All my railroads locomotives burn oil, so there is no need for a coaling tower. However I really like them so I was thinking that instead of the railroad spending the money to have the tower torn down, they did some realigning of the tracks and use it to transfer ore from my narrow gauge feeder line to the G&D. Does this sound plausable? Thanks Dave
Absolutely, that is a great idea. In real life it was a bit tedious as the coal/rock/ore must be dumped, loaded into the coaling tower, then loaded into the standard gauge cars. In Salida Colorado the D&RGW developed a rotary dump to speed up the process. The narrow gauge cars were tipped up and dumped directly into the standard gauge hoppers.