McMyler Coal Dumper

A really great Modeler……….

I just watched that video and was in awe of it not living in a coal mining area. I would love to have that on my train set. It’s my first set and was given to me for Christmas last year, so I am only a beginner, tho I’ve loved trains all my live. I have Lionel 027 and my daughter is helping me enlarge the setting. I am 80 years old and have many physical setbacks so the train set my thrill.

Great loved it , best thing I have seen, since Rod Stewarts trainset layout some years ago.

sure is neat and would be fun to have it on a set up.

I enjoyed this video very much

absolutely the most beautiful set up i’ve ever seen. i would love to have a setup that did something like that. i dont have room for a layout right now but i have loved trains all my life and i want a layout really bad.

WOW! Awesome! How do I get one? Really great talent and modeling skills. I have so many questions!

I love this coal dumper. I am using a teeming shed with auto unloading through bottom doors in the trucks. The coal falls into a bin which feeds an armoured flight conveyor and chutes into the barges on the Tyne River. The track arrangements are exactly the same on the discharge side. I’d love some plans of the point work and levels to assist me.

Fantastic! Model making at its very best. I wish………..

What an impressive piece of model engineering. I now wonder if the barge sails away!!

Outstanding bit of scratchbuilding and automation!! It is not often that I am impressed these days but I am humbled by a true master. I would highly recommend you write a series of articles about how this was built and how it works for an on-line magazine like Model Railroad Hobbyist. I don’t think a paper zine could do this justice.

This is so cool and operates just like the real thing.

Now that is an awesome operation to watch and an asset to any coal era layout. Just wondering though, would you be able to build the opposite as in unloading from a barge to a hopper?

Dan,
I have used the track plan of the dumper setup but am working on an auto-emptying from the bottom of the trucks. The coalfalls into bin and is taken by a series of flight conveyors to the
elevator tower. It is then discharged by means of achute to the float screw driven barge in the Tyne River. These barges were 10 thousand ton capacity.
I think my arrangement will be easier to construct than MacMylar.
In answer to a previous comment : an auger could be used to upload a barge provided ithad a well bottom in the barge.
Ian

wow unbelievable detail thanks for sharing

I want one, where can I get one.
I am 10 years old, going on 60+ lol

Great stuff!

a very nicely made working model

You are to be congratulated on you skill and attention to detail. It is a wonderful and rewarding accomplishment.

greatttttttttttttttt–where can i get this piece, i’m just a begginer and this blows my mine

excellent setup would like to build one

wow this is great
Michael, Boston Ma.

That is awesome. I can not imagine the amount of work just calibrating the mechanism. Thanks for sharing.

A beautiful piece of engineering, as well as a beautiful piece of modelling. I really enjoyed watching the unloader in action. Hope to see more of this quality of modelling.

Absolutely very detailed and realistic !!. Well Done !!
Although I am a MARKLIN ( Germany) Fan, there are very good tips which i can use.

I have worked in a Steel Factory in Holland and see exactly the processing of Coal, you are modelling ! Spot-on !!! Many years ago the German Coal Industry worked also the same wayfor the Steel factories.

Congratulations again !!

Charles Braan.

Exellent , very realistic,

where do i get mine!!!!!!and does it come in o gauge?

What a great working model,there was one similar to that near where i live it was used to coal the fishing trawlers many years ago,got me thinking i would love to build one on my layout.

Excellent!

What a great mind this man has! Truely an inspuration to those that have a creative immagination. Anything in model railroading is possible.

Wow! Been thinking of doing something based on shipping coal from the West Coast of New Zealand to the Port of Lyttleton for export to Japan! Question though! Do they really run the empties down a ramp at high speed?