GRANDT LINE OIL DISTRIBUTOR
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WILLIAM PARDIE
It ha been on acknowledged that the tanks in the Grandt line oil distributor kit were superior to other offerings. They had long been 9ff the market. A few years ago Grandt Line had a table at an O Scale convention. I was told that the molds for the tanks had been broken and would not be replaced. Subsequently I obtained a kit on E Bay. I wanted some additional tanks so I continued to monitor the site. A week ago I scored another kit. When it came in I was surprised to find the instructions were labeled SAN JUAN DETAILS (FORMALLY GRANDT LINE. This may mean that the kit is back on the market if anyone is interested. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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Scott H. Haycock
Look at Midwest Oil Dist. on this page:
Is this it?
Scott Haycock
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That is the kit. The photo looks like the same photo Grandt Line used. When I spoke with the San Juan people at the Narrow Gauge Convention in Sacramento, their intention was to return the kit to production. Lets hope this is true.
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Scott H. Haycock
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 10:03 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] GRANDT LINE OIL DISTRIBUTOR
Look at Midwest Oil Dist. on this page:
Is this it? Scott Haycock
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Tony Thompson
Scott Haycock wrote:
Absolutely that is it. Good find, Scott. I wouldn't have said that the tanks were better, particularly, but that all the components are so nicely done. Just needs a warehouse building and you're done. Wish this had come back when I still needed an oil dealer. . . Tony Thompson
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Tony Thompson
I wrote:
Should have added that Grandt made a very nice warehouse, though a separate kit, and I think was INTENDED to go with the "oil dealer" kit. I see that same warehouse listed on the San Juan page. Great stuff. Tony Thompson
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Bill
thanks for the information on this; I’d been searching Ebay for a couple years trying to score the kit. Just ordered one. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.
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Fantastic. I spoke to them at Springfield last year and they said they had no firm plans to reintroduce the kit. It wasn't something they were sure they would bring back, or something along those lines. I am really excited to see it back on their page, as I have been scooping them up on eBay over the last few years whenever they are listed for reasonable prices. This is great news.
-- Ben Sullivan Brookeville, MD
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William Hirt
Wasn't these 2 kits based on the series of articles that Rail Model Journal published circa 1997 about oil distributors? I remember some of the articles had scale plans of oil distributor warehouses. There was also one article where the owners of the oil jobbers talked about the rail traffic into their business. Bill Hirt
On 4/1/2021 11:49 PM, Tony Thompson
wrote:
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Tony Thompson
Bill Hirt wrote:
No, that's a quite different dealer. IIRC the Grandt Lines kit was already available well before that RMJ article. I also have a faint recollection that Grandt did several structures based on prototypes in Quincy, California, including this dealer. Can anyone confirm that? Tony Thompson
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John King
I think it was Campbell Scale Models that did the series of buildings based on Quincy, California. They produced both vertical and horizontal oil tanks.
John King
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Tony Thompson
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2021 2:09 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] GRANDT LINE OIL DISTRIBUTOR
Bill Hirt wrote:
No, that's a quite different dealer. IIRC the Grandt Lines kit was already available well before that RMJ article. I also have a faint recollection that Grandt did several structures based on prototypes in Quincy, California, including this dealer. Can anyone confirm that?
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Andy Carlson
And that fuel terminal survives to at least 2 years ago when I visited the town. Tracks have been gone for quite a while, not going beyond the Sierra Pacific lumber mill which still feeds lumber by rail to the UP in the Feather River Canyon at Quincy Jct.. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
On Friday, April 2, 2021, 11:30:01 AM PDT, John King via groups.io <dstower1949@...> wrote:
I think it was Campbell Scale Models that did the series of buildings based on Quincy, California. They produced both vertical and horizontal oil tanks.
John King
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Gary Ray
Are these the tanks that were the Grant Line previously discussed? Midwest Petroleum Distributors (sanjuandetails.com) Gary Ray Magalia, CA (soon to be Weatherford, TX)
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of WILLIAM PARDIE
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:42 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] GRANDT LINE OIL DISTRIBUTOR
It ha been on acknowledged that the tanks in the Grandt line oil distributor kit were superior to other offerings. They had long been 9ff the market. A few years ago Grandt Line had a table at an O Scale convention. I was told that the molds for the tanks had been broken and would not be replaced.
Subsequently I obtained a kit on E Bay. I wanted some additional tanks so I continued to monitor the site. A week ago I scored another kit. When it came in I was surprised to find the instructions were labeled SAN JUAN DETAILS (FORMALLY GRANDT LINE. This may mean that the kit is back on the market if anyone is interested.
Bill Pardie
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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mike turner
Together, the two kits, Midwest Petroleum Distributors and the Raised Platform Warehouse, capture about 85% of a Texaco distributor in my home town.
-- Mike Turner MP-Z35
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Gary Ray
Here are a couple of pictures of my Shell Oil distributor in Red Bluff, CA,
using 1 1/4" OD PVC pipe. Rivets are from MircoMark. Decals printed on my ALPS. Tanks based on picture I had from Black Butte area but I can't seem to find it in my files right now. Busy packing to move to Weatherford, TX. Gary Ray Magalia, CA -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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WILLIAM PARDIE
Very nice job Gary. If anyone is interested Gerald Glow ismiking up Flying A decals for the tank ends for me. He would probably like to sell more. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Gary Ray <gerber1926@...> Date: 4/2/21 10:50 AM (GMT-10:00) To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] GRANDT LINE OIL DISTRIBUTOR using 1 1/4" OD PVC pipe. Rivets are from MircoMark. Decals printed on my ALPS. Tanks based on picture I had from Black Butte area but I can't seem to find it in my files right now. Busy packing to move to Weatherford, TX. Gary Ray Magalia, CA -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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In a conversation with Dave Grandt, when I was writing a review of the kit for RMC (Jan 2002), he told me the two kits were based on oil jobbers he saw and photographed in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. There was not a specific prototype, but rather a compilation of a number of oil jobbers. Conoco was a major company in that area as well as Texaco. The warehouse with its corrugated roof and siding, along with the open porch platform certainly looks like it is from that region of the country. The kit with the tanks and truck filling stand can be used almost anywhere.
The Quincy CA kits were done by Campbell.
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tony Thompson
Sent: Friday, April 2, 2021 1:09 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] GRANDT LINE OIL DISTRIBUTOR
Bill Hirt wrote:
No, that's a quite different dealer. IIRC the Grandt Lines kit was already available well before that RMJ article. I also have a faint recollection that Grandt did several structures based on prototypes in Quincy, California, including this dealer. Can anyone confirm that?
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I ordered the oil distributor from San Juan back on April 3rd and after two weeks of it not showing shipped I called they. They told me one of the molds were out being repaired and check back in two weeks. I emailed them for an update and no response. I finally asked for a refund - still no response or refund after several days. I finally opened up a complaint through PayPal and San Juan issued a refund June 15. So not such a great experience with San Juan.
-- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.
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gary laakso
Same treatment here, Charlie and their reviewer software traced me 3X to see if the model had been delivered. I will give them another week to respond.
Gary Laakso Northwest of the missing Mike Brock
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Charlie Duckworth
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2021 8:02 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] GRANDT LINE OIL DISTRIBUTOR
I ordered the oil distributor from San Juan back on April 3rd and after two weeks of it not showing shipped I called they. They told me one of the molds were out being repaired and check back in two weeks. I emailed them for an update and no response. I finally asked for a refund - still no response or refund after several days. I finally opened up a complaint through PayPal and San Juan issued a refund June 15. So not such a great experience with San Juan.
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