The St. Francis Consolidated Railroad of the Colorado Rockies...pictures of the layout: historical, currently finished, and under construction

The following four pictures are some of the inspiration for the oiling storage and filling station in the mountain yard. The first
is an extremely fine brass model and if you have any idea to whom it belongs or who built it, please call or email so this can get the
credit so richly deserved. The other three pictures are of a build by Chuck Doan, whose skill is basically legendary.
No one is suggesting that this build measures up to the incredible standards of these two stations, but only that it is an
attempt to add a nice structure to the yard based on their inspiration.

A pipe lighter was used on the tank itself and with a little experimenting it's easy to get the hang of how to heat the plastic,
at what distance to hold the flame, how long to let it cool down before denting. Then use whatever sharp, hard object is handy
for the dents (the back of a small C-clamp was used for that dent on the end). The heat sometimes does funny things to the
surface, so a light sanding is needed to remove the little bumps.
The theory for the tank is that no railroad is about to use a perfectly good tank for storage, so one that got in a couple of
accidents might not be good enough for federal railroad inspectors but would pass county inspection for re-use in
a mountain yard!