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 Posted - November 18 2013 : 11:01:14 AM
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My AOTW:
Some type of mechanical coal loader that was included in a lot that I purchased this weekend. It is coming hopefully sometime this week. Never seen anything like it before.
Sean
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Posted - November 18 2013 : 11:18:26 AM
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quote:My AOTW:
Some type of mechanical coal loader ...
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - November 18 2013 : 11:01:14 AM
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Ah, I love a mystery!  Looking forward to your report. Thomas
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Posted - November 18 2013 : 8:04:16 PM
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| Looks like a conveyor on those tank/snowcat type tracks. Cool coal loader. I've been looking at different ways to depict a coal yard on a small steam era layout (so I wouldn't have to have a big coaling tower). One expert in our neighborhood says that the railroads around here used wheelbarrows to load coal in to tenders. I'd like to see an old-time photo of that. Anyway, I'm still trying to decide whether to use some sort of platform with little people running wheelbarrows, or a jib crane, or a conveyor. They all present some neat modeling scenes. Show us a photo of what you end up doing with it Sean.
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Posted - November 18 2013 : 8:29:52 PM
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My AOTW is some Life-Like street light poles. I think I have 17 cards of these...
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Posted - November 18 2013 : 8:31:15 PM
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My AOTW is some Life-Like street light poles. I think I have 17 cards of these...
Originally posted by walt - November 18 2013 : 8:29:52 PM
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nice Walt Will look for these next Sat & moar! 
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Posted - November 18 2013 : 8:40:46 PM
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| Fairly common light ups Ben.. It's likely you will find some of these...
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Posted - November 18 2013 : 8:44:13 PM
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Light up road signs
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Posted - November 18 2013 : 8:45:42 PM
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quote:
Light up road signs
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â November 18 2013Â :Â 8:44:13 PM
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Yes, Walt But so not this one! Which I WANTS!!! 
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Posted - November 18 2013 : 9:13:44 PM
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| Nice one ! Actually Ben.. This one is on eBay quite often. Life-Like light ups are never far away. Sometimes found in the later blister packs...
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Posted - November 19 2013 : 08:24:25 AM
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sean i would say its this,but writing on side would have told you that ken
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Posted - November 19 2013 : 11:55:18 AM
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quote:sean i would say its this,but writing on side would have told you that ken
Originally posted by catfordken - November 19 2013 : 08:24:25 AM
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That one is pretty close Ken, but if you look close at mine, it seems to be able to pivot at the base and the tracks look like they also may be rubber. I'm wondering if it is an Authenticast model or something.
Sean
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Posted - November 19 2013 : 12:42:03 PM
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| hi Sean,depending how close they are shape wise,was thinking yours could be an older version ken
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Posted - November 19 2013 : 5:57:10 PM
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| is the Marx & the one Mustangs_n_Trains has HO or O scale?
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Posted - November 20 2013 : 02:19:37 AM
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My AOTW is a brown box TYCO piggyback flat car set in Santa Fe. Box a bit rough but set looks complete and unused.
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Posted - November 20 2013 : 06:24:07 AM
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skimpy - I saw that same piggyback set at the train show for $6. Should have snatched it right up because when I came back the thing was gone! Same color tractor and everything.
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Posted - November 20 2013 : 07:55:14 AM
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quote:Looks like a conveyor on those tank/snowcat type tracks. Cool coal loader. I've been looking at different ways to depict a coal yard on a small steam era layout (so I wouldn't have to have a big coaling tower). One expert in our neighborhood says that the railroads around here used wheelbarrows to load coal in to tenders. I'd like to see an old-time photo of that. Anyway, I'm still trying to decide whether to use some sort of platform with little people running wheelbarrows, or a jib crane, or a conveyor. They all present some neat modeling scenes. Show us a photo of what you end up doing with it Sean.
Originally posted by Barry - November 18 2013 : 8:04:16 PM
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Sean ; The picture you paint here is one of the early 1830's and 40's. It didn't last long. Large structures to support steam were being built in the 1850's. Of course small railways didn't have the need for speed, with few trains running on them. Even there a loco would be run to a lower track and coal loaded using gravity. A truck delivered coal, it dumped into a holding bin on a higher level where the coal could be released to slide down and fill the engines tender below. Shoveling ton after ton of coal wore out people quickly.
Coal was used very early by the British who pioneered the use of it. Here with all of forests we burned wood. 2 cords of wood is much easily loaded from raised platforms along the track then
frank
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Posted - November 20 2013 : 08:51:07 AM
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Frank, Barry's not so far off the beam. Hand shoveling and the use of loaders like the one in this thread were not so far in the past. When my dad was a kid, the coal truck driver used a shovel to get the coal from the truck to the basement coal bin. I've seen a retail coal shed that, by its design, had to have been filled by standing in the carload of coal and shoveling the coal into hatches along the wall of the shed.
Conveyors like the one in the thread would make coal loading comparatively easy and would not be all that unprototypical during any time that a coal yard could exist.
As for loading coal by hand from platforms into locomotives, Cass still is set up for that, though they have a conveyor like the one in this thread, only smaller, to speed the work along.
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