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early progress at NJHR Silk City Refinery
Big City Refinery
Showoff!!
--Greg
Someone ban JohnS from the Forum! The rest of us ordinary human beings just can't build such a work of art.
Where's the NJ Turnpike?
This is an HO scale refinery version I built but should give you an idea.
Below is a small propane distribution network that could work for other product.
There are also various loading platforms you can place beside your track.
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Someone ban JohnS from the Forum! The rest of us ordinary human beings just can't build such a work of art.
don't shoot me,I am just the photographer
Stan's Tanks, but he only sells his stuff at York and maybe other trade shows, i.e. no Website.
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Dennis
Here's a few of Stan's Tanks sold through Scenic Express:
http://www.sceneryexpress.com/...neous/products/1201/
I can make custom models.
Joe
With Stan's Tanks, you had better be interested in a modern, megamerger oil company,
that he has for sale there, for he is not interested in doing regional, and maybe defunct, brands. I scratchbuilt two different oil depots, picking up tanks to letter elsewhere. I just built a couple more tanks from a Korber kit to add to those.
Plastruct makes much of the fittings and tubing for a refinery, but I would want plans
and do a lot of research before tackling one. They look like a snake nest, but there
has to be method to that madness.
Things have definately improved since Quaker Oats oatmeal boxes were the primary source for oil storage tanks...
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Things have definately improved since Quaker Oats oatmeal boxes were the primary source for oil storage tanks...
How about the coffee cans that used to be shorter but with a larger diameter?
You picked a great time to start a refinery. Go to Walmart and you can buy 6 inch diameter holiday tree globes. They are very inexpensive spherical tanks for O gauge. There was a story in OGR on using them. If you want to spend a lot of money Plastruck makes a full O kit. Both Lionel and MTH make tanks and operating accessories for a tank yard. Walthers made a oil truck loading station that I believe Atlas now sells. Item #6908 O Deep Rock Gas & Oil Kit has a MSRP $76.95.
An internet search can provide many photos of real tank farms.
Paul Goodness
If your looking to just model a Terminal or Tank farm, it doesn't have to be complicated or very large. Some Terminals are spread out or seperated for various reason. Safety and fire are some. Last Terminal I worked at had the main Terminal with just 2 buildings. An office with a maintenance shop, and 8 vertical tanks, with a loading area for 2 tankers with overhead roofing such as a service station. This main had Diesel, Bunker, Heating oil, Kerosene, and a high octane and regular gasoline tank, Medium grade of course was a mixture from the high octane and regula gas tanks.
Their #2 Terminal was a 1/1/2 mile away with just 3 storage tanks, 2 regular, and 1 High Octane. 2 buildings, Lab and maintenance storage. Had a 3 bay truck/tanker loading area, no overhead roofing.
The #3 Terminal was 2 miles away and had just 2 large gasoline storage tanks, a small building were operators stayed and did their paperwork for the drivers. A 2 bay loading area for trucks/tankers. There was also 2 slim vertical Aviation Fuel storage Tanks lightly away from the Gasoline tanks, running in between were 2 tracks. These tracks were for the Aviation fuel which came, and also for Butane cars, (Butane was piped to gasoline storage tanks and used to raise Octane levels from bad gasoline)This bad gasoline usually sold by small independent refineries to Terminals at a very low price, rather then reprocess, or many times un-acceptable gasoline made for California Market, or gasoline coming from overseas and spoiled.
You could just model 1 of the 3, or all 3 spread over the layout.
Here's a few of Stan's Tanks sold through Scenic Express:
http://www.sceneryexpress.com/...neous/products/1201/
The manway hatch should be turned to the side. Be heck to unbolt and have to raise and enter, rather then turn to the side and out. Modeled wrong.
Josef is right on with the tank's clean out manway, BUT the tank is a great looking tank. The clean out manway is a high pressure manway good for a few thousands of pounds of pressure the steel Texaco tank is only good for a few pounds of pressure. 100 pounds of pressure on the Texaco tank would make a very big bomb.
I used a MTH tank car loading platform and Lionel tanks and a 10" plastic pipe cap to make the gasoline and diesel tanks. I have added a round propane tank that is made from a 8" Walmart Christmas globe to the tank farm. The 2 gray tanks on the left is an oilfield tank battery for the crude oil, to the left in the picture is a oil well with pumping unit and a gas well (red wellhead)with a high pressure production unit to remove the water and oil from the well's natural gas. In between the gray field tanks and the white finished products tanks would be Alan's Esso refinery in the "Real" world.
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Josef is right on with the tank's clean out manway, BUT the tank is a great looking tank. The clean out manway is a high pressure manway good for a few thousands of pounds of pressure the steel Texaco tank is only good for a few pounds of pressure. 100 pounds of pressure on the Texaco tank would make a very big bomb.
I used a MTH tank car loading platform and Lionel tanks and a 10" plastic pipe cap to make the gasoline and diesel tanks. I have added a round propane tank that is made from a 8" Walmart Christmas globe to the tank farm. The 2 gray tanks on the left is an oilfield tank battery for the crude oil, to the left in the picture is a oil well with pumping unit and a gas well (red wellhead)with a high pressure production unit to remove the water and oil from the well's natural gas. In between the gray field tanks and the white finished products tanks would be Alan's Esso refinery in the "Real" world.
Very impressive Terminal set-up.
Paul is right....I was the one that wrote the article that appeared in OGR on how to use the large Christmas tree ornaments to build a spherical tank. Very easy and inexpensive....
Alan
Here are the steps in pictures:
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Thanks Carl!!
Alan
Here are a few pictures of a group of tanks I built from 4" PVC and plumbing caps. I incorporated a Lionel tank as well and then detailed with Plastruct parts for the walkway, etc....
Alan