The oil pipeline has been assembled, painted and weathered. The image below shows how it will look once installed permanently. For now its placement is temporary. I still need to build the walkway and add the hoses to the unloading ports. The unloading ports can be identified by the yellow valve wheels.The red valve wheel is for a secondary shut-off valve. I made these from Micro Trains N scale brake wheels which can be ordered in packs of 12. A salute to Brian Banna for turning me on to these. Since I've always modeled in HO scale I was having a heck of a time locating the right size valve wheels. I have added 3'x3' concrete pads at location where the pipeline needs a little foundation like the bends around the ground throw pocket and the unloading valves/hose connections. I also added ballast for this section of the siding.
Below I have the walkway bridge over the ground throw below. Once I assemble the walkway with railings, I'll paint all of it primer gray and weather prior to installation. To make the pipeline look like it was made of flanged pipe sections, I used the small plastic washers from Kadee coupler sets. The washer with the small hole was widened with a round file until it would just slip onto the 1/16" brass rod. ACC holds everything in place. Next time I'll borrow a friends resistance soldering tool for assembling the brass that makes the pipeline.
Farther to the left will be the second pipeline for unloading chemical tank cars. I still have to construct the walkway/pipeline risers but don't have the right sized styrene on hand.
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