Walthers Cornerstone
Cornerstone North American Ethanol Series - Kit (Plastic)
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Corn Storage Silos & Elevators 9-1/2 x 5-1/2 x 15-1/2" 24.1 x 14 x 39.4cm
Walthers Part # 933-2975, p. 402 Walthers 2010 HO Scale Reference
HO scale, $69.98, currently in stock at Walthers
Download the Instruction Sheet (2113 K bytes, PDF format)
North American Ethanol -- Modern Industry for Your HO Railroad
Ethanol is big business--especially for railroads. Long trains of identical
tank cars and huge strings of covered hoppers moving grain and ethanol
byproducts have become an important part of the railroad landscape. Since
the late 1980s and early 1990s, ethanol has more than DOUBLED the traffic
hauled by some railroads!
Cornerstone North American Ethanol series kits, Gold Line(TM) freight cars
and PROTO 2000(R) locomotives make it easy to add this rail-dependent
industry to your model railroad.
Ethanol traffic touches almost every corner of the North American rail
network--from the vast cornfields and wheat fields of the midwest to busy
petroleum terminals in large cities. It should touch your post-1980s model
railroad too!
Seven Cornerstone kits make modeling a complete ethanol plant easy. Three
Gold Line freight cars make building your ethanol- and grain-hauling car
fleet fast and fun. And a new release of PROTO 2000 EMD SW9/1200
locomotives are ideal for working the loading facilities and support
trackage at your ethanol plant.
Build a Business or an Entire Layout
With everything you need to add an ethanol plant on your railroad, plus all
the cars and a switcher to serve it, you'll have everything you need to
re-create an entire industry for your railroad.
Plus, Cornerstone Modern Grain Series kits and other Cornerstone structures
complement North American Ethanol kits, making it easy to model everywhere
ethanol goes--from field to fuel tank!
See the entire North American Ethanol series here.
* Concrete Double Silo
* Grain Elevator Leg & Conveyor
* Use with North American Ethanol & Modern Grain Series Kits
* Perfect for Post-1970s Layouts
Corn is the main source of the starch that's converted into ethanol, and
production facilities consume many carloads per day. Many ethanol plants
keep about a 10-day corn supply on hand, all of which is stored in on-site
concrete silos. A conveyor leg moves the corn from the unloading shed to
the silos and a smaller conveyor sends it from storage to the processing
center.
On your layout, the Corn Storage Silos & Elevators kit brings a landmark to
your North American Ethanol complex. All plants need corn storage silos,
and large plants may need several. The kit includes the large double silo,
rooftop handrails, the inbound elevator leg and the small elevator and
conveyor bridge that moves corn to the processing center.
While designed as a vital addition to an ethanol plant, with the addition
of your own hopper car loading chutes (available separately), the tall
concrete silos and elevators in this kit can also be used as a stand-alone
trackside grain elevator or as a modern addition to a larger grain handling
facility.
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