Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Sanding Towers & Drying House Kit - 933-3182

Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Sanding Towers & Drying House Kit - 933-3182 adds a complete locomotive sanding facility to an HO scale engine terminal or railroad maintenance area. Sanding facilities prepared and stored dry sand used by locomotives to improve wheel traction, making them an important part of both steam- and diesel-era servicing operations. This kit includes early- and late-style sanding towers, a brick drying house, an open wooden storage bin, and connecting piping. Browse the complete Walthers Cornerstone model railroad buildings and structures collection for additional layout-building options.

Railroads developed sanding facilities to meet local operating requirements, so their designs varied from one terminal to another. Many remained in service after steam locomotives were retired because diesel locomotives also required sand. The two tower styles included with this Walthers Cornerstone kit allow the facility to represent an earlier steam-era installation, a later diesel-era operation, or a terminal that was upgraded over time.

Build an HO Scale Locomotive Sanding Facility

The Walthers Cornerstone Sanding Towers & Drying House kit includes multiple structures and details for creating a complete servicing scene:

• Early-style sanding tower for steam-era facilities
• Larger late-style tower for more modern engine terminals
• Distinctive brick sand-drying house
• Detailed open wooden sand-storage bin
• Realistic connecting piping
• Suitable for steam- and diesel-era layouts
• Can be arranged to suit local engine-terminal conditions
• Decal signs included
• Easy-to-build plastic structure kit
• Early tower measures 1-7/8 x 7/8 x 2-7/8" (4.8 x 2.2 x 7.3cm)
• Late tower measures 3-1/2 x 3/4 x 4-7/32" (8.9 x 1.9 x 10.7cm)
• Drying house measures 1-11/16 x 1-13/16" (4.3 x 4.6cm)
• Storage bin measures 1-11/16 x 3-1/2" (4.3 x 8.9cm)

The separate components provide flexibility when planning the servicing area. A tower can be positioned beside an engine-service track while the drying house and storage bin occupy nearby railroad property. The alternate tower can be reserved for another facility or incorporated into a larger terminal where different generations of equipment remain in use.

Expand Your Walthers Cornerstone Engine Terminal

The Sanding Towers & Drying House fits naturally with Walthers Cornerstone railroad structures when developing a locomotive terminal, roundhouse area, or maintenance facility. It can also complement buildings from the Walthers Cornerstone trackside structures collection when expanding railroad property beside the main line or yard.

Browse HO Scale Walthers Cornerstone buildings for additional structures suited to the surrounding layout. Smaller components for detailing service tracks, work areas, and railroad facilities can be found among Walthers Cornerstone accessories and details.

For finishing and customizing the sanding facility, browse Fusion Scale Hobbies' model railroad and hobby paint for painting and weathering projects, along with model building glue and adhesives for kit assembly and other modeling projects.