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Re: Octan Fuel Storage Tanks - Fueling Train Car Question
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:50:31 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Scott Sanburn writes:
> TO All the Train Guru's out there,
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> I am building two Octan Fuel Storage tanks for the MLTC GATS display in
> Grand Rapids, Michigan and I have a question. How do the tanker cars get
> fuel from those round tanks? Is there a special mechanism or is it done some
> other way?
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> I have been looking around for awhile now, but have not seen anything yet.
> ANy help is appreciated!
See:
http://www.magma.ca/~morcomp/Images/1976-aer-1-16.jpg
Those structures rail side are loading racks. Pipes run from the base of
the tanks to the racks. The articulated boom pipes lower to the tank cars.
The loading rack can either be pump fed or gravity fed depending on the
relative vertical postion of the storage tanks.
-Rob.
DoucetteNet LEGO® on Brickbay
http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?u=robatworldnet
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