Pipe covering company base & rail car

The structure previously posted will sit on this base.  I have installed a two foot gauge industrial track set in brick to allow the hand pushed pipe car to be moved into the building and out.  At the left of the building the track is in the open under a gantry crane, which is used to move the pipes (or boilers) to and from railcars on the track which will be in the foreground.  The rail is made from 2x2 inch scale styrene strip and the brick surround is pressed paper brick from an old SS Ltd kit.  The rail car was constructed from styrene strip and mounted on two wheel sets of unknown origin.

While the railcar has no specific prototype, it is conceptually similar to the railcars used at the Virginia brick company I visited earlier this year.  Many small industries used this means of moving product in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and fits my 1939 era as an older facility.

I have scanned a 1911 ad for industrial push cars.  The ones shown have flat tops due to the types of loads they were intended to carry.