you should'nt hate me cause i like you. LOL
art if i can get my mountains to look half as good as yours i would be very happy
I would not have expected those Walthers racks to look that good. I was resigned to scratch-building some out of brass (yikes!), but I'll certainly reconsider after seeing how great they look on your layout, Jeff!
Thanks a lot - you probably saved me uncounted hours of work!
this looks GREAT!
i'd love to see some more of your layout...
GARRY
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Nice Work! Reminds me of driving through Ponca City
Joe Daddy
jpmorrison wrote:it's been awhile i am about 90% done with this area jeff
thanks for all the compliments
Thanks for the link JP. That really turned out nice. The platform or unloading/loading side of it, adds a awhole lot to it. :D
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Very Nice Tank farm so far! Where did you find the piping? That really makes it more realistic. I will have to get some. Is it from Walthers?
Rob
Rob2112 wrote: Very Nice Tank farm so far! Where did you find the piping? That really makes it more realistic. I will have to get some. Is it from Walthers? Rob
It looks like the Refinery Piping kit with three pipes instead of four.
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VERY NICE! A great way to squeeze a major plant into an awkward space.
I hate to quibble,but having perused a lot of bulk plant photos, I suggest that the levees should be much higher and surrounding each tank. Each one has to be able to retain the overflow from the tank or they would be worthless.
There alwasy seems to be some differences of opinion about berms and or dikes around storage tanks. I believe this is so because there are what are known as terminals where millon gallon tanks are the norm and bulk plants which are usually owned by a local oil company and are from 10,000 to 20.000 gallons on average. The current EPA regulatios allows groups of tanks to have a a single berm if it will contain 110% of the capacity of the largest tank within the berm Also the berm is aupposed to impervious as well as the floor. However, with that said it really depends on the era that you are modeling. In real lif I know of one major oil co that put cement dike around tanks in 1930 and just used earth in the 1950's. So before the EPA regulation of 1988 it was purely up to the oil company and the local fire marshall.
Just my 2cts worth.
Bob.................I sure like your installation and the piping!!!
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You will enjoy the very long and comprehensive article in this months (Aug) Scale Rails on the Augusta (KS) oil refinery. My aunt has lived in August for about 60 years and I've vivid memories of that refinery with its Sconey Mobil Flying Red Horse sign and that huge flame that seemed to go for ever. The whole town smelled like 90 weight gear lube! And I remember Augusta had the worst tasting water in the universe, well, Kansas and Oklahoma anyway!
Your tank farm is up there in quality with the one this fellow built in Scale Rails. Great job friend!
Joe
Nice terminal!!!! I joined up two of the walthers loading racks and did some customizing to bring the source pipes "underground" to come up again at the various storage tanks. You really had your work cut out for you putting 8 of them together. For those others that read this, note that Walthers has two piping kits that can work with the racks - or any other place dealing with oil.
My racks are in association with a bulk oil/lpg terminal, using various Walthers kits. As I've spent 40 years in the bizzness, and worked at several refineries and a couple of terminals, building a terminal was the only way I could come up with something halfway realistic. When visitors call it a "refinery", I cringe, and explain that I would need a very, very large room filled to the brim with tanks/pipes/vessels/buildings/etc. to even get near having one.
Thanks for the look see!!
Mobilman44
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mobilman44 wrote: Jeff,Nice terminal!!!! I joined up two of the walthers loading racks and did some customizing to bring the source pipes "underground" to come up again at the various storage tanks. You really had your work cut out for you putting 8 of them together. For those others that read this, note that Walthers has two piping kits that can work with the racks - or any other place dealing with oil.My racks are in association with a bulk oil/lpg terminal, using various Walthers kits. As I've spent 40 years in the bizzness, and worked at several refineries and a couple of terminals, building a terminal was the only way I could come up with something halfway realistic. When visitors call it a "refinery", I cringe, and explain that I would need a very, very large room filled to the brim with tanks/pipes/vessels/buildings/etc. to even get near having one.Thanks for the look see!!Mobilman44
You must post some pics of your progress! As Im trying to get a feel for what Im getting into here myself.. Haha
I am in the planning stages of my refinery and am curious what track spacing is required for the walthers platforms?
Thanks,
joe-daddy wrote: Jeff,You will enjoy the very long and comprehensive article in this months (Aug) Scale Rails on the Augusta (KS) oil refinery. My aunt has lived in August for about 60 years and I've vivid memories of that refinery with its Sconey Mobil Flying Red Horse sign and that huge flame that seemed to go for ever. The whole town smelled like 90 weight gear lube! And I remember Augusta had the worst tasting water in the universe, well, Kansas and Oklahoma anyway! Your tank farm is up there in quality with the one this fellow built in Scale Rails. Great job friend! Joe
Do you have any personal pictures of that Augusta Oil Refinery? I'd also love to see that magazine, and am having a heck of a time trying to acquire a back issue of it! I am modeling a big portion of that refinery and need to know what the 2 rail spurs off the main line serviced? ANY info would be great! I will post pics of progress soon.
Thanks!
N737AA wrote: I am in the planning stages of my refinery and am curious what track spacing is required for the walthers platforms?Thanks,
I used 3 3/8" spacing and it seems to work good
from inside tie to tie is 1 3/4 inch and i did cut the pipe from 4 down to 3