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Coal Car Question
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 20 Apr 2001 03:00:03 GMT
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This isn't really about LEGO, but it is about trains, so here goes:
On the trolley home from work tonight, we passed over a train with a long
series of empty coal cars. Looking down into them, I noticed that they really
were empty--almost no loose lumps of coal or gravel, despite the irregular
shape of the container interior. How are these cars emptied? Does part of the
car--or the whole car--tip to dump its contents?
Dave!
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) Could be if it is a rotary dump coal car. I just happened to have posted an MOC of a rotary dump coal car, namely a BethGon Coalporter: (URL) it have half cylinders underneath, or look like the one in the photo? These cars are cool, and they (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| I Southern Estonian the have a rotary, where they grap the car and turn it upside down. I guess that will leave it very empty. Looks just likes Gods hand turning a hopper like we would do. Personally I am more into tipper cars (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) the (...) Some coal cars in the US are dumped by being picked up and turned over. The "doors in the bottom" dump concept does not work because the coal jams up. A problem with the dump method is that sometimes the coal be wet and will freeze (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The car is rotated to empty it out. In the dusty archives of this group is a link to a rotary tipper that someone built. Note that in the prototype, often a cut of cars is rotated *in place*, that is, while still coupled in the train. This (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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