Any of you guys got any pictures of any model coal tipples or loadouts??
Donald
You mean like these:
This is a modified Walther’s mine on my freelanced Piedmont Southern Railroad.
Another view from ground level:
I have another scratchbuilt mine and a truck dump to supply coal to my hopper fleet.
Dale Latham
Hey, Dale, that is one sweet layout! Congratulations. Photography ain’t too shabby, either. [^][tup]
Love the coal loader,detail detail detail, if I didn’t know any better I’d swear it was real.
Patrick
Heres a photo of the one on the Beaver County Model Rr Clubs layout.
http://bcmrr.com/unionatlantic/pics/2003/coalmine-front.jpg
Very nice indeed, Dale.
I’m not easily impressed but I’ll have to fourth that emotion… [tup][tup][tup]
Jeff
Dale:
Excellent job! The entire scene looks “right”. And you could’ve fooled me with the mine: I would have guessed scratchbuilt. If you’re ever up in this neck of the woods, could ya bring some, please? Woods, I mean: I’ve got acres of bald hillsides and you’ve captured exactly the look I need. Any chance you could elaborate on how you did it?
Wayne
Geat work Dale,
I really like the weathering on that New River building, looks like you ‘rusted’ the individual corrugated steel panels separately.
Guys,
Thanks so much for all of the kind comments.
As far as the mine is concerned, I covered the walls with individual panels of etched Campbell’s corrugated siding. I also opened many of the windows. That is one detail that’s easy to do and really makes a visual difference.
The ‘trees’ are a local weed that is harvested at this time of year. I spray paint it a dark hunter green and then sprinkle on Woodland Scenics coarse medium green ground foam. When planted in clusters it makes what I believe to be a most realistic forest . I have never been a fan of the puff ball forests. So I only use trees by Scenic Express or natural growths to simulate the real thing. I also use real dirt for the basic ground cover before adding weeds and bushes. I use the method of grinding up real leaves in a blender and dried in an oven to represent the fallen leaves on the forest floor.
Thanks again!
Dale
Dumb question: What exactly is a tipple, what does it do, etc. ? My grandson and I are building a layout that has a gravel quarry and they call from a gravel tipple kit that is no longer available. I have some ideas for a substitute, including scratch build from photos of layout we are copying, but I am wondering more about exactly what it is and other suggestions for kits, etc.
Thanks in advance.
John
Hello Dale,
What size’s of corrugated siding,does campbell’s carry ? I plan on building a BOF ,for the steel mill and I’m in need of a ton of corrugated siding.
Patrick
As I understand it, the Tipple is a machine which has a length of track and some supports to allow a car or cars to be run in and turned through 360 degrees to dump the contents. Some cars have rotating couplers to allow them to be tipped without needing to uncouple them.
A tipple and loadout is pretty much the same thing. I have seen names of some coal companys with ether loadout or tipple in the name.
Matt, the machine you are talking about is called a rotary dump.
A picture of my tipple…http://www.freewebs.com/don_csx/ it’s in the back ground. Not a good picture.
Donald
CSX Conductor
A coal tipple is the building located at or near the mine face where the coal is brought to the surface in small mining cars. Many people refer to these structures as a ‘coal mine’, but they are actually tipples. The mine is the shaft dug into or down inside the mountain to reach the coal seam. Tipples were aptly named, for they were the buildings into which the coal mining cars were ‘tipped’ to dump their contents. The coal was then crushed, washed and sized before being dumped into regular railroad hopper cars. Some tipples had adjoining coke ovens where the coal was dumped from the mine cars to produce coke.
In the photo of my model the coal mine entrance is located high on the mountain to the right of the tipple. In this case, the mine cars were unloaded on the hillside and the coal came down to the tipple by conveyor.
That looks fantastic. I am researching mines for a tiple on my lay out but that would be to large.
It looks like home
who still makes a coal tipple as i would like to get one
Wow! That’s one awesome mine, Piedsou!
Don, I’ve been scratchbuilding (or at least attempting to) a modern coal loadout. What a lesson in tolerances. I found out too late that a mark 1 eyeball only takes you so far! The poor thing has a bit of a lean to it. If I shave material in the right places, I might not have to rebuild. Anyway, here are some shots of it:
Dale, I also thought it was a real tipple at first look. Excellent work and that compliment is from a coal miners son that has seen many tipples. We lived near Madisonville, Ky (Providence) up until 1960 and Dad came here to Alabama to surface mine for Drummond. He was a Electric Dragline operator when he retired.
Post your photos on the weekend photo fun. I am sure everyone would like to see them.
Link for those that want to see a large and modern facility:Click the menu at top for more.
http://www.jimwalterresources.com/No-4Mine.html
REX
I just wanted to echo the other sentiments that Dale’s got a great looking tipple scene there. I’m in the final stages of planning for my layout and I’m also dealing with situating a couple of these in. More often than not, coal tipples as modeled on layouts, in my eye, do not have a realistic feel to them. Tipples can be fairly large structures but of course are dwarfed by the mountains typically around them, and Dale’s scene captures that part of the feel very well. The photo is inspiring. I also lover the conveyor across the “holler”. I’d love to see more pictures of the layout.
A. P. Robinson