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Re: Coal Car Question
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:56:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Dave Schuler writes:
> This isn't really about LEGO, but it is about trains, so here goes:
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> 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?
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> Dave!
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
solid and not fall out after the car is inverted. One RR has a special thawing
shed that heats the cars to free the coal.
Lester
PS: If you wanted to make the coal in a coal car could you use a bunch of black
1x1 plates (like from the mosaic) to create a irregular surface?
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)
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