Tank car unloading
For the kinds of petroleum products handled at oil dealers like
this one, a simple hose to attach to the tank car bottom outlet
would suffice for gravity unloading (though the pumping sys-
tem was used to move the product to its storage tank). All that
needs to be modeled is some suitable hoses on the ground.
Figure 7 shows the kind of thing I mean. The simplest way to
do this is to use the unloading pipe from the McGraw Oil kit
parts, which is what I did. For hose, I used a coiled piece of No.
22 wire with black insulation, painting each end Tamiya “Dark
Copper” to represent bronze couplings. One can show such a
hose connected to piping, or not.
The truck load-
ing facility
Bulk oil dealers usually
operated tank trucks for
local delivery, and, of
course, had to be able
to load trucks from the
storage tanks. I built a
simple, small facility of
this kind, starting with
the platform for the
smaller structure in the
McGraw Oil kit, plus the
loading pipe from the
kit. I added side walls
and a roof, as is com-
mon in these structures.
It’s shown unpainted,
before attachment of
the roof, in (32).
32: The truck loading facility,
white styrene attached to the
gray platform from the McGraw
Oil kit, before adding a roof
and painting.
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