North American Ethanol -- Modern Industry for Your HO Railroad
Ethanol is big business--especially for railroads. Long trains of identicaltank cars and huge strings of covered hoppers moving grain and ethanolbyproducts have become an important part of the railroad landscape. Sincethe late 1980s and early 1990s, ethanol has more than DOUBLED the traffichauled by some railroads!
Cornerstone North American Ethanol series kits, Gold Line(TM) freight carsand PROTO 2000(R) locomotives make it easy to add this rail-dependentindustry to your model railroad.
Ethanol traffic touches almost every corner of the North American railnetwork--from the vast cornfields and wheat fields of the midwest to busypetroleum terminals in large cities. It should touch your post-1980s modelrailroad too!
Seven Cornerstone kits make modeling a complete ethanol plant easy. ThreeGold Line freight cars make building your ethanol- and grain-hauling carfleet fast and fun. And a new release of PROTO 2000 EMD SW9/1200locomotives are ideal for working the loading facilities and supporttrackage at your ethanol plant.
Build a Business or an Entire Layout
With everything you need to add an ethanol plant on your railroad, plus allthe cars and a switcher to serve it, you'll have everything you need tore-create an entire industry for your railroad.
Plus, Cornerstone Modern Grain Series kits and other Cornerstone structurescomplement North American Ethanol kits, making it easy to model everywhereethanol goes--from field to fuel tank!Corn is the main source of the starch that's converted into ethanol, andthe Corn Unloading & Storage Sheds are its first and last stop inproduction at the North American Ethanol complex. The kit includes anunloading shed with two bays, one for trucks and one for covered hoppers,as well as a corrugated storage shed and operator's booth for inside theunloading bay. The storage building is used to store dried distillersgrains (DDG), the protein-rich co-product of the process used in animalfeed, until it's loaded into covered hoppers for movement to feedprocessors. The corrugated structures are also similar to those found atmodern milling, waste paper recycling and other facilities, so they'll lookright at home at other industries.
Dimensions: 9-1/2 x 5-1/2 x 15-1/2" 24.1 x 14 x 39.4cm
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