Barrel loader setup with fastrack

It doesn't sound like a fastrack issue.  It sounds like you are missing the loading clip that attaches to the bottom end of the loader ramp and takes up the gap between the car and ramp.  It a black metal clip.  If you just search on you tube for lionel barrel loader there are some videos with pictures of the black clip.  

I must be blind as I am not seeing it in the videos.  My problem is I am trying to close the gap between the end of the barrel car where the little man is on the car and the loading platform
Of the barrel loader.  FasTrack prevents me from getting close to the loading platform on the barrel loader.

Notching the offending track piece may work

 

EDIT:Try this thread: https://ogrforum.com/t...-362-track-setup-rse

The car unloads the barrels into a tray. The loader has a gate that drops down that acts as a ramp to load the barrels.

 

There is a culvert unloader & culvert loaderaccessory. There is no barrel unloader

You need the black extension piece in picture.

 

Art 

I have fastrack with the barrel loader and you do not need to cut or do anything besides take off the one removable side of the fastrack operating track.  You are trying to get the loader right up against the car and that is incorrect.  As Art shows above in his post you are missing the black metal loading clip that takes up the space between the barrel car and loader.  It clips right on the edge of the bottom of the yellow ramp.  Whether its the postwar or LLC version of the loader, the clip is the same.  You should be able to pick one up online.

I see now. The Gondola was the original and had to be hand loaded. The 3564 barrel car was introduced in 1954 and remade. The ramp clip came with the car to allow unloading onto the barrel loader platform. It was attached to the platform.

 

the part number is 3562-48. Try Only3rail or Brasseur's.

 

 

I installed TMCC on my barrel car, and I just hacked the Fastrack base to get it close enough since I don't need an operating track.

The photos above show the gap I am talking about.  Will the metal clip extend out far enough to fill the gap between the barrel car and the barrel loader?  

Yes the clip will bridge the gap far enough so the barrel will roll across.

I made my own "clip" or extension piece out of sheet styrene and painted it.

Glued 2 strips to the back for a channel to fit over the lip and 2 small pieces for sides onto the flat piece of styrene.

 

Mort

Thanks everyone for your replies.  Dana

Brasseurs has the Barrel Ramp Extension Clip for  $3.00 + shipping.  3562-048

 

They were $.15 in 1960, but you had to buy 4.

Thanks!  I did order one.  Dana

Thanks!  I did order one.  Dana