My K&P coal breaker update

Looks really nice. Is it modeled after a prototype?

Don

Chip,

Beautiful job.  I have one sitting in the box for a year now but can't find the time to get started.  I congratulate you on starting and finishing.

John

That's a nice alternative to the B.T.S. coal mines. I'm getting ready to start designing and building the mountain and I intend to have some kind of coal facility coming out of it. I've been eyeing the Cabin Creek kit, but it's pricy so I may or may not go that route. The K-P is another possibility... Hmmmm.

I built this kit also, it was my first kit to do. The instructions were great and I found that it was easy to put together.

But your structure puts mine to shame. I do wish that I would have put a lot more lights in and on it as you did.

You did one awesome job.

Mike CT, that slide show was great.  Thank you.  A great build and photography. 

Chip,

that is an excellent job on your breaker!!  It will look great on the layout!!

It I s interesting how in anthracite country they are called breakers and here in bituminous country they are called tipples.  I have read discussions on that before but never saw a definitive difference.  Can anyone tell me any difference in the process.  I am wondering since anthracite is harder than bituminous.

MArk,

We have tipples here in anthracite country too. The one I saw in Scranton almost looked like the approach to the top of the first hill on a roller coaster. The loaded car would go up the track and then dump the coal at the top. I'm not sure what happened to the coal from that point. Some research is in order here.

Don

Thanks. I'm not sure if the kit is or not.

This might help some:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_breaker

Hi Chip

The k&p mine looks great. I had built one to. Here a pic.

Thanks. i have to do the mine head next. I really like what you did with yours !

Good Information.  I was on the right track!  Thank you!

I have one that I bought all ready built in a collection of building that I got , I did build one but use the building for something else not a breaker .

Guy

That's great Don.  Thank you.  Yes, I don't know the particulars of what goes on inside, but they are cool structures.

Breaker may refer to the Anthracite coal, which probably was in larger rocks/harder than bituminous and needed to be reduced to a useable size.  Most mining machinery today would do this.  There was also a conveyor table where material was hand picked from the coal and removed.  The coal processing done at the Champion facility, on the Montour Railroad, washed the coal.  I assume the processing costs were absorbed in a better grade of coal.

Mike,

And that is where they get the term breaker.  Breaking the big hard coal into smaller coal.  That is what I didn't know if bituminous needed some much breaking as it needs cleaning.  Thank you for your input!!

Back in the day RMC published a two part article on kitbashing a hillside mine tipple in HO, similar to the BTS kit tipple:

The hill side, not in the kit, takes some time. BTS did the second kit without the hillside, may be for that reason. 

I just ordered those two issues. I never knew about Railpub. It seems like a great resource. I hope those two issues will give me what I need.

I saw this building at York many years ago and immediately said that we had to put one on our club layout. We built it into the side of a mountain