Weekend Update 8/21/11

[rickb773]

Barry Bros.
In the 50s, the PRSL was loaded with coal and lumber traffic. Each town seemed to have 1 or 2 local coal (and lumber) dealers since most of the existing houses had those big octopus-like coal heaters in their dirt-floored, low-ceiling basements. I can remember my father and uncles going down and feeding their furnaces with shovel fulls of coal each winter day. The delivery trucks would pull up to your driveway and aim their chutes through an open basement window to keep the basement coal bin full.

I distinctly remember the coal trestle at Barry Bros. in Westville with a 2 hopper B&O hopper car perched high on top of it, to gravity feed the yard below. So the past few weeks have been spent filling the open hole set apart for the Barry Brothers fuel dealership.

Now all I need to find is a model of the movable coal shute used to move the coal around the yard and fill the delivery trucks. Bueller? Anyone?



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[M.C. Fujiwara]

Cool coal dealer scene!
As for the coal conveyor, Dyna-models makes one.
http://www.nscalesupply.com/DYN/DYN.html

[Chris333]

That Dyna models conveyor has been sold out for years. If anyone knows where to get a couple let me know.

[Darkelf]

Chris,

Model Tech Studios has a car unloader and track conveyor kit:

http://www.modeltechstudios.com/merchant.ihtml?pid=781&lastcatid=5&step=4

- you can try that out..

Regards,
--Greg

[POVC]

went Operating and spent time on the ground


EP

Just to clarify, those two cars are not in fact "on the ground"; all wheels on both cars are still on the rails.  However, the two trucks on both cars in question is on different tracks; one truck on each on the track with the rest of the train and one truck on each on the track between the two trains in the photo...

 

The Yardmaster