Hi at all!

Today I have begun to build my coaling tower. The prototype is (was) in Handley WVa. Because I don't have any drawings I have used fotos found on the i'net to check the proportions. I think it's visible what it will be in the near future. The tower is made of thin plyood with parts of a recycled wardrobe.

By the way, I would be realy glad to get more infos, pics and more about Handley WVa. at the steam era in the1950's.

More to come later...

Greetings Marco

looks great. Hope to see more soon...

Great start, can’t wait to see more .

This site does not contain information on Handley, but the scale drawings of the coaling tower in Thurmond and other C&O facilities in WVa might be helpful: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.wva-usa.com/newsite/www.wvrailroads.com/drawings/">http://www.wva-usa.com/newsite/www.wvra ... /drawings/</a><!-- m -->

cnw1961 Wrote:Great start, can’t wait to see more .

This site does not contain information on Handley, but the scale drawings of the coaling tower in Thurmond and other C&O facilities in WVa might be helpful: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.wva-usa.com/newsite/www.wvrailroads.com/drawings/">http://www.wva-usa.com/newsite/www.wvra ... /drawings/</a><!-- m -->

Thanks at all and also thanks for this link!! Great resource for more... Handley will not be the last to built!

Greetings
Marco

Lookin' good Marco!
Ralph

Hi at all!

On Saturday this week I will put the roof on it. Photos will follow. The coal elevator, which was a open steel contruction will be made of brass. Today I have made a drawing for the elevator, construction beginns next week. Photos will also follow!

Greetings

Marco

Right now, I'm back again!

Today I have blackend the upper part of the tower under the roof top. I have used my daughters water based black school color. After this, I have added the roof, also black painted.
The next step was to built the "dog house" atop the coal elevator. I have used thin plywood (1 Millimeter or 0.039 inch thick). To cut the plywood I have used a simple big scissor.

OK, I have done the simple part, the difficult part to be build is the elevator tower made of brass. And most difficult and time consuming will be the spiral staircase. Each step will be cutted from plane brass sheet and soldered right in place between two brass stripe which will be look like a DNA string.

OK, that's enough for today! Look at the pictures and enjoy!

Greeting Marco

Here are the first 3 pic's!

The next 3 pic's!

And the last pic for today! I put the tower and the completed elevator house on my drawing to show how it looks when the tower would be complete!

Last but not least: any ideas here which material was used for the roof of the tower and for the paneling of the "dog house" and the pediment of the coal tower? Was it a tar roofing or sheet metal roof? Was the pediment covered with wooden planks or sheet metal?

Hope to get any replies!

Greeting
Marco

looking good, wait to see more!

Today, tar roofing has been added using fine sandpaper!

Greetings Marco

Marco, most of the concrete coaling towers with which I'm familiar had concrete roofs, as in the photo below. Tar (not tarpaper) was applied to the roof to waterproof the concrete. (The angle of the light hitting the roof in the photo makes the roof look lighter in colour that it actual is.)


It's difficult to tell from your photo of the prototype, though, if that roof was concrete - it appears that the gable end is sheathed in corrugated metal, which would mean, of course, that the roof couldn't be concrete. The "doghouse" at the top of the spiral staircase looks to be corrugated metal, too.

Wayne