I have finished my Walther’s double length oil loading platform kit and put the pipes straight down into the ground. What I need are some ideas for the other piping in the area. What I have is a siding that runs paralel to the facia centerline to the track of 3" or about 2" usable for other piping. Also this whole area is in a triangular space created by the mainline so I have room for some oil tanks and have two Campbell ones. I have a Walther’s piping kit, just looking for ideas for a space like this, late 1930’s era.
Rrebell,
You might want to consider putting a couple of Walthers ‘‘Oil Loading’’ platform kits back to back on Your siding for tank cars. I used three when I built My refinery yrs. ago. I also at the time looked at a lot of oil refinery facilities foot prints/pic’s on Google by typing in Oil Refinery Manufacturing facility Images and got all kinds of info and pic’s to view.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3104
Kit need’s a lot of patience in assembling it.
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Thats what I built for the other side of the track, can’t go on the front patch of earth as they are too fragile. Got some valves built, like three for the forground area.
Walthers sells a piping kit and it is on sale, so you could buy a number of the kits to cover a lot of space.
https://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3105
Rich
Oil depots and refineries have lots of pipe trenches, in the 30s a good many of those trenches would have brick retaining walls. Also made of brick were pump and compressor houses, control rooms, labs, offices and many other structures.
BTW, most of the walkways over those trenches were made of wood. Those walkways were a good vantage point from which a leadman could keep an eye on his labor crew “daylighting pipe” The more colorfulof those leadman might ofter up some inspiration by hollering, “look up from that shovel again and you’ll be out the gate!” Lol.
Regards, Peter