I need a modern ho scale power plant.I have looked all over and can't find one i like.If anyone could give me a web site to go to I would be extremely gratefull.
Waltherns produced two diferent versions of power plants in HO scale. I believe this have been out of production for a while, so your best bet is just to keep your eye out on eBay.
PUBLISHED PLANS/PHOTOS OF ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS Coal-fired on Mississippi River BN N-scale "project" layout Model Railroader Feb90 p.97: _Mod RRer_ June90 p.92 coal-fired: "modern coal burning powerhouse". coal board ad. Business Week magazine Aug 6, 1955 p.155 cooling tower, 44,000 gallons of water/minute, for Kansas Power & Light pix Business Week magazine Aug 25, 1956 p.14 Duke Power Co. turbines, Riverbend steam station, Mt. Holly, North Carolina Business Week magazine Nov.19,1955 p.24 Dynamos, interior view of Philadelphia Electric Co. Cromberg Station. Business Week magazine May 5, 1956 p.139 power plants, pix of 54 plants in 4 page spread, including CPL Lon Hill and HL&P Webster Business Week magazine Sept 3, 1955 p.48 Southern California Edison Co of 1920s, pix, plans Model Railroader July75 p.43 web links re a 1950s Power Plant in Austin Texas Seaholm Power Plant built 1951-1958 pix of Seaholm Power Plant www.ultramagnetic.com/seaholm.htm Artist’s conception for redevelopment of Seaholm power plant shows relation to RR/ area http://www.seaholm.info/ Some pix of part of Seaholm as seen from North side www.casengineers.com/sppr.html Hope this helps.
Depends a bit on the plant you want - we would assume coal fired, but there is nuclear and (presumably) oil fired too. I don't think you mean wind or hydro, but they are modern Plenty of industrial building kits could be aggregated into passable power plant if scratching isn't your thing. There are plenty of substation/transformer parts to do the electric parts.
Walthers has a coal power plant in their 75th Anniversery Catalogue don't know if it is what you are looking for. It's on page 462 or check the website at: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3021 Hope this helps... Cheers,
Scratchbuilding is (in theory) starting with the basic materials like sheet and strip plastic and/or metal and/or wood and making your building / loco / whatever 'from scratch'. In practice people tend to buy a lot of the smaller details, and even things like trucks, and add them to their scratchbuilt thing. It's a lot of work and I wouldn't do that, but it's a personal choice. I was suggesting 'kitbashing' which is where you get one or more kits, or parts of kits, that are close to what you want and 'adapt' them to get the result needed. This may involve very little or a lot of work, depending on what you want and what is available. The kits can be from different makers and even other scales, so can you end up with a fairly unique structure. Eg, for your power plant you might take a couple of industrial buildings joined together to make a turbine hall plus boiler room, a chimney from somewhere (or just a piece of pipe) on the side, a coal depot chopped up a bit to provide bunkers with some conveyors (Walthers do kits of these), an electric substation and maybe some cooling plant. Bear in mind that modern plants are big, so you will probably have to do quite a bit of 'selective compression'. Not sure what cooling is common in the US, but cooling towers could be done as a painted backdrop rather than solid modelled. If you want to do this rather than take whatever kit is available (I suspect the one Flames is pointing too may not suit as you said 'modern') then you really need to begin by getting some pictures of the sort of plant you want - aerial photos are probably best. Then you can look through the catalogues/internet until you find things that will make an approximation of it.
My dad works in a power plant so it wont be hard to git information.He should know every thing about them.
