Dimensions: 3-3/4 x 9" (9.5 x 22.8cm)

The below files are kit documents for the our Timber Oil Derrick, Kit #354. They are in PDF and jpg format and can be downloaded and printed. Please note that files with drawings will have a inch scale on each page so you can determine if your printer has changed the scale from the original scale of the document. Note: if the scale (size) of your printed drawing HAS changed, DO NOT use it as a cutting template!

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Kit Documents:

1. Master List
2. Large Photo
3. Instructions
4. Drawing Templates

Although the existence of petroleum had been known for several thousand years, and seepage had been used for heating, cooking, lubrication, cementing bricks, making roads and caulking boats, it was not until 1859 that the world's first producing oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania.

By 1871 the infant industry had grown sufficiently to require the use of metal tank cars for railroad transportation. Since then, the Petroleum Industry has continued to grow until today it is one of the major users of railway facilities.

Oil derricks offer a fascinating spider web of interesting construction, and become a logical and important part of the railroad scene. However, most modern oil derricks are too big to be fitted into very many HO layouts. For this reason we have chosen a prototype from the early California oil fields, one that is preserved in the Pioneer Village of the Kern County Museum at Bakersfield, California.

This "1905 Cable Tool Drilling Rig" is said to be the oldest known operative rig of its type in the United States. The HO model is faithfully scaled from the original. We have included a number of photos of this drilling rig.