08-18-2010, 09:09 AM
P5se: That's some neat information. I didn't know either of those things, so that's pretty cool. I would like to please respectfully ask you to post any more information in the build thread for the enginehouse here: http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic...=37&t=3207
Tomustang: That's pretty close, but not quite it. What it is is a hopper car, put up on wooden or steel truss supports and loaded via a chute(I can make it from U-channel) that would pour coal into it from the mine. The primary difference between using the hopper as a tipple and loading trucks and cars directly from the mine is the height. Trucks are shorter than cars, so some coal was likely to hit the deck and not go in the truck, thus wasting that coal during the loading process.
Granted, it would be cleaned up, but it would need to be separated from other stuff before the coal "washing" process could even begin.
Tomustang: That's pretty close, but not quite it. What it is is a hopper car, put up on wooden or steel truss supports and loaded via a chute(I can make it from U-channel) that would pour coal into it from the mine. The primary difference between using the hopper as a tipple and loading trucks and cars directly from the mine is the height. Trucks are shorter than cars, so some coal was likely to hit the deck and not go in the truck, thus wasting that coal during the loading process.
Granted, it would be cleaned up, but it would need to be separated from other stuff before the coal "washing" process could even begin.