rotary car unloader

[lyctus]

Dough, that was brilliant !

[Dough]

I once saw an insane rotary dump model on the internet. Let me see if I can find the link, but is was pretty cool. I think that the link was even pasted on this forum.

Edit here you go:

http://nomre.railfan.net/hoscale/somerset/

http://www.ida.net/users/tetonsl/railroad/dumper.htm

BTW, way out of my league...[;)]

[mls1621]

Walthers sells a rotary dumper kit in HO scale, to accompany it's paper mill kit. It isn't functional beyond posing it as dumping a load of wood chips.

I have seen one of these modified to work automatically. It was controlled by an old PC in a display along with a power loader. They have a web site where you might be able to get some information about it. www.augustastation.com.

You could use the Walthers kit as a starting point for your dumper, but you may have to modify it for use with coal hoopers.

One important consideration, you'll only be able to dump one car at a time, uncoupling each end first, unless you can create rotary couplers for your hoopers. It would be awesome to see in operation the way it was intended.

I've scratch built a copy of the Walthers kit in N scale for my neighbor's paper mill, but the best we could do was pose it dumping a load of wood chips.

Best of luck on your project.

[Anonymous]

i wonder if it would be even remotely possibe to power the walthers unit without major surgery to have to rebuild the whole thing so that it works? if so that would be really cool to have a roto dump that actually dumps then have so sort of conveyor back to a loadin silo so that the process never ends maybe take the walthers unit as reference and scratch build one of out of styrene and sheet metal? this would be and interesting structure to have if one can pull this off hmmm... this would be a project especially for me in N Scale

Regards

Larry

[nfmisso]

QUOTE: Originally posted by GDRMCo

does walthers make a rotary car unloader?

See: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3145

It is not really functional....in the same league or little worse than thier 90' TT.

I have one, but I am planning on building one from scratch.

See: http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10980

http://nomre.railfan.net/hoscale/somerset/
http://www.ida.net/users/tetonsl/railroad/dumper.htm

Have fun.

[Anonymous]

Yes! I donn't know if it works though.

[GDRMCo]

does walthers make a rotary car unloader?