So here's the answer to your messages, raw and uncut, respect to Mr. John Leaders "Powder river basin" layout that was an inspiration for this one Enjoy
That's more than COOL, that's ingenious to the extreme, Love it when someone pushes the boundaries so to speak and in N its even more impressive. well done. im working N and planning how I can give a representation of a rural English coal yard and have a conveyor load a lorry to show the transition from rail to road, Iv got a system to move the lorry down the road into the station yard, I think I can get a mobile conveyor to work, just need to get the coal from the wagon into the conveyor. Hope to have the road transit ready show in m next video,,, I hope I have the same success as you,,,, well done once again,,,,
Yeah, I went through a lot of design ideas trying to make this functional. I had to have a way to be able to see how I loaded the loads (hence the giant window) and keep the load off the top of the sides of the car walls (brush) otherwise they would fall off the car walls into the main line and sometimes get logged into switch frogs and derail things, when carrying live loads I found out, it's important that things run smooth otherwise you have a giant mess to clean up (it happened in the prototype phases) so this might not look prototypical to some people, but functionally for the size and for things to work smooth, this is what I came up with, have loaded over a hundred coal drags and thanks to that brush cleaning up the load as it passes, I haven't had a single derailment. Thanks for your comment!!!
haha, thanks, I haven't had a lot of time lately to make some good videos:) I know that some guys will use electronics to time the drop and everything, I really liked the idea of manually doing it, thats kinda how they really do things anyway, so the whole thing is run off of steel fishing line and pulleys, which activate a slide in a funnel inside the tower
I'm assuming you're talking about directly under and around the car?? if so, it falls down through the tracks into a canister below that can be taken off and used to reload the silo. The tracks are suspended in the air inside the silo for that exact reason. I learned that when using live loads like this, keeping the rails\frogs clean as much as possible keeps the vacuum in the closet. I've seen this done electronically, but I wanted to do something that you could practice and get better at manually It definitely takes some hand and eye coordination for sure This was my third try loading an entire train, you can see I made some mistakes!! Got pretty good at it for a while after this video was done should have posted it then, oh well!! thanks for the question:)
