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Re: Rotary dump for hopper cars (was: Round parts on the side of...)
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:02:16 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach writes:
> If the circle ends up being a bit too small to center the couplers, couldn't
> you build a different hopper that has the couplers a brick or two higher?
Definitely. I bet you could even find a prototype for it somewhere if you
hunted hard enough. Perhaps body mounted rather than truck mounted would be
necessary to avoid somewhat silly looking trucks, though.
> Sure, it would only work with other hoppers with the same coupler design,
> but most of the trains I see with rotary hoppers are nothing BUT hoppers!
Yep. They're called unit trains for a reason... :-)
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