i’m going to get a coal tipple eventually but i need to know something. a CT(coal tipple) is just a stoage “bin”. how the the coal get up there in the first place. the CT i want simply stands on the track there’s nothing to fill it. is that something that could be easily made? or is there another ho scale CT thats still in prodouction-- the CT i’m considering is a Life-Like operating coal tipple w/ hopper car. apparently it’s going out of production.(it’s the only one i found)
Very few people have operating coal tipples. Of the ones I’ve seen the owner either removes the roof of the tipple and pours a bucket of coal in the top or they have some sort of auger system to move coal up into the bin.
Dave H.
The coal is fed to the tipple building by a large belt conveyor. The coal tipple is not a storage bin, but a building used to process coal. Here, the coal is cleaned, crushed ,and sorted and then either directly loaded to train cars/trucks or to a storage pile for later loading.
If you are talking about a coaling tower, the coal was loaded into the bins in the old days by hoist buckets and then later by bucket or belt conveyors.
Son of a coal miner,
REX[:)]
so a belt conveyer feeds the tipple- i take it that means the conv. brings coal up from the mine to the CT?
Modern underground mines do use conveyors to bring the coal to the surface. Depending on the size of the mine determines just how many. A large mine will usually be able to switch to a holding pile so that underground production is not interrupted by any maintenance or breakdown at the coal processing plant (tipple) and the coal is fed from there to the tipple via another converyor. The output of the coal can either be directly loaded into hoppers, placed in a holding pile/ then to hoppers, or go a long distance to a spur via conveyor and loaded into hoppers.
Surface mines will have trucks take the coal from the pit to a holding pile and then a conveyor feeds the tipple.
Take a look at this link and look at the different mine sites by the menu: http://www.jimwalterresources.com/No-7Mine.html