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An N-Scale Santa Fe branchline through the mountains |
| Project | Oil Refinery | Projects / Home |
| Manufacturer | Custom |
Part 1 - Refinery Starting work on a small town refinery from the 1930's - geared toward predominately heating oil, propane and gasoline. Drew up the layout for the plant, then cut-down and cleaned up several different sizes of pill bottles to represent the different tanks. Marked and cut panels into the tanks.     Next up is to fill-in and smooth the tops, then paint the tanks black. I am also working on the dock and office building. |
Part 2 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Filled, sanded and primed the tanks. Makes it obvious that a 2nd round of filling/sanding is required. Started the Distilling and Cracking Towers, which still need to be filled and sanded. Also started on the office building   After priming, any filling/sanding issues become very obvious   Next up is round 2 of filling, sanding and priming the tanks and towers, complete the dock and office building. |
Part 3 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Finished the office building, did more work on the dock/storage building (but no pics)   Next up complete the dock and storage building. More filling/sanding on the tanks and towers, then a final primer coat |
Part 4 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Finished the loading dock/shed and started work on the coal bins    Next up complete the coal bins. Start the heaters. More filling/sanding on the tanks and towers, then a final primer coat |
Part 5 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Finished the coal bins and the furnaces.   Next up start adding the details to the various storage tanks |
Part 6 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Added the Desalting tank and the source Oil Tanks, a few figures, and started work on the piping.   This view shows a pump unit, a T-section, a valve and then a 90 degree up to the top of the tank.  Next up continue work on piping to/from the source oil tanks - then on to the Distilling & Cracking towers |
Part 7 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Did the piping for the main oil tanks. Sorry about the poor photos, it was hard to get the camera in a good angle without blocking the lighting     Next up the Distilling & Cracking towers |
Part 8 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Started on the Distillation tower  Next up, finish the piping on the Distillation tower & start the Cracking tower |
Part 9 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Added access hatches and more walkways on the Distillation tower  Next up, finish the piping on the Distillation tower & start the Cracking tower |
Part 10 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Finally completed the Distillation tower. The catwalks took forever, mostly because my big, clumsy fingers kept breaking off sections I had already completed.    Then I realized none of the catwalks had any supports, so I went back and added those  Did not notice until I posted this picture that I had knocked over one of the light posts Next up, add the piping to/from the Distillation tower & start the Cracking tower |
Part 11 - Refinery Continued work on a small town refinery. Installed piping to/from Distillation tower.   Next up, start the Cracking tower |
Part 11 - Refinery - Basic Scenery and Walkways Dusted off the Refinery project. I added basic scenery and more grime on the tanks. Then I added some walkways.  |
Part 12 - Refinery - Ladder and a wood walkway to the ladder Added a ladder, walk-overs and another walkway.  Unfortunately, the refinery has to go back on the back-burner again. I can't find the hole-punch needed for the access hatches on the cracking tower. |