01-13-2009, 02:40 AM
Last Update for the night lol
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I opted for 4 Bridge Cranes instead of 2 Bridge Cranes and 2 Hulett Unloaders, 1) because of the price of 2 Hulett Unloaders is outrageous lol and 2) i think this will work out better then having 2 of each, or even 4 Hulett Unloaders (again that would be an enormous amount of money for 4 of them lol)
For the Bridge Cranes, Instead of unloading barges and dropping the materials into stock piles, the materials will be dropped into waiting empty hopper cars. i Also set this up in a way that a train will have to be loaded up, connected into one long train, and then run all the way around the layout to get back the coke oven to unload. I will also have to add either a run around track somewhere on the layout to enable a train to back into the Coke Oven or just deal with the fact that a full train will not be able to be unloaded or back into the Coke Oven and instead just pull straight in and run up to the wall..... Haven't decided a good way to do this yet... Any suggestions for that this situation?
Red tracks are the mainline so far which will be a complete loop when finished
Obviously the blue represents water and the harbor where barges will be unloaded with the 4 bridge cranes..... 5 Tracks should be sufficient amount of tracks to load a full coal drag
Comments, Questions, Suggestions?
I opted for 4 Bridge Cranes instead of 2 Bridge Cranes and 2 Hulett Unloaders, 1) because of the price of 2 Hulett Unloaders is outrageous lol and 2) i think this will work out better then having 2 of each, or even 4 Hulett Unloaders (again that would be an enormous amount of money for 4 of them lol)
For the Bridge Cranes, Instead of unloading barges and dropping the materials into stock piles, the materials will be dropped into waiting empty hopper cars. i Also set this up in a way that a train will have to be loaded up, connected into one long train, and then run all the way around the layout to get back the coke oven to unload. I will also have to add either a run around track somewhere on the layout to enable a train to back into the Coke Oven or just deal with the fact that a full train will not be able to be unloaded or back into the Coke Oven and instead just pull straight in and run up to the wall..... Haven't decided a good way to do this yet... Any suggestions for that this situation?
Red tracks are the mainline so far which will be a complete loop when finished
Obviously the blue represents water and the harbor where barges will be unloaded with the 4 bridge cranes..... 5 Tracks should be sufficient amount of tracks to load a full coal drag
Comments, Questions, Suggestions?