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

Cooling Tower Facility
Walthers Part # 933-2979, 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.

 

 
* Cooling Tower * Water Storage Tank * Maintenance Shed * Ideal for Use at Other Industries
 
Cool water is the key to temperature regulation during ethanol production and it's needed in enormous quantities. Hot water from other parts of the process is circulated into the cooling tower where it's cooled for reuse. Rooftop fans draw cool air inside the tower where it passes over falling water. The cooling tower maximizes the water's exposure to air for cooling through evaporation. Water lost through evaporation is replenished during the process.
 
The Cooling Tower kit includes a cooling tower with four simulated rooftop circulation fans, a water storage tank and a maintenance/pump/monitoring shed. While this kit is patterned after facility at an ethanol processing plant, similar cooling towers are used at power plants, steel mills, refineries, modern food processors and chemical processing plants.
 
Cooling Tower: 11-15/16 x 3-1/16 x 3-1/2" 30.3 x 7.8 x 8.9cm Tank: 4-5/16" Diameter x 4-1/2" 11cm Diameter x 11.4cm Shed: 5-1/2 x 3-15/16 x 2-1/2" 14 x 10 x 6.4cm
 
Please Note: This kit is molded in ABS plastic, which requires compatible cement for assembly.