Post 40 8/20/2017
Popular Trains Run on the Layout - Operating Car Train (3nd Post, Barrel Car Loader)
Operating Car Train Lionel Barrel 3556 Unloading Car and the Lionel 362 Barrel Loader
Another car on the Operating Car Train is the Lionel Barrel 3556 Unloading Car. This car uses a vibrator motor to transport wooden barrels up and off the car. The barrels can discharged into a Lionel black plastic tray used for logs or on to a platform you can make.
Picture shows Lionel Barrel 3556 Unloading car discharging Barrels
The best option is to procure a Lionel 362 Barrel Loader.
The Lionel Barrel Loader 362 is a long vibrating ramp that will load the barrels into the Lionel Barrel 3556 Unloading Car. My Barrel Loader 362 came as a Junker ramp and vibration motor without the base. I got to make a base from wood in just the size I needed for my location near the main board control panel. I made the ramp discharge piece from plastic from plastic gutter piece and ramp feed section from aluminum sheet from flashing. I have yet to make the fencing around the ramp. The Barrel Loader is not anchored down to allow moving as necessary to adjust the distance to the track and cars.
What makes this car and accessory combination more fun is the fact one can load barrels on to the car and then unload the car back onto the barrel loader ramp. The use of a second barrel unloading car on a second different train makes for lots of realist operation.
Barrel Loader Operator- my guy is not the 2 inch high man like the original but larger than the little Barrel Car man
Charlie
