Walthers Cornerstone
Cornerstone North American Ethanol Series - Kit (Plastic)

Energy Center
Walthers Part # 933-2978, p. 435 Walthers 2012 HO Scale Reference
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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.

 

 
* Outside Covered DDG Storage Area * Outside Stack * 5 Tanks * DDG Conveyor Piping
 
The Energy Center is where corn solids left over from the ethanol production process are transformed into dried distillers grains (DDG). DDG, a protein-rich coproduct used in animal feed is dried and pelletized. DDG is fed by conveyor to a storage shed until it's loaded into covered hoppers and shipped to animal feed producers.
 
The Energy Center kit includes the main structure with a canopied DDG loading area, stack, DDG conveyor piping and appropriate tanks. While based on a DDG pelletizing plant, this kit also looks at home at a modern brickworks, wallboard plant, recycling facility, modern produce packing plant and at other industries where bulk materials are stored/offloaded by trucks and wheel loaders.
 
Measurements: Main Building: 17-1/4 x 7-7/8 x 4" 43.8 x 20 x 10.2cm, Stack is 10-1/4" 26cm Tall Tanks & Base 10-9/16 x 2-3/8 x 4-1/2" 26.8 x 6 x 11.4cm