06-15-2021, 01:24 AM
I think that your ash pit may have a problem with that grade, as a car parked there to be loaded is likely to roll away. If you could make the loading/unloading area level, (either at ground level or elevated) it would probably work just fine.
I made a fairly long grade to the dump pit at the Tichy coaling facility in Mount Forest...
but it levels out at the dump shed, and then continues on-level, where the ashpit hoist will eventually be built
As for the sandhouse, many coaling towers had the sandhouse as part of the same installation, and I'm surprised that it's not included with the Walthers kit. The Tichy coaling tower has three supply pipes for locomotive sand, and I could easily add a couple more.
I used Walthers small concrete coaling tower at Lowbanks, as there's not much room available in that area. It has only a single coal chute under the tower...
...and the track to the dump shed is steep, but levels out inside the dump shed and then continues a little further where I've added a small scratchbuilt sandhouse alongside that track. There is no cinder dump, though...simply no room.
Here's the view from that side...
The sand is dried in the concrete shed next to the turntable pit, and is then sent, using air pressure, to the black tank affixed to the coaling tower. Here's a view from the other side...
...and an over-all view of the crowded area...
Like you, I have the old Revell sandhouse, but not really any good place to use it. I did use the tower for the fuel tank, but built a smaller tank, as the only diesel officially operating is "The BEE"...
After digging up the pictures (above) from photobucket, I've decided that the Lowbanks ash dump is located near the back end of the shop's crane runway...the portion that's theoretically in the aisleway.
Wayne
I made a fairly long grade to the dump pit at the Tichy coaling facility in Mount Forest...
but it levels out at the dump shed, and then continues on-level, where the ashpit hoist will eventually be built
As for the sandhouse, many coaling towers had the sandhouse as part of the same installation, and I'm surprised that it's not included with the Walthers kit. The Tichy coaling tower has three supply pipes for locomotive sand, and I could easily add a couple more.
I used Walthers small concrete coaling tower at Lowbanks, as there's not much room available in that area. It has only a single coal chute under the tower...
...and the track to the dump shed is steep, but levels out inside the dump shed and then continues a little further where I've added a small scratchbuilt sandhouse alongside that track. There is no cinder dump, though...simply no room.
Here's the view from that side...
The sand is dried in the concrete shed next to the turntable pit, and is then sent, using air pressure, to the black tank affixed to the coaling tower. Here's a view from the other side...
...and an over-all view of the crowded area...
Like you, I have the old Revell sandhouse, but not really any good place to use it. I did use the tower for the fuel tank, but built a smaller tank, as the only diesel officially operating is "The BEE"...
After digging up the pictures (above) from photobucket, I've decided that the Lowbanks ash dump is located near the back end of the shop's crane runway...the portion that's theoretically in the aisleway.
Wayne