Did anyone ever model one of these? Or does anyone sell a kit for them? I would model one if maybe someone has the specs on it. Below is a short video of one.
Thanks
MIKE
Hummmmm! Interesting. Am I correct in presuming it is some sort of sealant sprayed on the surface of the load to keep the dust down? Seems to be a two part process, as each arch sprayed all the loads. Seems they don’t want to overspray much, very accurate.
Wouldn’t think it would be too hard to model, even from what you see there. A couple of arches made from girder material and some round stock for piping. Would seem there would be a servicing house close by and a tank to hold the solution. Up the hill maybe?
Never have seen one or a kit for one. Maybe someone has. Give one a scratch building try and let us know what you came up with.
Have fun,
Richard
Thanks for posting that Mike.
I agree with Richard. Of all the things one can scratch build this looks to be simple and straight forward. Micro Engineering sells lace girders by the bag. That along with some tubing and Styrene and pre-fab stairs and you would have one.
Good luck.
Thanks guys for the ideas. From this other video you can see the facility on the top of the hill. Would that building have anything to do with the sprayer? This is something I have to try to kitbash or even scratchbuild. It looks VERY interesting. I never knew these even exixted till yesturday, lol. With some scratchbuilding and the boxes of sprare parts from, FSM, SHEEPSCOT, BUILDERS N SCALE, ECT I’am sure I can come up with something. I’ll post pics of my progress.
BELOW IS A SECOND VIDEO.
Looks to me like they are spraying something clear on the coal. Seems to me that anything that models a water sprayer would work for this latex stuff.
There was an photo in Model Railroader in the 40s where a train washer was modeled using a blower and a cigarette. The fan blew the smoke into a tube that connected to the locomotive washer, and small holes in the washer arch let the smoke out onto the locomotives. Once the smoke hit the locomotive, it spread out and dissipated. The effect was very realistic.
With much better smoke generators today, the cigarette could be replaced with a safer and healthier smoke generator. A small fan, say from a discarded computer, could be used to blow the smoke up to the “sprayer” on top. A toggle and a photo sensor could allow the unit to be turned on whenever and have the spraying synchronized with the train cars. Put the photo sensor under the sprayer, and set it up so that when a car is covering the sensor, the fan turns on and blows smoke through the tube. The toggle acts as a lock-out for the fan to keep it from spraying on the locomotives or on every train that passes.
The generator could be on all the time, or another toggle could turn it off when no coal trains are scheduled.
S&S
I would suspect the big cement berm is a huge water reservoir. Maybe one tank on top is for storing the latex goo, while the other larger tank stores the finished mix. The building is where it is done, piping, pumps, controls etc.
It would be interesting to know what the latex goo is.
Can anyone tell me where this coal is coming from?
HERE’S A LINK TO WERE THE COAL COMES FROM
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,2627261
TTGVP Presents… The last latex sprayer on the CP before reaching Port sits East of Notch Hill on the Shuswap Sub. …