Hi Kelvin,
I love your choice of Area's to model. The Winter Wonderland, if
you need a really nice, small station to drop all the miners off
so they can work in the mines, I have the perfect station.
A really nice Stone flag stop station, in "S" scale.
You could take the miners to work in a railbus (backwood
miniatures has a great one), and pick them back up at the end of
the day.
I would like to see your track plan for this groovy little
backwoods coal line.
Have a groovy evening
Bob Black
Clinton Township, Michigan
Clinton Valley Railroad
Beaver Creek Railroad
--- Kelvin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> A 1950s coal question for a proposed S scale 'North Michigan
> backwater' layout.
>
> Whilst some domestic coal moved in boxcars and was shovelled
> out into the coal sheds, the majority of it was carried in 2
> bay hoppers. For domestic coal I presume a hopper would need a
> raised coal trestle or drop. What was the minimum clearance
> required under the trestle - did it have to be a full six foot
> to allow somebody to stand at the back of the cell to shovel
> it out or could it be less. Would the floor of the 'cell'
> under the trestle be sloped to ease unloading and drainage.
> It the 50s would coal be bagged or loaded into a truck and
> delivered in bulk to the cellar? In all case I'm talking
> about minimal provision - no towering great coal
> elevator/silo!
>
> Thanks
>
> Kelvin White
> Oxford, England
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