Modelling Heavy Industry: A Guide for Railway Modellers
Railway layouts often depict a branch line in a rural or urban setting, with the majority of locomotive models available representing passenger trains. However, increasingly, ready-to-run models of industrial locomotives are becoming available, providing a unique opportunity to place them into an industrial context. This highly illustrated book provides all the guidance and inspiration needed to begin placing these models in their natural, industrial environment. The book defines heavy industry and considers real-world examples from 'inside the fence', and describes the tools, materials, parts and fittings most suited to the construction of very large structures. It goes on to provide step-by-step descriptions of several build projects including a gas holder, a cooling tower and an open hearth melting shop, and shows how to make the most of resin buildings, kits and scratch-building. It also demonstrates the construction of industrial structure models in a variety of scales and explains the development of an industrial locomotove fleet, specialized rolling stock and road vehicles with which to populate an industry. Suitable for railway modellers of varying abilities and in any scale, and fully illustrated with 281 colour and 26 black & white photographs.
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Modelling Heavy Industry: A Guide for Railway Modellers
Railway layouts often depict a branch line in a rural or urban setting, with the majority of locomotive models available representing passenger trains. However, increasingly, ready-to-run models of industrial locomotives are becoming available, providing a unique opportunity to place them into an industrial context. This highly illustrated book provides all the guidance and inspiration needed to begin placing these models in their natural, industrial environment. The book defines heavy industry and considers real-world examples from 'inside the fence', and describes the tools, materials, parts and fittings most suited to the construction of very large structures. It goes on to provide step-by-step descriptions of several build projects including a gas holder, a cooling tower and an open hearth melting shop, and shows how to make the most of resin buildings, kits and scratch-building. It also demonstrates the construction of industrial structure models in a variety of scales and explains the development of an industrial locomotove fleet, specialized rolling stock and road vehicles with which to populate an industry. Suitable for railway modellers of varying abilities and in any scale, and fully illustrated with 281 colour and 26 black & white photographs.
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Modelling Heavy Industry: A Guide for Railway Modellers

Modelling Heavy Industry: A Guide for Railway Modellers

by Arthur Ormrod
Modelling Heavy Industry: A Guide for Railway Modellers

Modelling Heavy Industry: A Guide for Railway Modellers

by Arthur Ormrod

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Overview

Railway layouts often depict a branch line in a rural or urban setting, with the majority of locomotive models available representing passenger trains. However, increasingly, ready-to-run models of industrial locomotives are becoming available, providing a unique opportunity to place them into an industrial context. This highly illustrated book provides all the guidance and inspiration needed to begin placing these models in their natural, industrial environment. The book defines heavy industry and considers real-world examples from 'inside the fence', and describes the tools, materials, parts and fittings most suited to the construction of very large structures. It goes on to provide step-by-step descriptions of several build projects including a gas holder, a cooling tower and an open hearth melting shop, and shows how to make the most of resin buildings, kits and scratch-building. It also demonstrates the construction of industrial structure models in a variety of scales and explains the development of an industrial locomotove fleet, specialized rolling stock and road vehicles with which to populate an industry. Suitable for railway modellers of varying abilities and in any scale, and fully illustrated with 281 colour and 26 black & white photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785003387
Publisher: Crowood Press, The
Publication date: 09/30/2017
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 96 MB
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About the Author

Arthur Ormrod has had a lifelong interest in railways and railway modelling. He was brought up in west Manchester surrounded by both railway and industrial activity and found the many local industrial railway systems a source of endless fascination. In the early 1970s he worked at two large British Steel Corporation plants, which left him with an abiding interest in the iron and steel industry, both its history and its operations. Not surprisingly he now incorporates the modelling of large industrial structures and industrial systems into his general railway modelling activities.

Table of Contents

Preface 6

Chapter 1 Introduction 7

Chapter 2 The Prototype 14

Chapter 3 Tools and Equipment 24

Chapter 4 Materials and Painting 38

Chapter 5 Common Features and Details 48

Chapter 6 Gas-Holder or Gasometer 66

Chapter 7 Tank Farm 86

Chapter 8 Overhead Travelling Cranes 94

Chapter 9 Small Buildings 110

Chapter 10 Roll Shop 126

Chapter 11 Cooling Towers 134

Chapter 12 Water Towers 146

Chapter 13 Coal-Blending Plant 156

Chapter 14 Open-Hearth Melting Shop 166

Chapter 15 Locomotives, Rolling Stock and Vehicles 178

Chapter 16 Heavy Industry in Small Spaces 184

Chapter 17 Conclusion 187

Resources for Modellers 188

Index 191

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