I once worked for a company that had a maintance contract for a coal car dumping station. This machine turned the entire car upside down to dump the coal into a pit with a series of conveyors to carry it away. Does anyone know of a company making a model of this operation or anything similiar? Thanks for any help you can give.
Like this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AubRM_g1u7I
Or this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KvFvicIyZRQ
Gary
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greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
Walthers made such an HO kit, but I do not think its available any longer
Brian
My Layout Plan
Interesting new Plan Consideration
At our club, in the early days we thought about making an operating coal mine and unloading facility. Then in one of our operating sessions using live coal loads, we had a derailment and dumped 2 cars loads of "coal" on the scenery. It took about a half an hour to get it all cleaned up. We promtly abandoned the idea of using live coal loads.
BTW, look how much more efficient this operation is than the rotary dumper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o7n-8LvKTI
Walthers has this on sale:
https://www.walthers.com/rotary-dumper-superior-paper-kit-9-1-2-x-7-1-4-quot-24-1-x-18-4cm-required-clearance-2-1-2-quot-6-4cm
It's part of a paper mill complex, maybe you can adapt it to coal.
Walthers # 933-3903
Mike.
My You Tube
Just wondering if it is an operating dumper, or one that could be modified to do so??
The Walthers rotary dumper could be used at any industry where they want to dump a gondola. Kaiser Steel Mill used them for coal and for limestone. The Walthers kit does rotate manually and the instructions say that you can add your own motor to make it powered. If you wanted to actually dump something you would have to also build your own operating conveyor belt or figure out another way to remove the dumped material.
I have always been intrigued by this 1897 (!!) film by Thomas Edison of a car dumper in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0br89U8K-U
Dave Nelson
dknelson I have always been intrigued by this 1897 (!!) film by Thomas Edison of a car dumper in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0br89U8K-U Dave Nelson
THIS would be fun to replicate on a model railroad!
Looks more like a piece of amusement park equipment...
I chuckled when I heard the narrator say (at 1:14) "The load is supported at four points near the boogie center"
This might be the dumper that Edison filmed, or one very much like it:
http://www.shorpy.com/node/9811?size=_original#caption
railandsail Just wondering if it is an operating dumper, or one that could be modified to do so??
Lots of information on the Walthers Rotary dumper here:
http://empcccc.sourceforge.net/rotary_dumper-AD.html
Like so many of Walthers motorized kits, I understand they needed some degree of modification to make them function properly.
Good Luck, Ed
gmpullman Lots of information on the Walthers Rotary dumper here: http://empcccc.sourceforge.net/rotary_dumper-AD.html Like so many of Walthers motorized kits, I understand they needed some degree of modification to make them function properly. Good Luck, Ed
WOW that is LOTS of info,...information overload. Wonder how long it took him to put that together
It was alot like the second video. It was cable operated. The main difference was the car was heal in place by 2 arches that went all the way across the car and were also activated by cables. It was a rather old set-up, one of our first jobs was to reinforce all of the structure so it would hold heavier more modern cars.
It looks like the walthers kit would take a lot of work to make it like what I am thinking of, but hey, thats what it's all about. Thanks for all the input.