Speaking of coal towers, if anyone knows the type and
sizes of the Q coaling and watering faciliies at
Nebraska City (photos, plans preferred) please let us
know. This is a future modeling project, in 1:1
scale, at the original site.
--- Randy Gordon-Gilmore <zephyrus@r...>
wrote:
> 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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