I have added a Flour Mill to my layout, with some grain bins.
When I am in the 1950's/60's: I kind of think of this youtube video (though it's in 1980):
I have a grain elevator on another section of my layout. I can imagine using boxcars to get the grain the the mill. I even have a boxcar that is labelled for "flour and cereal only" so I can imagine using boxcars to take away the milled grain. My question is, on the prototype, how would the grain get out of the boxcar into the storage grain bins?
When I am running things in the 1980's, I use covered hoppers like this to ship grain from the grain elevator to the flour mill:
I presume there is some kind of grate at track level and a below ground bin where the grain is dropped out of the hoppers. I'll try to model something like that so there are not ties or ballast at that location by the grain storage bins.
The information with the flour mill kit mentions that "airslide hoppers" are used to take the milled grain/flour away. I presume I can use the same hoppers to carry the milled product away. I also have some 2 bay covered hoppers that I can use, one is specifically a Lancaster and Chester hopper that looks like an actual airslide hopper, but I currently only have one of them, and I'd like to use the other hoppers, and some boxcars, too, to take milled grains to other consignees.
Any advice or comments would be welcome.
Cheers, Ted
When I am in the 1950's/60's: I kind of think of this youtube video (though it's in 1980):
I have a grain elevator on another section of my layout. I can imagine using boxcars to get the grain the the mill. I even have a boxcar that is labelled for "flour and cereal only" so I can imagine using boxcars to take away the milled grain. My question is, on the prototype, how would the grain get out of the boxcar into the storage grain bins?
When I am running things in the 1980's, I use covered hoppers like this to ship grain from the grain elevator to the flour mill:
I presume there is some kind of grate at track level and a below ground bin where the grain is dropped out of the hoppers. I'll try to model something like that so there are not ties or ballast at that location by the grain storage bins.
The information with the flour mill kit mentions that "airslide hoppers" are used to take the milled grain/flour away. I presume I can use the same hoppers to carry the milled product away. I also have some 2 bay covered hoppers that I can use, one is specifically a Lancaster and Chester hopper that looks like an actual airslide hopper, but I currently only have one of them, and I'd like to use the other hoppers, and some boxcars, too, to take milled grains to other consignees.
Any advice or comments would be welcome.
Cheers, Ted