Large Scale Central

Silly mining questions

General Discussion
#21

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/slatecreek/mineyard1.jpg)

See the big brown 6x6 (or maybe 8x8, I forget…) post between the sidings? The ore bin/tipple/loader structure will need to cover the lower part of this. The mine cars will come out of the mine (at the extreme other end of the sidings) and run down a track between the two sidings to a dump pit that feeds the bucket loader/elevator/conveyor that fills the bin. This is both functional for the “operations plan” of the railroad, but also serves to hide one of a few beams that need to be taken out of the forground of any picture taken!

#22

This is the ore chute I built for the layout. There will be a trestle and track at he top for the mine train. Ore can be stored here and dumped into the gondolas when they are backed in under the chute.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/doug_arnold/_forumfiles/Orechutedone.JPG)

#23

Rick Marty said:

Another thought. The locomotive, no matter how powered, didn’t run all through the mine and all the side drifts. The loco was generally just used to pull a string of loads to daylight after the individual loaded cars were loaded and pushed by hand to the collection point.

This is a good thought, and may pose a partial solution to the reversing problem.

#24

I like that, Doug. Mine will have to be solid, top to bottom, as it’s concealing that beam … but that’s the “flavor” I’d like to go for. Now you know what I was going for in the original thread…

#25

I think I’ve finally figured out a way to show this.

http://digital.library.unlv.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2Fsnv&CISOPTR=2471&DMSCALE=17.500875&DMWIDTH=930pxpx&DMHEIGHT=500pxpx&DMX=&DMY=0&DMROTATE=0

I’m going for something like the squarish one on the right (with the long bridge to nowhere running across the top…) unless someone tells me that’s not an ore loader! (It’d be just my luck it was a coal tower or something.) Very simple, closed in, just about the right shape, and adaptable to the conveyor/elevator that I’d need to fill it.

#26

looks and sounds like a winner to me. some scale siding attached directly to the post, some sort of roof built out and the remainder of the post painted black to disappear and voilà it’s done

#27

That would make a good cover up that way.

#28

Matthew (OV) said:

Oh. I know in the real world there’d never be a bucket/elevator system. If I run the track out of the mine high enough to load the hopper by gravity, nobody will ever see anything but the bottom of it as it’d be over 6’ high. So the above described sequence is necessary.

Don;t bet on it…in the N&W Williamson Yard there was an overhead bucket system that brought coal into the coaling station from a mine across the river in Ky, which is under a Walmart now…go figger…

#29

We pull in/push out

(http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/1336/minetrain.jpg)

(http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/8776/mine1.jpg)

#30

How big is the portal you have there?

(Oh… and what kind of switching move resulted in that boxcar ending up on that stub?) :slight_smile:

#31

Matthew (OV) said:

How big is the portal you have there?

(Oh… and what kind of switching move resulted in that boxcar ending up on that stub?) :slight_smile:

The portal is roughly the same size as the one that Bachmann makes (or possibly used to make) that also came with one of their side dump cars, model 92501:

(http://www.euromodeltrains.com/trains/products/Walthers1/160/92501.gif)

I’d measure it for you, but it’s at my layout in Colorado while I’m in California until the summer.

Switching move? The hand of god…me :wink:

Here’s an older photo showing the portal. This is before I converted the train to battery power and before I added the switch track:

(http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1336/minetrain.jpg)

#32

Matt(OV),

Your basement is looking good.

#33

Model rails and mining have a long history together.

You just might enjoy this:

http://www.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/586/41378/october-1940-page-20

http://www.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/587/41424/november-1940-page-14

As a model Railroad/writer/philosopher, Frank Ellison still doesn’t take a backseat to anyone…:wink: