My Homemade Coal Mine and Coal Loading Station Operating Accessory
A Bachmann Coal Station was used to make a Coal Mine and Coal Loading Station Operating Accessory. The kit was used to make the Coal Mine Entrance into the underground mine in the mountain.
A new “A” frame roof was built for the top out of 1/8 inch Masonite with a window in the end and the end was scored to be vertical siding. The roof was roofed with some of the kit roofing.
The Coal Loading Section was made of Masonite.
This picture also shows the slide valve closed (hole in slide gate is not under the funnel hole and the solid part of the slide gate is blocking the funnel hole) and the solenoid arm is holding the slide gate closed.
Picture showing lights inside to light windows and cut through bottom to light coal car area below. Valve below funnel is open here.
The picture is from the outside of coal mine loading station showing the lights working for inside the building and lighting the car below
Like most active accessories, the coal mine/coal loader should be located for easy hand access by the operator. The coal must be hand loaded into the funnel and the slide gate valve must be hand closed. Lionel plastic coal is used which came with a Lionel coal dumping car from the 1980s.
This was a fun project, especially figuring out a working coal car loading system.
More pictures on the Attachment Images below and construction details on page 2, post 15 on OGR topic link below.
