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Flagler

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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2012, 08:22:28 AM »
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #16 on: July 29, 2012, 10:38:29 AM »
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Mine is based (as best as I could fit) on the ATSF Winslow AZ fuel facility c. 1972.  It's been changed and relocated several times since it was one of the first large diesel fueling sites back into the 1940's - serving FT's.

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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #17 on: July 29, 2012, 11:59:13 AM »
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The FCN has a very simple / basic layout.    Converted hopper for sand, tower to the rear.  Two pump, diesel fuel rack.   Engine house is a 2-stall structure.   That can accommodate four locomotives.
Turntable was a last minute / run out of options affair.   (meaning I didn't plan for it!  :scared:).  It is unpowered.  But, the far back track works very well as a "programing track" for my DCC operations.



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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2012, 12:24:32 PM »
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2012, 08:11:50 AM »
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A bird's eye view of the engine facility.
The roundhouse from Heljan and built about 1976.
The turntable is Walther's index DC version and water tower also Walthers.

Currently set up to operate track power as DC or DCC since most of my steam engines are DC.
Track is Kato unitrack.  Coal tower is out of range to the left.
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #20 on: July 30, 2012, 11:41:49 AM »
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #21 on: July 30, 2012, 11:42:35 AM »
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Quote from: kalbert on July 30, 2012, 11:41:49 AM
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Nice!  We don't often see these touches on modern railroads - though your cinder fill looks a tad clean to me.
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #22 on: July 30, 2012, 12:49:52 PM »
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Atlantic and East Carolina roundhouse in New Bern, NC.  A&EC was all of 90 some odd miles long.
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #23 on: July 30, 2012, 01:02:39 PM »
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See MC Fujiwara's FreeMoN module build thread in the Engineering reports section. In the more recent entries he builds an engine facility.

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=25996.0
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #24 on: July 30, 2012, 01:17:47 PM »
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Quote from: randgust on July 29, 2012, 10:38:29 AM
Mine is based (as best as I could fit) on the ATSF Winslow AZ fuel facility c. 1972.  It's been changed and relocated several times since it was one of the first large diesel fueling sites back into the 1940's - serving FT's.

Now THAT'S a detail you don't often see... the little piles of sand next to the rails from testing the wheel sanders. Ubiquitous, in every facility I've toured, but rarely modeled. Kudos.
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #25 on: July 30, 2012, 01:54:46 PM »
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Mine looks like it was started in 1998, and never really completed... :facepalm:



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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #26 on: July 30, 2012, 02:12:44 PM »
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #27 on: July 30, 2012, 03:16:53 PM »
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Here is mine-


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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #28 on: July 30, 2012, 04:03:06 PM »
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Quote from: Philip H on July 30, 2012, 11:42:35 AM
Nice!  We don't often see these touches on modern railroads - though your cinder fill looks a tad clean to me.

My inspiration was the old Omaha roundhouse in Mankato, MN. http://binged.it/N7noTJ. Sadly it's completely gone now, there's a water treatment plant for CHS in it's place.
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Re: What does your engine facility look like?
« Reply #29 on: July 30, 2012, 04:05:33 PM »
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Interesting that on the Bird's eye view, not only is the roundhouse still there, but the tracks for other stalls are still there and still have wheels on them.
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