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One of my customers provided me with a Walthers HO scale kit of a Hulett Loader that he would like constructed in O scale.

I started by looking at all the parts and then thinking I should pack the box back up and walk away. The amount of parts is staggering.

I looked at it again and figured I will just take it a small section at a time.

In this case I will use the kit directions , the individual pieces and the picture on the box to construct the model.

I decided the best way to construct the model was using styrene. There is a wide selection of sheets, structural members, handrails and strips in this material.

I started with the main support structure. In the pictures you can see the HO piece and the O Scale piece at twice the size.

Progress will be slow on this one but I am sure I will get through it.

 

Alan Graziano

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All I can say is Wow......... that would be really something in O scale. This would be the ultimate operating accessory.

 

 I saw these beasts up close and personal in 1978. Took me a while to figure out where the operator actually was. As one quote says, "riding a dinosaur's head while it is feeding".

All the Cleveland , OH Huletts are scrapped now, save for the remains of one lying in the grass awaiting a restorer. I think there are one or two smaller ones left in Conneaut, OH. I will be following your progress with interest.

Check out the video, including the narrow gauge trolley lokeys pushing the cars around.

 

 

All I can say is Wow......... that would be really something in O scale. This would be the ultimate operating accessory.

A friend of mine has built 2 of these in HO both being fully operational with multiple micro-motors, relays, etc. So, building an operational one in O scale should be quite doable.

 

Also, some years ago some company was taking orders for these in brass; no idea if they were ever produced though.

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All I can say is Wow......... that would be really something in O scale. This would be the ultimate operating accessory.

A friend of mine has built 2 of these in HO both being fully operational with multiple micro-motors, relays, etc. So, building an operational one in O scale should be quite doable.

 

Also, some years ago some company was taking orders for these in brass; no idea if they were ever produced though.


       

I believe they were $5000 each with half for the model and half as a "donation" to whichever preservation society was doing the model.  I might still have the link on my computer.  I'll check around when I get home.

They truly are amazing machines.  I grew up around loaders and unloaders in Toledo.

Jim

Chuck Sword at dhs diecast in Berea had a sample. Not sure if that was the only one. Last I heard it was not going to make it, although I wrote a check for my son's next to last term in Mechanical Engineering school and thought, there goes three Huletts. They were quoted at $5500 to me. I never heard the $5000 figure. 

Here's a picture of the one he had. Not a very good picture but then I didn't have a very good phone back then.

By the way, somebody said there was one disassembled Hulett on the southwest corner of whiskey Island. I'm not sure but was always told there were two there. Go on Google Earth and go back to the 6/29/07 satellite shot and it sure looks like two. 

 

Charlie

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Wiki says: There was one in New York City to unload garbage.   Another twist on this interesting machine.  Worked best on the lakes (Great Lakes, Erie had the most) with limited tidal effect. 

(75)  were built.

Electrically operated.  Each bucket was 10 tons of ore.  

Operated into the 1990's, Ore carriers are now self-unloading. 

Two remain, in pieces, Cleveland, plans are uncertain.  

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It sure has been a while since I posted progress pictures for this structure. I had a lot of other things going on and I was just bale to start on this project again. Here  pictures of the wheels and frame support. The wheels were a real challenge for me but after some time I figured them out. The ore hopper and Larry car are painted and in the background.

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It has been a while since I have worked on this project. Now, I want to stay on it and complete it a s soon as possible. Here are some pictures of the completed track structure for the loader. I have to add a few platforms. I will then start to work on the actual loader. I plan to paint the structure black except for the trucks.

 

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