Slot Train, Loading a Railroad Car and Locomotive Remote Control-Texas Crushed Stone
Jay Pat
Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA
I didn't think to ask....
Could have been a clamshell bucket/skidsteer/man with a shovel would be my guess. A small skidsteer may have been able to turn sideways in the car or push material through or push up material for clamshell bucket.
Pat
Jay Pat wrote:
I didn't think to ask....
Could have been a clamshell bucket/skidsteer/man with a shovel would be my guess. A small skidsteer may have been able to turn sideways in the car or push material through or push up material for clamshell bucket.
Pat
Thank you Jay Pat. The loading arrangement seems quite efficient which made me wonder about what was in place for unloading. Whilst the slot car arrangement seems to provide additional payload capacity it may not be the most suitable arrangement for unloading. Food for thought.
I wonder how many fatalities from the remote control locomotives? I retired from U.S.Steel Iron Producing.
I know first hand about train accidents.
Jay Pat
Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA
When I drove a truck to load in the operation. I never heard of a fatality.
When there was a lot more train traffic in the pit, there were truck/train accidents from trucks not yielding to trains. There were all slow speed accidents. The trucks did not fair well.......
Pat
I agree with what you said there. U.S.Steel drug tested all accidents when I was there. I worked on Electronics,
then went into Instrumentation on a blast furnace for 30 years. I had a foreman ran over by a train. He didn't
follow rules by r/c locomotives. He died on my cousin's birthday no less.
Jay Pat
Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA
Sorry to here about his death....
Thank you, it has been a long time since it happened. We have always been told to keep a distance and obey the signs. I am retired as of last year. Bought a Nikon D.S.L.R. 3500 and joined the group.
rehess
Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA
Plieku69 wrote:
How many cars make up the slot? I am familiar with the tri pack for containers, never seen anything longer.
Ken
The first diesel passenger trains on the Burlington were entirely "articulated" - but that meant only a few cars.
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