Hello,
I have a photo of the ashpit on my (since dismantled) Idaho & Palouse layout on my blog at allaboard09.blogspot.com
When you get to the blog, please go to the June 2009 entry, and the ashpit is in th first photo.
Chuck
Hello I am a little late but here is mine its only for one track .
Hope this helps Frank
Folks, thank you for sharing some beautiful modeling examples! You guys set the bar up pretty high - which of course is a good thing.
I was particularly interested in G. Paine's pictures of the Cornerstone facility as I have the kit. My thought is I could kitbash one kit so as to extend underground to cover two loco tracks. In G.Paine's example, two kits were used - one for the near and one for the far track.
Thank you all again!
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
howmus Why sure! This is a kit I built about 25 years ago. It is still made, but off the top of my head I'm not sure by who. 73
Why sure! This is a kit I built about 25 years ago. It is still made, but off the top of my head I'm not sure by who.
73
http://www.discounttrainsonline.com/Durango-Press-Trackside-Accessories-Ash-Pit/item254-40.html
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
This is the ash pit at Snoggert's Gap on my SOL RR.
http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af269/looseclu/The%20SOL%20RR/AshPit.jpg
Roy Onward into the fog http://s1014.photobucket.com/albums/af269/looseclu/
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
These are 2 Walthers ash conveyors from the servicing area on our Boothbay Railway Village layout. The view is from the ash dumping side; the bucket on the right is being raised to the dumping position. We extended one conveyor base so it will service the further of the 2 tracks in the background. We still need to add scenery to this area.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Here's a real one. For ideas.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
The ash pit is directly in front of loco #126. This has "stone block" walls. The depth of the pit is the depth of the Homasote, and the bottom of the pit is thus at the plywood layer with some sandpaper down there for texture on the "floor". A beam supports one of the rails over the pit, while the other rail (closer to the camera) runs along the very edge of the pit. As you can see, one support track in behind serves the sand facility, the coaling tower, and the ash pit. (It is a compact shelf layout.) Two small elevators and hand shoveling lift the ash onto the support track. The ash itself was collected from the ash pile of the Cass Scenic RR in West Virginia, so it is actual ash from shay locomotives.
Bill
Mobilman:
My ash pit is a single track with an adjacent ash removal track. It's a modified Walthers kit with a Walthers conveyor.
This isn't the best picture of the facility, but it's about the only one I have. John, the "Newbie" doesn't seem to get the point that he's shoveling hot ashes into a wooden gondola.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Hi!
I'm fixin to design an ash facility (HO) that will handle two tracks (plus an ash removal track). I would greatly appreciate seeing what you all have - and hopefully it won't be much trouble for you to post a picture.
Thank you!