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Re: [BRHSlist] Industries on Spurs

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Industries on Spurs
From: KPMF16@a...
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:42:17 EST
Rick,

Some small towns at the end of branches served grain elevators. This would 
be quite common. A coal/lumber yard might also be common depending on the 
time frame. In some places you might have seen a coal tipple but this would 
usually require more tracks besides the 2 or 3 storage tracks. At an 
elevator at the end of a branch you'd normally have a run around track 
arrangement. That is a siding at the elevator with a switch at both ends. 
This would allow the inbound train of empties to shove in the elevator track 
motor first. They'd shove the loads ahead until the whole inbound consist 
was on the elevator track. They could stop and uncouple the inbound cars and 
then shove the loads and engine beyond the far switch. This being completed, 
and with both switches lined for the main the engine could reverse and pull 
back it's outbound loads until clear of the switch they entered on arrival. 
They'd then through the switch for the elevator track, back in, couple onto 
the waycar, and leave. This would only require two tracks. Without a switch 
at the far end they'd have to rely on gravity to get cars into or out of the 
siding depending on how the spur was graded.

Ken Thompson

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