Calcifer 1 is a kit from Walthers. The turntable is Peco. The dumper is part of a 30-year-old kit from State Street Models. The animation mechanisms and everything else are scratch built.

Thx. CSX 9024 is Kato's model of a GE C44-9W, aka a Dash 9. More info on the model and the prototype is here: www.spookshow.net/loco/kato44.html

The up-and-over dumper is bashed from a kit that is long out of production. cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/264087/2980912.aspx The big mine is from a kit, readily available. www.amazon.com/Walthers-Inc-River-Mining-Company/dp/B000VZEYBU Everything else is built from scratch. The loader with the spring auger was the easiest to mechanize.

Thanks! The loco is at it's limit pulling loads uphill out of Calcifer 1. One more hopper causes it to slip in place.

I didn't take any more videos during the build. Is there anything in particular that you are looking for?

@@kevinguthrie5495 im a newbie but did you just modify a coal layout or build everything either way where did you get the electronics like the motors and maybe an augur also??

@@TiredDodMedia I built the whole layout from benchwork to trees. The auger spring is from the little drawers section of my local hardware store. The key is it has to fit very loosely in the polystyrene tube or things will jam. It happened to fit on the motor shaft very nicely. Gear motors are available on amazon and from places like servo city and pololu. I generally use 6 or 12v motors as the power supplies are easy to find. The lower voltage ones that run on batteries are annoyingly noisy. I think I got the foot switch on amazon. If you need to slow a motor down, the cheap pwm speed controllers on amazon work great.

I'm not aware of any on the market, you have to DIY.

Thanks! I sure enjoyed building it.

Thanks! The layout has one level but the tracks against the wall are higher, 5' 4" from the floor. The width varies from 2' to much bigger. There is a helix in one corner and I can access track from it's center. There the edge of the layout is 5 or 6 feet from the corner of the room.

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The flood loader is scratch built from styrene and powered by a Tortoise. Made everything adjustable via the threaded rod and the square tubing that telescopes so the bins can move up or down. The silo is a scotch bottle container with a hacked funnel glued inside. The key is the "valves"; designs that have close-fitting parts jam. Another video may show them better: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6vQc4RqdtiSo8U

@@kevinguthrie5495 Sorry im a bit late on the response, but thanks alot! I plan into looking further into this style of model railroading!

I've settled on Woodland Scenics fine cinder ballast which as I understand it is walnut shells. I've tried real anthracite (black lung risk) and black art sand used for sand painting. The sand is heavy and had particles that a magnet picked up.

Most of the cars are connected by drawbars, two MTL trucks with couplers replaced by fishing swivels, orthodontic rubber bands, or orthodontic power chain. True rotaries are old trucks with Rapido-style couplers removed, carved up Fox Valley knuckles and a bit of Plastruct square stock, the kind with a hole in it. Hopefully this link works for you: www.nscale.net/forums/album.php?albumid=1658

Thanks for the info!!

Fun is relative. Frustrating, lots of back to the drawing boards, but full of fun problem solving puzzles.