Hopefully I can post some pictures of my progress in a few days. One of the things I an struggling with is fuel unloading to the fueling facility to fill the storage tank. Are folks unloading from rail cars or from trucks ? This will determine how I lay it out. I am locating this with the sanding facility so I am planning to have a parking lot where trucks would drop the sand off. Of course there is the otehr option of bringing it all in by rail and using a front loader or similar to unload the sand into the holding area and unloading the rail tanker cars. If so, then I would have a much smaller parking lot, just enough to cover the employees and not large enough to have an unloading facility.
I read through the Walthers Diesel Fueling facility information again and it looks like the unloading stand is designed for rail cars and not trucks, since it unloads from the top and most tanker trucks unload from the bottom. This shouldn’t be an issue. I think I’ll still plan on both rail and/or truck delivery for sand. I’ll plan on sand unloading to be done by a front loader or some other type of bucket crane. The sanding facility doesn’t really look like it is designed for drop unloading from a hopper car. So my last thought now is the source of the diesel fuel to load the tank cars. I looked through Walthers and didn’t find a lot. I found the Cambria Fuel Depot by ConCor. It is out of stock and loks like it is designed to load trucks, not rail cars. I did find the Walthers Oil Loading Platform, it too is out of stock and I could match it up with a couple of storage tanks. Does anyone have a similar setup they could post a picture ? Maybe a refinery operation with a rail tank car loading facility ?
So after some more digging, I found the Walthers Gold Line Difco dump cars for Norfolk Southern. These look like they will be great for hauling sand and dumping. Then a front loader can scoop the sand into the holding area. And Walthers has them on sale $15 off for a 3 pack. I am still looking at the fuel loading onto tank cars.
Ok, so while I continue this conversation with myself, I am leaning towards one of the Walthers Cornerstone 500,000 gal storage tanks 933-3168 6" x 6" and then add the Cornerstone Oil Loading rack 933-3104. The Oil Loading Rack is out of stock for a couple of weeks. I have a siding, only single track, that thsi would fit on. Not sure I could squeeze two tanks in the space. It is also on the other side of the layout so I can switch the tank cars between the loading rack and then the diesel unloading facility. If anyone has any pictures of these kits, I’d be most appreciative. My LHS has two of the tanks on the shelf.