Duncan,
I called my father-in-law during lunch he thought the truck was a Dodge, the
coupler was in the rear end. They would use it to move cars on the corn tracks.
The railroad switched the plant twice a day. They also shipped covered hoppers
with corn meal.
Lenny
Let me know if you receive this because I'm sending it from the office.
Lenny
>Duncan,
>Have a 1969 track arrangement at Keokuk if you need one. Let me know.
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>Don't think any industry would expect the RR to move individual cars.
>Also would have no desire to pay for an Intra Plant Switch.
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>So how do they move their cars? Could have the track graded so the
>cars move by gravity. Just a matter of hand brakes then.
>Or, a rope on a capstan was fairly common although they claim a lot of
>fingers. A cable system with an underground motor is the next step up.
>Then you move up to an end loader, a farm tractor, or small cat.
>Trackmobiles are all over the place but are expensive and can only do
>one thing. Also just about worthless in snow.
>
>All in all the end loader is probably the best solution. There is a lot to
>clean up when unloading grain, especially from box cars, and the loader
>can do both jobs.
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>There are plenty of elevators that load unit grain trains with cars on 3 or
4
>tracks and no locomotive. Just keep pulling or pushing them around
>with that end loader until they're done.
>
>Russ
>>
>> Another general question -- with a large plant like this which received
>> strings of cars, would the switch engine have to return to the plant each
>> time a car was finished being loaded (or emptied) and push the string of
>> cars along so the next one could be attended to? I don't see evidence of
>> facilities to load (or empty) more than a car at a time. Or, does someone
>> remember an engine being assigned to Hubinger most of the time?
>>
>> Thanks as always.
>> Duncan
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