Hey, I just wanted to start a thread to have a place for everybody to share their pictures of coal mines and other types of mines that they have on their layouts. Feel free to share anything… a trackplan, under-construction pics, good pics of someone else’s layouts.
So thats it. Lets see 'em!
Greg:
Gold mines out here in the Wild West. The major mine is the Champion, which I adapted from a Walther’s coal mining kit (but the building is similar to some of the major mine groups out here in California, including the long-gone Champion mine in Nevada City). On my Yuba River Sub, the Champion is situated in South Yuba Canyon, just out of Nevada City.
This is the original shaft, kit-bashed from a Grandt Line kit:
The main shaft and crushing bins, from a Walther’s kit:
The ore tailings trestle from the first crushing:
And the Kentucky mine at Sierra City at the foot of the Sierra Buttes. This is another Grandt-Line kit that is actually based on the Kentucky Mine.
Tom [:)]
Here’s the Gibson Works Mining & Milling Division of GERN Industries in Port Maitland. The buildings in the photo are the “milling” part, while the “mining” part goes on under Lake Erie, on the opposite side of the plant. Most of the processed GERN Brand Flux goes out on lake boats, but the plant is still the largest shipper, by volume, on the Erie Northshore line.
Wayne
Foliage and groundcover is still needed, but this was the first revenue run to Vulcan Coal Mine #2 on my Winneshiek & Western Railroad. This is a scratchbuilt structure, with the scale 12" x 12" supports under the tipple cut from basswood planks that came from a tree on my Dad’s property up in Minnesota 20+ years ago. The inspiration for the mine is the Stonega Company’s Roda Colliery tipples on the interstate RR northwest of Appalachia, VA. The powerhouse (to run the shaker-grates in the tipple) is from an old Model Masterpieces kit (I think). Narrow-gauge mine cars from the tipple are pulled by mule to the powerhouse above that retaining wall. There is a just-completed foundry on the other side of the backdrop, so I can have “empties in and loads out” of this mine all day long.
Bill
Really nice work.
wow thanks guys, thats some great work there.
Here’s what I’ve got: A hybrid - a Walthers flood loader combined with a few sections of a New River mine.
Here’s the largest on the railroad:
Dale Latham
Piedmont Southern Railroad
Nice to see that area again, Dale. That’s really a great-looking scene. [:)]
Wayne
Dude! Sweet! I hereby declare that you need to post more pictures of your layout. At least of the smaller mines!
Here are the two mines on my Oakhurst Railroad …
IMO, the less my mine struts, the better. It’s in rough enough shape as it is without wandering all over the layout [;)]
