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Re: Rotary dump for hopper cars (was: Round parts on the side of...)
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Date: 
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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  Re: Rotary dump for hopper cars (was: Round parts on the side of...)
 
(...) 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? Sure, it would only work with other hoppers with the same coupler design, but most of the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)

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