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Re: Pics of my "Auto Hopper" unloading hopper car
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:34:03 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> (I had some Tyco Electric Trucking, remember that, guys?? and i always set
> up my track so that the gravel truck unload ramp was positioned over the
> load bin so tha tthe truck dumped the load into the bin and then could
> trundle down and load back up again)
I still have the Tyco trucking stuff. In fact I have been looking at it to
see if I could use the design. The main problem is that the way the gates
are opened do not allow to let the hopper pass the station so only the last
hopper can be loaded or unloaded.
I have been thinking to make the switch to be 'flexible' in one way so the
train pulls the first hopper over the mechanism, backs up a little bit to
unload it and goes forward again to pull the next hopper over the mechanism,
backs up a little to unload that one and so on. Any ideas how to accomplish
this?
-Frank
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 | | Re: Pics of my "Auto Hopper" unloading hopper car
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| (...) Spiff-o-matic. A bit bulky looking but it's hard to be delicate AND working... I wanna see this baby in action through the whole load/unload cycle. (I had some Tyco Electric Trucking, remember that, guys?? and i always set up my track so that (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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