Two years ago I give an answer about the existence of a model of a Nscale rotary coal dumper on a post on this forum.
A kit has existed, made more than 40 years ago by well know Nscale modeler , Mister Rick Spano and offered under the name of “State Streets Models”.
This kit was reviewed in MR products at this time (if someone can find the date of this review it would be nice; I didn’t have the CD MR story).
This is a crude model made of pewter casting, details in white metal, some pieces of wood and styrene; this is a craftsman kit not really easy to build; it’s very heavy and with not a lot of details; I had receive this kit from my late father, a long time ago, I beleive something around 45 years ago!!! ( I’m now 58…my god!)
For some unknow reasons, I never build the kit.
I’m also in the way to construct a hight lift coal dumper in Nscale, there are some post on the forum about it.
All two years in Belgium there is a big train show, the next one come in autumn 2018 and I hope to show for the first time a module with the coal dumper.
Because the hight lift is in process and I must admit quiet difficult to do the delay is to short to include it on the future module, that’s the reason I come back with the State Street Model
The State Street Models will be build on a module to be exibited at some show; in future I will include the module in my Nscale Maclau River.
The module will incude a small local port and facility and of course the coal dumper, this port will be named “Port Elisabeth”.
My Maclau River is set in the begining of the forties, so steam was king like coal; the dumper will use steam to be operated like is real sisters of the time.
None such machine were build in reality in Europe except very little one for the coal mine service so I hope to have some sucess at these shows…
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