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Grab that hopper and turn it upside-down! Rotary Dumper???
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I grew up beside Ohio Power's Philo Plant, located on the old Ohio & Little Kanawha Branch of the B & O. I used to watch a piece of equipment that I think was called a rotary dumper. It would grab a hopper car of coal and turn it upside-down. It was very quick and the car would then roll down a slope to join its empty brethren. The coal would fall through a grate onto a conveyor belt which carried it into the plant. In winter weather, though, the coal would freeze and men would have to break up the frozen chunks with long spud bars, a dreaded and dangerous job. I would like to scratch-build a working model of one<font color="black"></font id="black"> in N scale. My question: Has anyone ever made one of these or seen published the plans for it?
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