I'm scratch building the tower that was in Durango and it has been a struggle to find photos of the bucket tracks and the coal bin for the drop gons; your video has been a huge help! Love the narrow gauge content and the fun you guys have! Thanks again.
I've learned more about a coaling tower today than in my 53 years in the hobby. You two have one great video after another. Thank you two for a superlative effort to have this video for posterity, many thanks👍👍👍👍!
Thank you ,thank you, thank you so much for the coaling tower video at Chama. We enjoyed it so much. We have ridden the train at Chama several times and this answers questions we had about the coaling tower. We love watching your videos.
What a fantastic video. I love everything about your videos, because they are so exact. History is great and you two bring it back by sharing the truth about how everything really worked. Thank you for sharing your videos. ❤️
I can't get enough of these videos! It's so nice to just see some older folks jumping around just being rail enthusiasts! Something about it is so wholesome that it just keeps me watching! Great video!
Loved this episode! I was definitely not disappointed. It was very informative and interesting. I have seen old mine towers throughout Colorado but I've never seen a coaling tower before. I've always been one who looks at things to see how they work, it's always been a passion to see how things are constructed and what makes them tick. May I take some coal home? 😁 I had thoroughly enjoyed your deep dive into this coaling tower. Thanks again for another great video!
Thanks for sharing the workings of the coaling tower. I always want to know exactly how they worked to be able to model it as close to the real thing as possible. It is amazing how they made things work back then. Just like mine hoist building with very large steam driven hoist motors. Most everything built back then was made to last and operate for ever just like this coaling tower. Be safe and see you on Tuesday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
This has been one of the most interesting video you have done in quit some time. I have enjoyed this on and I was able to capture the sound file without any problem. The Coaling tower sounds like a mine shaft car being lifted.
Thats really cool that they still have the Fairbanks engine in there. I collect old engines and its really neat to see something like that still at its original work site. Thanks for the video, I can't wait to get out to the Cumbres and Toltec and see everything for myself!
first of all ,I enjoy your channel very,very much.I have started building this exact tower and was stuck with the same problems as you have.Only problem is ,I live in South Africa ,so going there was impossible.Your video was extremely helpfull and I was able to complete the project,thanks to your video.Once you understand the working of the tower, the build and understanding what you see in the pictures becomes a lot easier . Keep up the great content and the way you 2 are binging it to the viewer
South Africa! Yup this tower “kit” was a challenge. I STILL haven’t quite finished mine! Mostly. I just need to install the buckets and bucket tracks. And finish the paint.
14:54 Best pipe hangers ever! 35:20 Gear teeth covers added to keep visitors errant fingers, hands, arms & legs from being crushed. No way the original RR employees got that consideration. I was in the gear tower of a rotating steel swing bridge once that had about half a dozen gears like that. No guard fence, gear covers or anything. "Meat tenderizer!"
Tie plates. “Century plates”? 100 uses. Or 101. Paper weight.. frisbee…dinner plate…steam punk jewelry.. oh and tie plate. Or sleeper plate for our British friends.
That was a very informative & detailed video. Interested in seeing your discoveries incorporated into your coal tower. The "draw works" was very nice. Some insights might be gotten from the 1920's petroleum industry drilling rigs. Good luck and happy building.
What a fascinating, in depth look at something that I have always been fascinated by. Thank you for this detail. As always, your episodes are fun, informative and entertaining!
That was really interesting and fun to watch. It is fun to see how things were done before all the fancy ways it would be done today. The mistry handle on the FB engine is a compression release for hand starting or a shutdown handle by holding a engine valve open. That big round cans thing is a muffler. At 100 rpm it doesn't take a lot to knock any exhaust bark down. That bucket system has been bothering me for some time because I've seen the same layout being used elsewhere in a few places. It's really a simple system to do a more complex task. It's rather elegant in its simplicity. I think I remember seeing it was used feeding limestone into the processing unit at an old cement plant or feeding ore into into a stampmill at a mine. Oh! It was used to load scrap fish into retort for cooking, back in the 60s. It's fun how things like this can jog loose memories from long ago. Thank you for sharing this with us, the audio of it working was wonderful.
Very nice! Great to see the inner workings especially the old FM engine. Getting rid of the coal on the ground reminded me of when I worked on the Flying Scotsman on part of its USA tour. After being coaled up with a front end loader there was a lot of coal chunks on the ground and the boss asked me to see what I could do about getting rid of them so people could walk around. So I looked around and saw the people coming to look at the train, especially children and came up with an idea. I called out to the visiting children, "How would you like a free souvenir from the Flying Scotsman?" After a while coal was gone.
Very helpful. I've got an N scale walthers modern coaling tower and while the two are very different, I believe I've got a good idea of how the coaling towers generally worked and now know how to landscape and weather mine. Much thanks!
Very informative and interesting. God knows my life is so slow! You did give me an idea, so thanks! Great detail on the construction and operation of this coaling tower. Also shows how plans are one thing and the actual structure can be misleading.
A little more info on that Fairbanks Y: The Y series was a 2 stroke diesel, that large canister coming off of the exhaust is called an "exhaust pot" and they served a couple purposes. You are right that it does act as a muffler but they were also meant to catch any unburnt oil that would otherwise make its way back down the exhaust pipe and back into the engine.
Dale, You should quit your day job and teach quantum physics at an Ivy League College! After listening to how this coaling tower works, I went outside, and banged my head on the side of my car to recalibrate my spinning head. I love everything about the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR, having rode it from Chama to Antonito in 1995. Loved the ride, love the history, love the scenery, and love your videos about the different aspects of this RR. 😀🚂👍
@@ToyManTelevision I was just kidding about ‘calibrating’ my head. My head is made out of cement, so I wouldn’t want to scratch or dent my car. I look forward to viewing your sand house video tour. 😀 You and your lovely wife put out such wonderful videos. 😁👍♥️🌺🚂
@@dennisammann9104 i hit myself all the time. Well in my mind. “No!!! Stupid! Next time use the right tool! Make two trips! Drink beer AFTER modeling!!”
I actually came across and converted some 8mm home videos from when C&Ts first started. One of the videos actually shows a locomotive and rotary being filled with coal from the tower
Nope. Dead. We did something of a show… they had the bad idea to use it as a sand “tower”. Filled it with sand. Which got wet. And the whole thing is a mess. ruclips.net/video/rBVCIi7NXxw/видео.html
@@ToyManTelevision Sounds like something know it all Bassett would do. Doesn't make any sense though, since the loco's use a lot more coal than sand. Also Bassett is usually pretty picky about a piece of equipment being properly restored for its original purpose.
Have you ever been to S & S short line train park in Farmington, Ut they expanded there park with more tracks so take a look at it and see the cool things that they have.
Very interesting, even if I may not build a coaling tower. The compressed air tank is a nice traffic generator for a layout. But my industrial narrow gauge locomotives aren't equipped with air :-(
Hi. As far as I know they aren’t planning to ever use it except for demonstrating. However ever is a very very long time. So I’ll bet someday they will.
When I was building a model of the Durango coaling tower, I ran into a detail that stopped me cold. The coal bin has a planked sloped floor. The bottom of the coal door is above the floor. The pivots for the door's arms are mounted on the floor joists below the floor. That means there have to be slots in the floor for the arms. What keeps the coal from falling out through the slots? None of the plans I had showed that detail. So the next time I was in Chama, I got permission to climb up on the hoist house to take a look. It turns out that the bin has side slope floors (duh), much like the concrete car unloading bins. There is a void under each side slope and above the main floor. The bottom edge of side slopes stop just inside (towards the center of the bin) where the coal door arms are located. Near its bottom, the main floor splits into 3 sections. There are two small triangular walls that rest on the center section. They support the bottom edges of the side slope floors and create a chute to the coal door. To the outside (left and right) of these walls are gaps in the main floor for the coal door's arms.
How do you account for changes and modifications made over the years? Also to explain the air supply and compressor, a lot of railroads were cash poor, at least to pay for stuff like an air compressor. I once heard it said about many railroads, and money, they could budget a dollar to pay for something to be built in house and get 99 cents back. My wife thinks the third track, on the coal buckets, is a counter weight like a window sash. One of the items about railroads is economics. Remember the Rio Grande was in bankruptcy for many many years until after WWII. Most of the reason why the narrow gauge lasted as long as it did, no money to convert to standard gauge. Before Rio Grande built the coal tower, it was probably cheaper then having a gang of men shoveling coal. If you want a good book that touches on railroad economics, Jim McClellan's book, My Life With Trains.
It looks to me you have the angle iron tracks for strictly the wheels to ride on and then the other track is the dump guide.. that a another wheel or nub / slide bracket follows to when it gets to the top it tips the bucket over... I don't think there was other cables involved... Looks like it just had a nub that stuck out to follow the dump tracks all the way to the top ..then the guy it's just automatically tipped the bucket. Another words the rack around the bucket is separate from the bucket guides. The bucket uses the outside guides that follows the dump tracks. mechanism.
I may be wrong here BUT, I will take a stab at this. It seems to me one of the pulleys should ride in the "unused" track. I would think the top would be on the back set of tracks. This would dump the bin over. The bottom pully should ride in the outer most track. The outer track should run up a bit passed where the inner track curves to dump the bucket. The bottom wheels / pulleys running in the outer track will then go up above the angled inner track. This would fully dump the bucket, because the the bottom would wind up higher then the top of the bucket, because the top when up over the curved section. I think what happened, the system jammed and the folks who fixed it did not fully understand how it worked and got the bottom wheels / pulleys on the wrong track. Also having the bottom wheels in the outer most track would have the bucket lean a tad forward and that would help when loading the coal at the bottom of the pit. Just what I can see when I play this threw in my mind. Let me know what you think.
Yup. What I missed is that the bucket is hinged at the bottom and free at the top. The frame rides on the outer track. The wheels on the top of the bucket are riding on the curved inside tracks. So the frame stays straight up and down and only the bucket tips. If it came off the track it would tip over half way up. Totally free to tip.
Just once I'd like to see a coaling tower being used for it's intended purpose - feeding the tender of a steam locomotive. Its kinda surprising how many steam locomotives, and how many coaling towers have been preserved, yet as far as I know NONE of them are actually used for anything except display, or in this case, demonstration. Can't think of a single time I've seen one used on film, except for old videos from the steam era obviously.
Way to" Sherlock Holmes" the coaling tower ,I musta missed how the buckets filled,gondola dump in pit & a shoot to the buckets,with some kinda gate to control when the buckets full ?
Hay guys a good story for a future time would be a deep dive on the SS Sultana which sank on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis Tennessee April 1865 a very tragic accident that did not need to happen if it went for greed and it had survives of Andersonville George
I'm scratch building the tower that was in Durango and it has been a struggle to find photos of the bucket tracks and the coal bin for the drop gons; your video has been a huge help! Love the narrow gauge content and the fun you guys have! Thanks again.
I've learned more about a coaling tower today than in my 53 years in the hobby. You two have one great video after another. Thank you two for a superlative effort to have this video for posterity, many thanks👍👍👍👍!
Thanks. Now later.. the sand house…
Always enjoy these two chatting away!
Thanks!! Er tanks.. we need to dive into the water tank.
WOW The sound of the coal bin working was awesome, Thank you.
I really wanted that sound.
Certainly not "overly detailed". We come to watch your amazing videos exactly for the detail. Thankyou.
Your videos are always amazing. Never boring, always informative, always fantastic.
Thank you ,thank you, thank you so much for the coaling tower video at Chama. We enjoyed it so much. We have ridden the train at Chama several times and this answers questions we had about the coaling tower. We love watching your videos.
Your videos are never boring. Very informative. You are a wealth of knowledge and make a great husband and wife team.
Nice weather . What a great coal tower. Have a great week
Great episode! You two are saving a special piece of history!
Live in fear that a spark will end this wonderful structure. So the more we all know… bet the friends would find a way to rebuild
Best explanation on how this unique feature works. Thanks to both of you. Very informative!!
you two are great together! Never realized what good modelers you are! Love seeing your adventures thanks for sharing with us all
What a fantastic video. I love everything about your videos, because they are so exact. History is great and you two bring it back by sharing the truth about how everything really worked. Thank you for sharing your videos. ❤️
Now I wish I was starting at the beginning of the coaling tower model. No matter, make a few changes where possible and call it good.
@@ToyManTelevision It will still be amazing, so much more than others in accuracy!
I can't get enough of these videos! It's so nice to just see some older folks jumping around just being rail enthusiasts! Something about it is so wholesome that it just keeps me watching! Great video!
Thanks!! All these friends of the CATS. At 70 I’m the youngster.
@@ToyManTelevision 😂
Loved this episode! I was definitely not disappointed. It was very informative and interesting. I have seen old mine towers throughout Colorado but I've never seen a coaling tower before. I've always been one who looks at things to see how they work, it's always been a passion to see how things are constructed and what makes them tick. May I take some coal home? 😁
I had thoroughly enjoyed your deep dive into this coaling tower. Thanks again for another great video!
Thanks!!!
Oh, and hi! Yup wanna do this for the Argo mill.
Your You Tube videos bring a lot of joy.😄
Excellent photo coverage and commentary .
Thanks
Thanks for sharing the workings of the coaling tower. I always want to know exactly how they worked to be able to model it as close to the real thing as possible. It is amazing how they made things work back then. Just like mine hoist building with very large steam driven hoist motors. Most everything built back then was made to last and operate for ever just like this coaling tower. Be safe and see you on Tuesday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Thanks Dale! That will help me a lot with my HOn3 coaling tower!! ...Claude
Great video you two, thanks for the education!
This has been one of the most interesting video you have done in quit some time. I have enjoyed this on and I was able to capture the sound file without any problem. The Coaling tower sounds like a mine shaft car being lifted.
Thais was a great episode !!! Loved all the info and demo !!!!
Thats really cool that they still have the Fairbanks engine in there. I collect old engines and its really neat to see something like that still at its original work site. Thanks for the video, I can't wait to get out to the Cumbres and Toltec and see everything for myself!
Shame the coaling tower is usually locked up. But in the fall when the Friends are working.. perhaps one can open the door.
first of all ,I enjoy your channel very,very much.I have started building this exact tower and was stuck with the same problems as you have.Only problem is ,I live in South Africa ,so going there was impossible.Your video was extremely helpfull and I was able to complete the project,thanks to your video.Once you understand the working of the tower, the build and understanding what you see in the pictures becomes a lot easier . Keep up the great content and the way you 2 are binging it to the viewer
South Africa! Yup this tower “kit” was a challenge. I STILL haven’t quite finished mine! Mostly. I just need to install the buckets and bucket tracks. And finish the paint.
Very interesting story loved it👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
Another GREAT video from pun central. You guys always keep us entertained. Thank You. You always make my day !!!!!
14:54 Best pipe hangers ever! 35:20 Gear teeth covers added to keep visitors errant fingers, hands, arms & legs from being crushed. No way the original RR employees got that consideration. I was in the gear tower of a rotating steel swing bridge once that had about half a dozen gears like that. No guard fence, gear covers or anything. "Meat tenderizer!"
Tie plates. “Century plates”? 100 uses. Or 101. Paper weight.. frisbee…dinner plate…steam punk jewelry.. oh and tie plate. Or sleeper plate for our British friends.
You forget something called OSHA(Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
The detailed information was outstanding Dale.
I'm so impressed by your attention to detail you really know how to go to the lengths to make yours authentic. Great video guys!
Thanks
Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
That was a very informative & detailed video. Interested in seeing your discoveries incorporated into your coal tower. The "draw works" was very nice. Some insights might be gotten from the 1920's petroleum industry drilling rigs. Good luck and happy building.
There is a somewhat similar tower in use at the Ford museum. Greenfield Village Railroad. If they can decovid America we are off!
I would love to see the coaling tower refurbished and used again in Chama
So would the railroad. The coal now is often wet or covered with snow. It’s why they tried to get this thing working. No joy though…
What a fascinating, in depth look at something that I have always been fascinated by. Thank you for this detail. As always, your episodes are fun, informative and entertaining!
That was really interesting and fun to watch. It is fun to see how things were done before all the fancy ways it would be done today.
The mistry handle on the FB engine is a compression release for hand starting or a shutdown handle by holding a engine valve open. That big round cans thing is a muffler. At 100 rpm it doesn't take a lot to knock any exhaust bark down.
That bucket system has been bothering me for some time because I've seen the same layout being used elsewhere in a few places. It's really a simple system to do a more complex task. It's rather elegant in its simplicity.
I think I remember seeing it was used feeding limestone into the processing unit at an old cement plant or feeding ore into into a stampmill at a mine. Oh! It was used to load scrap fish into retort for cooking, back in the 60s.
It's fun how things like this can jog loose memories from long ago.
Thank you for sharing this with us, the audio of it working was wonderful.
Very nice! Great to see the inner workings especially the old FM engine. Getting rid of the coal on the ground reminded me of when I worked on the Flying Scotsman on part of its USA tour. After being coaled up with a front end loader there was a lot of coal chunks on the ground and the boss asked me to see what I could do about getting rid of them so people could walk around. So I looked around and saw the people coming to look at the train, especially children and came up with an idea. I called out to the visiting children, "How would you like a free souvenir from the Flying Scotsman?" After a while coal was gone.
Well done, Mr. toy Man!!!!!
Very helpful. I've got an N scale walthers modern coaling tower and while the two are very different, I believe I've got a good idea of how the coaling towers generally worked and now know how to landscape and weather mine. Much thanks!
Right on
I'm thinking that FBM "Y" mystery handle is a fuel shut off. And I love those old hot bulb engines.
Wasn't it also used for decompression for hand starting?
@@krissfemmpaws1029 Exactly what I was thinking.
Great Stuff! You overdone yourselves!
Thanks
Very informative and interesting. God knows my life is so slow! You did give me an idea, so thanks! Great detail on the construction and operation of this coaling tower. Also shows how plans are one thing and the actual structure can be misleading.
That place is so cool.
Well it looks like you got a lot of modifications to do to your calling Tower there good luck with the adjustments 👍👍
A little more info on that Fairbanks Y: The Y series was a 2 stroke diesel, that large canister coming off of the exhaust is called an "exhaust pot" and they served a couple purposes. You are right that it does act as a muffler but they were also meant to catch any unburnt oil that would otherwise make its way back down the exhaust pipe and back into the engine.
Thanks!! Interesting
Nicely done
Great video!
This makes me wish I get a lump of coal for Christmas rather than a sack of ashes! Thanks for the detailed tour.👏👏👏👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🙏🏼
Excellent video
Dale, You should quit your day job and teach quantum physics at an Ivy League College! After listening to how this coaling tower works, I went outside, and banged my head on the side of my car to recalibrate my spinning head. I love everything about the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR, having rode it from Chama to Antonito in 1995. Loved the ride, love the history, love the scenery, and love your videos about the different aspects of this RR. 😀🚂👍
Don’t hit yourself!!!! Ever. And, Er… don’t hit anything or anyone. Hum… anyway it gets weirder when we look into the sand house!!! Soon!
@@ToyManTelevision I was just kidding about ‘calibrating’ my head. My head is made out of cement, so I wouldn’t want to scratch or dent my car. I look forward to viewing your sand house video tour. 😀 You and your lovely wife put out such wonderful videos. 😁👍♥️🌺🚂
@@dennisammann9104 i hit myself all the time. Well in my mind. “No!!! Stupid! Next time use the right tool! Make two trips! Drink beer AFTER modeling!!”
I actually came across and converted some 8mm home videos from when C&Ts first started.
One of the videos actually shows a locomotive and rotary being filled with coal from the tower
Awesome!!
Thanks
You should do a video on the Nevada Northern Coal tower which I understand is being used.
Nope. Dead. We did something of a show… they had the bad idea to use it as a sand “tower”. Filled it with sand. Which got wet. And the whole thing is a mess.
ruclips.net/video/rBVCIi7NXxw/видео.html
@@ToyManTelevision Sounds like something know it all Bassett would do. Doesn't make any sense though, since the loco's use a lot more coal than sand. Also Bassett is usually pretty picky about a piece of equipment being properly restored for its original purpose.
Have you ever been to S & S short line train park in Farmington, Ut they expanded there park with more tracks so take a look at it and see the cool things that they have.
Want to!!! Really really want to. Just haven’t figured out how and when.
Very interesting, even if I may not build a coaling tower.
The compressed air tank is a nice traffic generator for a layout. But my industrial narrow gauge locomotives aren't equipped with air :-(
Oh no!! So perhaps you need an air compressor. Gas or electric.
Are they still working on this to prevent this from derailing? Or are they not planning on using this for operations anymore?
Hi. As far as I know they aren’t planning to ever use it except for demonstrating. However ever is a very very long time. So I’ll bet someday they will.
Are the two buckets linked together? One goes up and the other down
Yup. The full one has about a ton in it! At least the other one counters the weight of the bucket.
Those buckets are similar to the skip cars that fed our blast furnaces at Geneva Steel.
When I was building a model of the Durango coaling tower, I ran into a detail that stopped me cold. The coal bin has a planked sloped floor. The bottom of the coal door is above the floor. The pivots for the door's arms are mounted on the floor joists below the floor. That means there have to be slots in the floor for the arms. What keeps the coal from falling out through the slots? None of the plans I had showed that detail.
So the next time I was in Chama, I got permission to climb up on the hoist house to take a look. It turns out that the bin has side slope floors (duh), much like the concrete car unloading bins. There is a void under each side slope and above the main floor. The bottom edge of side slopes stop just inside (towards the center of the bin) where the coal door arms are located. Near its bottom, the main floor splits into 3 sections. There are two small triangular walls that rest on the center section. They support the bottom edges of the side slope floors and create a chute to the coal door. To the outside (left and right) of these walls are gaps in the main floor for the coal door's arms.
Hard to figure out. The inside is always full of coal. And from the outside it’s hard to tell.
that was great
Did you end up with sound effects for your model? Trying to put some on my son’s layout and they have been extremely hard to find!
Can you record it off of this video? I put clean audio at the end.
Good point, thanks!
With regard to the coal bucket tracks, think old style one piece garage door.
14:54 Never thought of using tie plates to secure a pipe to a wall!
Tie plate brackets. To hold the air pipe on the wall.
How do you account for changes and modifications made over the years?
Also to explain the air supply and compressor, a lot of railroads were cash poor, at least to pay for stuff like an air compressor. I once heard it said about many railroads, and money, they could budget a dollar to pay for something to be built in house and get 99 cents back.
My wife thinks the third track, on the coal buckets, is a counter weight like a window sash.
One of the items about railroads is economics. Remember the Rio Grande was in bankruptcy for many many years until after WWII. Most of the reason why the narrow gauge lasted as long as it did, no money to convert to standard gauge. Before Rio Grande built the coal tower, it was probably cheaper then having a gang of men shoveling coal. If you want a good book that touches on railroad economics, Jim McClellan's book, My Life With Trains.
It looks to me you have the angle iron tracks for strictly the wheels to ride on and then the other track is the dump guide.. that a another wheel or nub / slide bracket follows to when it gets to the top it tips the bucket over... I don't think there was other cables involved... Looks like it just had a nub that stuck out to follow the dump tracks all the way to the top ..then the guy it's just automatically tipped the bucket.
Another words the rack around the bucket is separate from the bucket guides. The bucket uses the outside guides that follows the dump tracks. mechanism.
Yup. And the bottom axle is the pivot. Still like to see the middle wheel. But betting it’s the same wheel.
@@ToyManTelevision yes the frame stays on the angle iron tracks and the bucket position is guided by the bucket track to the dump curve.
I may be wrong here BUT, I will take a stab at this. It seems to me one of the pulleys should ride in the "unused" track. I would think the top would be on the back set of tracks. This would dump the bin over. The bottom pully should ride in the outer most track. The outer track should run up a bit passed where the inner track curves to dump the bucket. The bottom wheels / pulleys running in the outer track will then go up above the angled inner track. This would fully dump the bucket, because the the bottom would wind up higher then the top of the bucket, because the top when up over the curved section. I think what happened, the system jammed and the folks who fixed it did not fully understand how it worked and got the bottom wheels / pulleys on the wrong track. Also having the bottom wheels in the outer most track would have the bucket lean a tad forward and that would help when loading the coal at the bottom of the pit. Just what I can see when I play this threw in my mind. Let me know what you think.
Yup. What I missed is that the bucket is hinged at the bottom and free at the top. The frame rides on the outer track. The wheels on the top of the bucket are riding on the curved inside tracks. So the frame stays straight up and down and only the bucket tips. If it came off the track it would tip over half way up. Totally free to tip.
@@ToyManTelevision In any case, That is a most impressive model! Well above my modeling skills. Keep up the great model work and love your videos. :)
The manufacturer of the kit doesn't expect that anyone would model what is inside the building, only the exterior, visible stuff.
Just once I'd like to see a coaling tower being used for it's intended purpose - feeding the tender of a steam locomotive.
Its kinda surprising how many steam locomotives, and how many coaling towers have been preserved, yet as far as I know NONE of them are actually used for anything except display, or in this case, demonstration.
Can't think of a single time I've seen one used on film, except for old videos from the steam era obviously.
Way to" Sherlock Holmes"
the coaling tower ,I musta missed how the buckets filled,gondola dump in pit & a shoot to the buckets,with some kinda gate to control when the buckets full ?
The big wheels in the hoist room open big gates that dump the coal into the bucket.
@@ToyManTelevision Thank ya kindly
Heh.... did you know that there are two sets of webcams up near the top of the coaling tower, Toy Man? :)
Yup!! I’ve watch at times..
@@ToyManTelevision Noice :3
And just wondering.... ever got a chance to wave to the webcams? :)
Hay guys a good story for a future time would be a deep dive on the SS Sultana which sank on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis Tennessee April 1865 a very tragic accident that did not need to happen if it went for greed and it had survives of Andersonville George
The ladder is wrong. They need a shorter ladder. That one is unsafe!
It's a bucket elevator mechanism, that's all. If you research these common devices, the more information you will obtain.
It would have made much better sense to use a steam engine which would be powered off of a locomotive.
air compressor! We don't need no stinkin air compressor!
I wonder how many people fell off that sob
More than a few