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Trucks certainly can have a place on your layout. Coal truck dumps at rail sidings were and are common. Not all mines have the convenience of a rail siding served on a regular basis and truck the coal to the rails. While some are small operations where a truck may back onto a platform and dump directly into a hopper, some are enormous oiperations. Here's one in Wyoming that loads 6,000 tons per hour: http://www.r-s.com/projects/B9H708.htm The dumping operation is done within a large building and coal carried by conveyor to the loader. These may not exist in Australia but they do in the US. Wayne
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