Haven't seen it in the flesh (I often go to train shows naked) but there was a thread long ago of a fellow that built a working tower loader and Walthers rotary dumper. He used dyed crushed Walnut shells for his coal, because it flowed well. He had also modified #5 kadees so they rotated, 1 per hopper. That worked, so long as they were all at the same end of each car.Has anyone tried or seen live loads in a club or modular show setting? How did it go? I wasn't thinking livestock as much as coal or gravel. I'm curious about your experiences.
And you probably get just enough meat off of one to make a McDonald's hamburger!I run live O scale cattle. Run 'em up little chutes into the stock cars.
And being O scale, they only smell about 1/48 as bad a real cows.
Nope, run those coal cars as much as possible. All the trucks are tuned with the same metal wheels.All it takes is ONE derail to change your mind. I watched a 40 hopper string all flip over on a club layout years ago. (Club gone now) Took them 10 minutes to shop-vac the coal off the layout. The layout was designed that all the area around the tipple and dumpers had all scenery sealed so they wouldn't vacuum up the scenery with the coal.
Did you have handling facilities to load and unload the train as well?
If you insist...Terry, you can't drop that punchline and not tell the story. That makes the 40 car derailment mentioned earlier sound like it was done by amateurs and Tom's single car spill the work of a mere beginner.
Did you have handling facilities to load and unload the train as well?
I figured that's what Terry would have needed.Toot, I'm not sure what we're looking at. To me it looks like some sort of closed loop double filtered particulate collection system.