Hello everybody,
was browsing on the internet and ran across this site:
http://members.trainorders.com/pmack/dumper.htm
This is a great piece of work to get a rotary dumper to work in a reliable manner. Love the ingenuity.
Frank
"If you need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
Saw that page last year but didn't know it had been updated -- thanks for the tip.
What's really impressive are the rotary couplers!
Craig
DMW
FYI...I can't remember what year ('04, or '05), but N-Scale Magazine ran a how to on scratchbuilding a rotary dumper...it was really detailed, and a good multi-part read.
Bob Berger, C.O.O. N-ovation & Northwestern R.R. My patio layout....SEE IT HERE
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I seen an awsome rotary dumper at the train show in MA
I think it was S-Scale/S-Gauge and I got them to fire it up
worked great, he sead it was cable driven and had a fake piston
the guy's told me it was completly scratch built
what a nice detail, only other thing that realy looked good was the awsome bridge on the same layout.
K-
Great rig, and it works too, BUT-- the wiring, it looks like the wiring harness behind the dash of a Super Constellation, my goodness, does it realy take all those gizmos to make it run, well, back to electronics school for another 2 years.
that is cool
Budliner
do you have any more 1:1 photos like that?
Budliner wrote:that is cool
Is it REAL? or Just 1:29 scale?
Long live Outdoor Model Railroading.
corksean12 wrote:what are these used to dump? coal?
Mostly they're used to dump coal at places like steel mills and power plants although anything that can be dumped out of a hopper can be dumped with them such as wood chips for making paper and particle board or stones for ballast.
da_kraut wrote: Hello everybody, was browsing on the internet and ran across this site:http://members.trainorders.com/pmack/dumper.htmFrank
hey marty, I got it from franks link
it's buried in there, I'll grab a few more
Kentium
Coal falls to the hopper below.
The car indexer pulls the entire train forward to position each railcar onto the rotary dumper.
Inside the control room. Video monitors are connected to cameras outside the building
This was a scratch built rotary dumper in N scale. Walthers didn't make it available in N. It doesn't work, so I posed it dumping a load of wood chips. The load is actually saw dust glued to a piece of mylar. It gives a good representation of the dumping operation.