Getting Real Column - 6
With these elements in mind – tanks of various sizes and kinds,
a warehouse, an unloading spot with pump house, a truck
loading platform, and piping between elements if desired –
let’s turn to modeling. It should be evident even from the small
sample of prototype photos included here that arrangements
of the elements in bulk oil plants are quite variable, and thus
can be realistically modeled in a variety of ways. My focus here
is a particular bulk oil plant which I freelanced using prototype
information, but I will show also a couple of other models to
indicate the range of possibilities in this kind of modeling. And
9: This oil dealer, in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, was
photographed in May 1985. The stairway leads to a mini-
mal platform, and loading pipes come directly from tanks.
In the background can be seen the top walkway on a
four-tank set of vertical tanks. – Author photo.
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MRH-Mar 2013
