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Looking for a small colliery in the anthracite are 9 years 4 months ago #3884

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Now the other five. As MrBill mentioned the South Tamaqua Coal Pockets, it is in full operation, although very very close to former Reading tracks it was never serviced by rail, strictly truck for raw coal, slate removal, and finished retail product. There is Premium Fine Coal a few miles down the road, which just had its siding replaced to truck load hoppers, but that isn't really what you were after Turbo.

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Looking for a small colliery in the anthracite are 9 years 4 months ago #3886

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Wow even without a backdrop that looks eerily real! Very impressive crasftmanship! Thanks for the pictures. I looked up the Dando colliery and didn't find too much, mostly british stuff. Anyone have info on it?
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A little digging produced some online info by Fred Phillips himself:

www.susquehannanmra.org/newsletters/2014/SS0314.pdf

Since you're an N scaler you ought to consider doing a version of the Saint Nicholas breaker. The geometry doesn't look to awfully difficult and the immediate yard trackage is less intense than Locust Summit. Plus there are tons of pics online to work from.
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Here are some photos of a small independent operation called Live Oaks that was on Rt. 901 a mile north of Minersville. Now, not serviced by rail, it gives an idea as to how smaller operations look like, sort of cobbled together.
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MrBill wrote:
A little digging produced some online info by Fred Phillips himself:

www.susquehannanmra.org/newsletters/2014/SS0314.pdf

Since you're an N scaler you ought to consider doing a version of the Saint Nicholas breaker. The geometry doesn't look to awfully difficult and the immediate yard trackage is less intense than Locust Summit. Plus there are tons of pics online to work from.

Thanks for the link! that is a nifty little breaker!

My layout is on a hollow core door, so the reason for a little 2-tracker is to not use the whole door for a breaker haha!

I do hpwever plan to build a full size Locust Summit when I get my "forever home" (I move every 2-4 years in thh Air Force, so I gotta wait til I retire).

My ideal goal in N is to do a minimally compressed Locust Summit and Gordon layout, probably on two levels. I'd love to be able to showcase a 100-hopper train with N1 pushers up the Frackville grade! In N, in a basement, this woould be feasible! On a hollow core door, not so much!
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