Progress on the Diesel fuel distributor

There is actually a fuel transfer facility in Battle Mountain and I am including a similar facility on my layout.  The purpose of my facility is to distribute Diesel fuel to the many mining operations in the area that maintain their own fuel pumps for their mining equipment.

I already had a good start on this industry by using parts left over from past layouts and posted about this just about a year ago in the post Reuniting a Walthers Interstate Fuel & Oil kit.  As the site of this facility was near the edge of the Battle Mountain section I decided to wait until the Harney section was installed to finish it.

The Faller silo kit I used on the Diamond Plastics complex had a tool for bending the ladder safety cages that same with that kit.  I found that this tool works just as well in shaping the safety cages from Gold Metal Models.

Here are the storage tanks with the ladders installed.  The concrete base shown here is removable so all the work can be done at the bench then placed back on the layout.

Here is the same scene after a few more details were added to the tanks and they were painted.  The truck loading platform is from the Walthers Interstate Oil kit and the pump is from the old Micro Engineering gas station kit.  Still a bit more to do here and some weathering.




Next I will need to work on how the Diesel fuel is removed from the tank cars, that will be in the next post.