This idea is shamelessly stolen from another forum. Thought it might be fun here. I'll kick it off with a couple of shots. 1st is the propane dealer from my former layout 2nd is the propane dealer in process on my new layout
BNSF F, That's looking good. I like the dirt portion, it looks like some sort of cloth material. What did you use/ Carl
It's actually Woodland Scenic buff ballast and white glue. I hate that it has that seam in the middle so may try and fix that at some point. Was my own fault as I did the layout and thought it looked okay and then after I had poured the first pad, I realized everything was too tight and had to add an extension.
Here is what I have done -- hopefully, it represents a mid '50's era bulk oil/propane dealer Thanks, Wolf
My harbor power house with fuel supplies in the white tanks. In front of the tanks is a fuel transport barge. To the right is a fuel lighter vessel for transporting fuel to the lager vessels. Next on the right is the marine fuel depot and ship fueling dock silver and gray tanks. Heating oil is brought in the the island by tank cars on the car float and then transferred to trucks for delivery. 000_1361-4 by John Moore posted Dec 31, 2019 at 12:44 PM 000_1362-5 by John Moore posted Dec 31, 2019 at 12:54 PM
This thread is now bookmarked. I will be following closely and taking notes. Maybe someday I'll have a contribution.
Bulk Oil Distributor with POL Shed The tanks have 'floating roofs' that can be moved up and down. There are holes under the layout under each tank. I can push the roofs down and slide a small steel rod up through the holes and raise the roofs again. The scene is constantly changing this way
Looks great Wolf. Think you nailed the 50's feel there but that tanker truck is making me a bit nervous.......
I had a gas station on my previous layout, as seen at the lower left. Being an anthracite coal hauler, my railroad covertly paid local legislators to forbid sale or use of fuel oil in any applications along our lines. (The large brick factory there is Kittanning Paint Co. and those tanks are full of chemicals. )
That movie was a great psychological thriller. I also wish Trainworx would re-issue their movie trucks. For those who are not sure what we are talking about, Wolf's Peterbilt 281 with the 33' tanker is from the movie "Duel" staring Dennis Weaver. I believe that is the first movie Steven Spielberg directed.
Here's an old shot of mine, but it does show off the best feature - it's right against a front-reflective mirror, and you really have to study it to find the mirror line. The signal bridge is ON the mirror surface, and half the tanks you see are reflected. This is loosely modelled on the regional fuel dealer east of the Flagstaff, AZ depot that was there for many years. I've found out a lot more about it since, and also that it needs a WHOLE lot of weathering..... It was still out there and I got detailed photos of it in 2006, and that grubby spur that waded through the weeds to get to it turned out to be half the fun.
Great idea this thread ! This is a bulk diesel fuel dealer that I finished about a year ago. It is in Battle Mountain, Nevada on my home layout. Diesel is brought in by rail from the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California. The fuel is transferred to tanker trucks for delivery to remote mining sites that use it for those large mining machines and dump trucks.
Here is a gas station I built back in the 1990's. It is a Wally's filling station kit that I modified by removing the roof that is over the pumps from the building and made it as a separate piece so the whole thing could fit into the space I had available on one of my Ntrak modules. I used a total of 64 decals from several Micro Scale sets in finishing the model. The sign on the corner slowly rotates the way many of them did back in the old days. In high school I had worked in a gas station and used memories of that to add some of the details. The module was rebuilt a few years ago and this gas station was the one thing included in the new scenery.
