I have got a question related to older country grain elevators.
They have a flexible pipe/nozzle to fill the box car. One of my kits did not have that part because it would be hidden in a closed loading dock I did not install. I remember to have seen that part in the Walthers online catalog.
But it has a specific name I have forgotten. It is not pipe or nozzle. I need the name of that device to search the Walthers side. I remember something that sounds like “strout”.
Do you know the correct US English word for that “nozzle” on old grain elevators to load box cars?
The problem is the time frame. The spout on the photos are the new ones. They are used to fill covered hoppers. They are basically long pipes.
I am looking for an old spout that was used to fill box cars. They are much shorter and consisted of several short tubes stacked into each other to form a flexible device. I have two of them mounted to two elevators and look for one more for my third elevator.
The elevator in the front is the one without a spout.
I editted my original post after I reread yours. Some of those photos have two spouts, one high for covered hoppers and a low one for box cars. I think in many cases there was some flexible hose that attached to the spout to get inside teh box car.
Most of the original elevators has a ‘spout’ that looked like a long string of buckets with no bottom. They were attached to each other with small chain. Remember, there was no flexible plastic/rubber materials before the turn of the century.
That is how the plastic parts look and how I saw it on pictures. It is not so easy to build that kind of part from scratch. For the time being I did take straight plastic part. It is gray and in the back and not a prominent part.
However, I will replace it when I get hold of a better part.
