I am having problems finding photos and drawings for a Coal delivery chute that could be found in most typical towns growing up when I was young kid. Can you please post pictures of Coal chutes you remember? I am trying to model a Large delivery coal chute with a cover house and trestle above. But cannot find pictures of the entire system.
The Weber - Bunke - Lange - coal company with the over head trestle and house is something I would like to emulate....
Thanks!
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I assume you mean chutes used to load trucks, rather than unload trucks into buyers' coal bins (which I remember being in common use a few 
years ago).
Near the East Broad Top RR main station, I seem to recall that there was/is such a facility.
I can remember seeing structures where hopper cars were on top and dumped into bins from which trucks could load to deliver to consumers, but darned if I can remember where.
The EBT may have been such a facility; maybe someone more familiar with EBT would know for sure.
Here's one that might help -
Thanks Gene-
Like the concrete structure too.
I am not sure what you are looking for, but the kitbuilder in W. Va. who has offered a large coal mine tipple, and logging sawmill, offeres a commercial coal structure, the guy in York, Pa. has offered a commercial coal dealer tower, which I kitbashed by making it do double duty to served locos and coal sales by adding a track ramp up and enclosed car shed (like a covered bridge), and somebody offered a kit of the trackside coal facility at Cobleskill, N.Y. And there is another one, all in O scale. And you might search HO structure kits on the bay, to see what they have offered in commercial coal structures. That would require a scratch build, but they might have something interesting you can copy.
Thanks for the leads. I am going to scratch build a structure so wanted pictures of Coal yard storage facilities that anyone has seen or remembered.
An easy to model coal facility would use an old two bay hopper car elevated on concrete piers as storage bins so trucks could load from underneath. The bins could be loaded from overhead by trucks or conveyors.
Often times I search out HO structures looking for ideas. I found this prototype that will probably need some compression for O Scale but it does feature the enclosed hopper track. Some construction photos are shown on the site as well as the history of the structure.
Go to. www.lasermodeling3.com Search for the John Murray & Sons Coal Dealership
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