At 11:37 PM 4/5/02 -0800, Ken Martin wrote:
>tender holds 9 tons of coal. So a 40 ton tower could fill 3 O-1's or 4.4
>K-4's before it would need to be refilled, if you assume the engines
Thanks for the education, Ken. A K-4 is indeed what I'd be
considering--how did you guess? :-) (They "haven't" put a motorcar on the
branch yet, at least in my fictional world) so the 40-ton sounds about
right for what I want. The K-4 will be my first attempt at scratchbuilding
a loco.
Someday I'll do Ashland, which had an enormous coaling tower and a pretty
neat yard with immediately surrounding industries (oil distributors, grain
elevators, stock pens) and lots of main and branch traffic, but not quite
yet! Gotta walk before I can run...
Best regards,
Randy
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