Coal operations

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Hi,
Thanks so much for the info.  That is about what I am doing.  From time to
time i bring a few other things to the tipples, just no tall the time.   I
have not put in a animal area, but they were all over the place.  I also
have one of those really loud BLI N&W stock cars.....its funny to listen to
it with kids around.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:36 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> David,
>
> Attended a clinic (don't remember if it was a C&O or an N&W function)about
> what traffic you could see at a coal mine besides coal cars.  Mines would
> use machinery, oil for that machinery, timber, tools, etc.  Some box cars
> and a few tank cars would not be inappropriate.  And on some branch lines
> there was some minimal passenger service that served as "commuter service"
> for the miners.  Don't know for sure, but it sounds like you're in a later
> period than would support animals (horses or mules?)around the mines.  And
> if your "real" location was served by another road besides N&W, you have
> more possibilities.
>
> Frank Bongiovanni
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:35 AM NW Modeling List <
> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have a small branch line (proto freelance), about 12*12.  The stuff on
>> the layout is n&w design and used in real locations.  However, the coal
>> mines need to be very abbreviated.  I have one "real" tipple that is from
>> the clinch some where.
>>
>> It's an around the walls with a center pennensula after a lance Mindheim
>> design.  My space is not 100 percent the same so it's modified.
>>
>> In general the layout runs by having coal or coal/empties.  I run around
>> swapping the loads for mty.  Then I sort the coal by size.  I was very
>> careful about including the nearby town with a combo station.  I also made
>> sure to have another large industry besides coal for interest.  A wood
>> finishing Mill, gives an excuse for a box car.  Right now I have a pickle
>> salting place, but I have not but the mill yet ... Looking for pics of one.
>>
>> The mix keeps it fun.  I run to shifters, one passenger, one freight.  Or
>> I combine the two into a mixed for fun.  One shifter goes out.  The am
>> passenger goes, then the shifter goes back.  Then the passenger returns.
>> Then I do the pm shifter and mixed.  My layout has a nice passing siding at
>> a branch junction.  I use signals, but that is because I love them and
>> enjoy making CTC stuff.  I use flagging instructions like on the tug fork
>> article.
>>
>> So the whole point is my layout fills up a small outer yard for a large
>> branch line.  We keep the coal moving.
>>
>> I change the year by changing out the locos and passenger (get rid of if
>> 1959).  So you can see M,E,Z or Y6 depending on the day.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 6:59 AM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
>> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have a coal operating layout that does more than haul coal
>>> drags?  I try to envision running mine runs with a group of people and I
>>> can come up with only one person pulling a train of empties up the branch.
>>> I don’t have room for more than one branch. So I’m the one person but I
>>> want to have people over to share the fun.
>>> Some do a great job of hauling coal but I think there may be
>>> compromises on pure N&W described in books and these lists with the desire
>>> to have friends over. Modelling is full of compromises, of course.
>>> How have others modeled coal mining operations? ie picking up loads and
>>> dropping empties...etc
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Mike Shockley
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