15 tons a minute is impressive. You don't say how you feed the conveyor but I'm sure that's be interesting too. Well done anyway with your load rate. I'm sure it could be increased but at what cost.
Can someone explain the filling pattern? Begin filling in the middle of the gondola, move toward the loaded gondolas, over file to center and finally fill to the empty end of the gondola. Repeat for next empty gondola. Would love to be on site to watch this operation! RL
My guess is the centre ish of the car is always below the conveyor. It is a lot harder to stop them with the end right below the conveyor and would waste time moving the conveyor if it was going to drop ore between the cars. How they do it they conveyor can start to fill them right away when they stop so saving time loading
The conveyor overlap is only so much, about half an ore car length so this method fills without having to keep moving the entire train more than that once per
I enjoyed the video - so, thanks for that. However the system could be a little more efficient. The conveyer is on a trolley controlled by the guy in the window - the conveyer can go the whole length of the car. By doing it the way they are in this video causes the engine to start and stop twice per car. Starts and stops are knuckle busters. Let the conveyer run the length of the car. Just saying - probably a good reason they do it this way but I don't see it.
