Anyone here model a quarry?
If so, do you know of any good online resources? Any pointers would be welcome as well.
I've found this: http://quarriesandbeyond.org/
I'd like to include a marble dimension stone & crushed rock quarry in my pike design.
Martin
I've seen a few in MR, but they kind of gloss over them. I've never seen a "how to" article on the industry. It isn't even mentioned in the "Industries You Can Model" series of books.
I don't have the room for a giant hole in the ground type but New England is littered with the smaller cliffside types................ From what I can tell they seem simple enough but I want to get it right. Lots of block and tackle, booms, outdoor finishing facilities,etc.........
I was inspired by the MR article and wanted a Malchite quarry. I used foam, low temp hot glue and artist acrilics. I had a great time. It was not hard, but took a long time. Here are a couple of pics. There are a couple more in my photobucket, accessed in my sig. I found the site you referenced and a few more to get the shapes and the colors. The prototype for my scene was the deposit at Bisbee AZ (though that was blasted out to get the copper), the site near St Petersburg Russia in the 17th Century (which provided the slabs for the church) and the Paras mine in Wales which I have visited. It was one of my more enjoyable projects.
Sorry I don't have any photos, but the best quarry I have seen was on the edge of a layout so that it didn't take up much room. There was the steep wall and cranes to haul up the blocks and load them onto the railroad. Finishing sheds are elsewhere. Old, small quarries need not be very large and are usually full of water (cold and deep) often a blue/green.
Good luck,
You can suggest a quarry by a face of benchwork made of much rock casting.
I recall one in particular where I was instructed to keep left steer on a yellow line between TWO quarries. 6 inches too far off will plunge me to death. That was a long time ago and I still see that stupid yellow line LOL.
Another much more easier quarry to model is simply a big haul road bulldozed through a forest edge and mashed flat by the haul trucks coming and going. Just need a rough road, a haul truck and perhaps a rail siding to suggest outbounds or inbound supplies etc. There was a quarry like this near New Market Virginia towards the west, I forget exactly where but along that side of the Shenandoah.
Cheers.
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The above posts have shown fine examples of slab rock or marble mines.
In my area the rock quarries tend to be open pit mines where they quarry granite for building construction and road building. They simply blast the rock face free and load the rip/rap into lager trucks to be taken to the crusher to be turned into gravel of different grades and sizes.
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This is a limited view of my HO gravel pit, with spur track to the gravel crusher, that has a long covered conveyor leading down into the pit.
Franklin Industrial Minerals in Crab Orchard, TN, a local gravel quarry(1st picture care of the companies site, 2nd care of Wikipedia) :
And on the local club layout:
It's also worth mentioning that many large quarries with rail access have their own equipment as well, at least that I've noticed... I'm planning on re-modelling the Crab Orchard Quarry on the club layout to be a bit closer to prototype. On that note, scale plays a big part..here's a few photos of some of the local Quarry's equipment near the plant, care of RailPictures.net , linked to save post size hope that's ok: http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?offset=30&where=||Franklin+Industrial+Minerals||||||1|||||||||||Franklin+Industrial+Minerals||||||||||||||||||
Here are some pictures of qurries from "Live Search Maps"
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qghgnp7gjdwp&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=21922685&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
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This link shows two of the three rock quarries local to me that I have hauled rock from. They are about 1.5 miles from each other.
once open switch to the aerial view
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Some nice pictures and such in this thread but is anyone familiar with quarry operations and equipment?
The hole in the ground part I got down, it's what equipment was used and how to set it up properly I need to learn more about.........
If you can copy paste the link I had put up previously at the bottom of my post, it shows some of the quarries rail equipment, as well as good shot of said equipment in and around the facilities, that should give you a decent starting point.. The motive power they use to my knowledge is:
GE 100-ton switcher for plant switching
3 GE B23-7s 2 formerly of NS(high hood), and one from CSX(low hood) to transport the full trains to another area to be switched over to NS for distribution.
This the kind of information you're needing? :)