Oval Transformer with Cooling Fins & Insulators

This load is a model of a transformer installed at an Idaho power substation during 1951.  This transformer is a style which would have been a common design through the 1950s for small-to-medium substations.

This model load represents a new transformer in shipment to its destination substation.  The load comes complete with the transformer, a crate of six insulators, and two crates of cooling fin sections.  The kit also includes eight strands of tie-down wire for the transformer and the crates.  All of the model pieces come fully painted and ready to use.

There is some assembly required for the three crates and contents – instructions for this assembly are included with the load.  Mounting the transformer to a GSC depressed center flatcar is best accomplished using the included wire to anchor the transformer to the car deck.  Mounting the crates is best accomplished using some angle stock to make retaining blocks for the crates. Use the small diameter wire to tie down the crates to the car deck. 

GSC depressed center flatcars are still available in the classonemodelworks.com website shop.

Below is a set of photos of the prototype transformer as installed at the Pomeroy, Idaho substation.  This is a load that is compatible the 1950s as a new load, and may be used in the 70s through the80s as a load of a used transformer being scrapped or serviced.  Use the transformer as a car load, or in your power substation.

Size: 

Transformer  - Height:  2-1/2” - Width:  1-1/8” - Length:  1-7/8”

Large crates (each) - Height:  3/4” - Width:  7/8” - Length:  1-7/8”

Small crate - Height:  5/8” - Width:  1/2” - Length:  13/16”