24: Loading oil at the Phillips refinery in Borger, Texas
in November 1942. The boom with rotating pipe joints
is fed from the platform. The workman has crossed to
the tank from the platform at left with a length of lum-
ber. – John Vachon photo, Library of Congress, no.
LC-USW3-011638.
I decided to make a small platform for this purpose. It only
needs four legs, a top, and a ladder or stairway for access. I
first cut the four legs from scale 4" x 4" styrene and braced
them across the ends with scale 1" x 6" styrene, 25. I also
added some brass ladder stock. The piping and the railing are
taken from the McGraw Oil kit. The resulting structure is quite
simple, (26).
The warehouse
For my available space, I designed a building which is 18' x 31' in
size. I decided to model it with Evergreen clapboard siding, their
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