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G'Day Jailbreaker! <br />On the north-east part of Toronto was a gravel distributor located on a CNR main line. This distributor received various grades of gravel loaded in ore jimmies on one of two sidings. CN crews would simply pull through the siding, drop off about 20 or so cars, then pull back out onto the main line using the turnout at the other end. Any empties would be picked up from the adjacent track. The loaded jimmies would be pulled through a shelter housing a pit and a car shaker. Crews would use pneumatic wrenches to open the car doors, after which the car would be thoroughly shaken (not stirred ![:p] ) , until empty. The doors would be closed and the car would be pulled out, with this procedure repeated until the whole train had been emptied. A remote-contolled side- rod diesel was used to move cars about. Gravel was transferred by various conveyers from the pit and sorted into piles according to the different grades. The gravel was then loaded into trucks for distribution to construction sites. The whole operation was extremely compact and elegantly simple. Athough ore cars were used in this operation, any sort of mineral hopper could be substituted. As for modelling this distributor, only two or three tracks would be required, a small open shed-like structure for the shaker/pit house, various conveyers for transferring the gravel into assorted piles, and finally numerous dump-trucks and a small yard office structure for the distributor. <br />Hope this is helpful. Cheers mate!
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