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The grey bit of plastic under the (current) tracks in your picture may have a pit modelled. If so, the hopper simply dumps the coal in the pit, and the bucket hoists the coal into the tower. If not, it is not unreasonable to think that it was done by hand. A lot of work we think should be done by machine was in fact done by hand in the pass. Just think - most of the original construction on North America's railroads was done by guys with shovels and horses with little dump carts. And a handfired coal loco might go through 10 tons of coal in a shift - all shovelled by hand...! Andrew
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