COVHOPs/BRT Whisky Grain Hoppers: how were they filled?

[russ p]

6 minutes ago, spamcan61 said:

Nice one, they look really impressive: being 'HO' I'd never taken much notice of the Walthers kits, but having seen them used on OO layouts in both HM and BRM in recent times I've had a bit of a browse of what's available and there's some really impressive, and good value, buildings there. As discussed recently here, HO buildings can look more 'to scale' than OO ones on layouts, particularly when it comes to big structures.

 

I assume this is the grain elevator you used above, with added ship loading facility?

 

https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/walthers-cornerstone-wh933-3022.html

 

 

 

That's the one. The ship loading facility is just plastistruct sections and wills sheet inspired by a more vintage one at Wells 

[doilum]

11 hours ago, GraemeWatson said:

To further expand about the prototypical nature of the Bachmann Scenecraft 44-185 Grain Loading Hoppers, the box art on the back of the product shows two such hoppers in use for loading COVHOP wagons, evidently not the Whisky type.

With this is mind, does anyone know of a prototype that this is therefore based upon by Bachmann?

I am not a structural engineer, but those legs look impossibly skinny.

Thinking about rapid loading, the colliery bunkers used to fill the MGRs were massive concrete structures.

[Johann Marsbar]

This was one of the overhead loading areas (For ships as well as rail and road traffic) at Pauls Maltings in Ipswich, seen in 1981.  By that time, the remaining rail traffic had swapped to vans.

 

[giz]

12 minutes ago, Johann Marsbar said:

This was one of the overhead loading areas (For ships as well as rail and road traffic) at Pauls Maltings in Ipswich, seen in 1981.  By that time, the remaining rail traffic had swapped to vans.

 

That takes me back, I had a summer job there in 1977 testing barley in the lab for pre-germination

[Wickham Green too]

2 hours ago, doilum said:

I am not a structural engineer, but those legs look impossibly skinny. ...

They look like lightweight temporary hoppers - probably easy to dismantle for road transport.

[Fat Controller]

The hoppers used to load MGR coal trains would probably hold a thousand or more tonnes per bunker. Closer to the Bachmann model is this structure at BIS Oakamoor:-

https://www.nsrailway.co.uk/photos/oakamoor-sand-sidings.html

[Mark Saunders]

1 hour ago, Fat Controller said:

The hoppers used to load MGR coal trains would probably hold a thousand or more tonnes per bunker. Closer to the Bachmann model is this structure at BIS Oakamoor:-

https://www.nsrailway.co.uk/photos/oakamoor-sand-sidings.html

The bunker at Butterwell was only for about 450 tons enough to fill a a set of ordinaries!

[LNERGE]

I have one of these..

 

https://scalescenes.com/product/t037-low-relief-grain-silo/

 

I think it came in a Hornby Magazine?

Very much like the grain facility at Sandy. sort of..

 

 

Edit to add… and this is simply perfect…

 

https://www.shapeways.com/product/K8GPY2Q2V/4mm-british-rail-shunting-tractor

 

Edited November 9, 2022 by LNERGE

[hmrspaul]

The Sandy shunting tractor https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/road/eb495180

 

Paul

[doilum]

10 hours ago, LNERGE said:

I have one of these..

 

https://scalescenes.com/product/t037-low-relief-grain-silo/

 

I think it came in a Hornby Magazine?

Very much like the grain facility at Sandy. sort of..

 

 

Edit to add… and this is simply perfect…

 

https://www.shapeways.com/product/K8GPY2Q2V/4mm-british-rail-shunting-tractor

 

Excellent photo. The maltkiln I used to.work at now have something similar. But no skinny legs......