Post by AutobusPrime on Nov 30, 2015 23:52:04 GMT -5
Finished it, though as you can see, I left room to claim it is still under construction.
This is a feed-fuel-lumber dealer reworked from a Tyco ore dump set, plus a Life-Like general store, some basswood from a Midwest bagged assortment, two junkbox MDC tanks, and a few other bits. I built the contactor into a loading platform, and the bin into a coal shed, leaving the back open so the bin could be lifted out.
The platform looks barren. I need to build more details.
The coal operation is a real Rube Goldberg, honestly. Loading the coal into a shed, then lifting it into a tipple, then letting some spill over into a big round bin to be loaded via portable conveyor? I suppose we could assume the shed handles coke for a few small iron foundries in Johnson Furnace, while the tipple is good old Reading anthracite, presumably dumped into an under-track pit and conveyed to the tipple. Yes, let's say that, before people wander too far and notice the Life-Like operating tipple loading bituminous coal across the creek. You can have any kind of carbon you want in Johnson Furnace...
And never even mind the insanity of a railroad hauling coal to market in a Difco dump car!
But it does work. The coal car dumps well, using my favorite animated-car coal, ABS plastic beads. It also flings a few of them through the open back of the coal shed, and up on to the freight platform, and I think it blends together into something reasonably believable. It was also quite cheap to build.
An amusing surprise feature: Backing the yellow boxcar in pushes its door open! The lower door 'claws' bump against the platform edges and the friction drags them open. Almost as if Tyco intended that to happen...and who knows, maybe they did? You never know, with Tyco.
The wheel-stops are made from an N scale steel trestle bent (the train-set over and under kind).
Now I think I want to add Eugene Le Doux's operating freight crane to the platform, since it is quite high for a motor truck or wagon...
This is a feed-fuel-lumber dealer reworked from a Tyco ore dump set, plus a Life-Like general store, some basswood from a Midwest bagged assortment, two junkbox MDC tanks, and a few other bits. I built the contactor into a loading platform, and the bin into a coal shed, leaving the back open so the bin could be lifted out.
The platform looks barren. I need to build more details.
The coal operation is a real Rube Goldberg, honestly. Loading the coal into a shed, then lifting it into a tipple, then letting some spill over into a big round bin to be loaded via portable conveyor? I suppose we could assume the shed handles coke for a few small iron foundries in Johnson Furnace, while the tipple is good old Reading anthracite, presumably dumped into an under-track pit and conveyed to the tipple. Yes, let's say that, before people wander too far and notice the Life-Like operating tipple loading bituminous coal across the creek. You can have any kind of carbon you want in Johnson Furnace...
And never even mind the insanity of a railroad hauling coal to market in a Difco dump car!
But it does work. The coal car dumps well, using my favorite animated-car coal, ABS plastic beads. It also flings a few of them through the open back of the coal shed, and up on to the freight platform, and I think it blends together into something reasonably believable. It was also quite cheap to build.
An amusing surprise feature: Backing the yellow boxcar in pushes its door open! The lower door 'claws' bump against the platform edges and the friction drags them open. Almost as if Tyco intended that to happen...and who knows, maybe they did? You never know, with Tyco.
The wheel-stops are made from an N scale steel trestle bent (the train-set over and under kind).
Now I think I want to add Eugene Le Doux's operating freight crane to the platform, since it is quite high for a motor truck or wagon...
