Another business has opened up along the C&A Railway. It’s the Soggy Bottom Coal Company (named for the fact that there are many springs in the area). The tipple was built to serve up big chucks of anthracite coal.
The tipple itself is pretty simple (and cheap) construction from scrap PT pine and cedar. The body of the main building is 1"x6" PT pine and the conveyor shaft is from a ripped down piece of 4"x4". They are both covered with 1/2" wide cedar slats glued on with TiteBond III. The “windows” are pieces of hardware cloth over gloss black paint.
The roof is corrugated aluminum a la Yogi Wallace – http://users.stratuswave.net/~wd8jik/crimp/crimp.html
It was glued on with DAP Clear Flexible Sealant (kind of a cross between silicone and GOOP with no stringiness). The sub roof for the main building is coroplast. The aluminum was annealed on the flame heat shield of a propane grill (it will eventually turn a dull gray, I hear). It was weathered a bit with a red (oxide) primer spray paint. The sub structure is all ripped down cedar. I glued on bits of flagstone to the bottom of the “legs” to keep them off the ground as cedar will eventually rot with ground contact. The supports for the conveyer are PT pine since they are in the ground. The cedar will be left to weather naturally to a gray.
and in its new home -
-Brian
