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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4149

Rob
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What an awesome facility to model.... I hope those photos are an incentive to venture down that road. J.B. While I am focusing on the East Penn, I feel the W&N would be a most awesome line to model. Quarries , mining, steel mills, chemical plants, float operations, scrap lines from so many railroads for Modena, interchanges with the PRR at Birdsboro, Suplee and Coatesville, the B&O at Elsmere......with both at Wilmington and otherwise phenomenal scenery and one giant snake curve from Birdsboro to Wilmington, lol. (oh yeah and lots of RS-3's)

Rob

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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4150

JoannaBill OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 422 Thank you received: 63	Rob - working on the GM trackplan at this time. At 60-percent plus compression, Grace Mine occupies 6 by 14-feet, just for the Pellet Plant, Mill Building, Hoist and Compressor building and yard trackage. Fills a basement rather quickly.
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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4151

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Here would be my thought - since it is obviously larger than most basements can handle, and assuming that you aren't just modeling that one scene, and still want to do some other portion of trackage to get there. Think about the train size you want to operate. I doubt that you will run 100 car trains. Base it on say a twenty foot long train. Say 3 RS-3's a caboose and whatever is left in hoppers - even that is a big HO train at 28 HTw's. Design the yard for shifting that amount of cars. Maybe 20 hoppers is more realistic, that would bring train length down to about 15 feet. Then design/size the buildings to "fit" that track arrangement and foot print... The buildings will still look huge comparatively, but not as take up exact scale real estate. That might be hard for an engineer mentality to handle... sorry but something has to get adjusted away.

The pelletizer would be a candidate for a building flat but it is between the loader and the other buildings.....

I have a lot of questions about the Mine Turn / RB-20 operation since there seems to be hundreds of cars assigned to the service, but the train went down, loaded and then RB-20 went up to Bethlehem. I suspect they did not unload, but just grabbed and brought home empties that were in Bethlehem waiting from a separate unloading operation by the PBNE as they used the pellets.

just thinking how I might try to get away with the immensity and not dominate the rest of the branch.

Rob

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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4154

rdg1187prr OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 197 Thank you received: 38	I agree that I have yet to see a photo of a HTW with the Orange Ore service panel. The HTc did have a few for ore service like 664486,64519,64501. Htd's 41301 and 41306. So the orange ore service panel wasn't totally reserved for the HTz's John Caples JoannaBill wrote: None of the HTw cars in Ore Service actually had orange end panels. This was limited to the HTz cars.
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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4155

JoannaBill OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 422 Thank you received: 63	You're right John, I forgot the 55-ton Joanna Cars.
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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4156

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	some more HTc numbers for ore service are: 64407, 64432, 64496. does anyone have a list of all the HTc numbers in ore service.
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