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Quinnimont Truck Mine Tipple Drawings 1949
The drawings contained in this booklet were prepared by C&O Historical Society member Russ Hass to guide modelers in building a typical truck mine facility on the C&O. Generally, coal mine tipples served a puirpose of not only dumping coal from the mine into railroad cars, but to “process” the coal before it was loaded. This meant that the larger tipples sorted the coal by size, washed it, and separated it from impurities before it was loaded. However, truck mine tipples were simply chutes allowing coal brought in from small mines that were not located on the railroad, to be dumped directly into cars. They had no preparation function at all. Small truck mines, such as the one at Quinnimont, seen in the 1947 photo on page 1, do make interesting prototypes for modeling, not only because of their quaint nature, but also because they are relatively small and can easily fit on almost any model railroad.
11 pgs.
Quinnimont Truck Mine Tipple Drawings 1949
The drawings contained in this booklet were prepared by C&O Historical Society member Russ Hass to guide modelers in building a typical truck mine facility on the C&O. Generally, coal mine tipples served a puirpose of not only dumping coal from the mine into railroad cars, but to “process” the coal before it was loaded. This meant that the larger tipples sorted the coal by size, washed it, and separated it from impurities before it was loaded. However, truck mine tipples were simply chutes allowing coal brought in from small mines that were not located on the railroad, to be dumped directly into cars. They had no preparation function at all. Small truck mines, such as the one at Quinnimont, seen in the 1947 photo on page 1, do make interesting prototypes for modeling, not only because of their quaint nature, but also because they are relatively small and can easily fit on almost any model railroad.
11 pgs.
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