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!
The Tank, Pipes, Loading & Unloading Racks kit is an essential part of the North American Ethanol complex-it's where ethanol is loaded into tank cars and trucks. Inbound gasoline for denaturing ethanol is unloaded from either tank cars or trucks at the racks. The kit includes a large storage tank complete with a caged ladder, retention berm and berm walkovers, two pump houses (one for each loading rack), a tank car loading rack with stairway, a truck loading rack and plenty of piping with valves and support tees. If you wish to add additional piping, the piping in this kit is compatible with the Cornerstone Piping Kit #933-3105, sold separately.
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!
The Tank, Pipes, Loading & Unloading Racks kit is an essential part of the North American Ethanol complex-it's where ethanol is loaded into tank cars and trucks. Inbound gasoline for denaturing ethanol is unloaded from either tank cars or trucks at the racks. The kit includes a large storage tank complete with a caged ladder, retention berm and berm walkovers, two pump houses (one for each loading rack), a tank car loading rack with stairway, a truck loading rack and plenty of piping with valves and support tees. If you wish to add additional piping, the piping in this kit is compatible with the Cornerstone Piping Kit #933-3105, sold separately.
See the entire North American Ethanol series