UPDATE: 6-9-14..The latest project...a power station complex with working rotary coal dump!!

Alan like your coal loadout and rotary dump and power plant very nice.  

Wow, looks amazing!!

 

- Mike

Very nice.

Gosh Alan, you have so much detail and activity. Beautiful job.

After reading what it took to make room for just moving the display case, calls for a  

 

Seriously, it is a interesting addition to the railroad and gives purpose for the long coal drags -- a favorite freight consist of mine.

Alan, I love it. I am building a very similar setup on my layout except my pewor plant will be on the other side of the tracks for the coal dumper. Love what you've done to the Korber power plant. Im going to use some of those ideas on mine

Alan, as always your layout never ceases to amaze me. Great job.

that is a very cool power plant!  I love not just the coal unloader, but the plant itself.  Nicely done.  I hope that crane operator, right next to the substation, is careful, or he is toast!

Alan, as always, nicely done. Now I know that we will have to come down and make sure that this passes the OSHA/Arkansas standards.

 

Please keep posting more pictures as you progress.

Alan wrote ~excerpts~:

 

“Just behind it was an 8 foot tall display cabinet that blocked the view. . . First, I moved the display case downstairs and it fit nicely in its new place.”

 

This was an excellent move! I can visualize how well the power station must look from the entrance area.

 

“ . . . I then was able to incorporate and install my Lionel rotary coal dump into the coaling area.”

 

I didn’t know you had one of the rotary tipples! I always wanted one myself, so I would have tried to buy it from you. (Not saying that I would have been successful . . .)

 

Great project and coming along fine, Alan – I can hardly wait to see the rotary coal tipple in operation.

 

Alex

Alan, You pack a lot of punch in your layout!!!  Very nice.  I particularly like the way you incorporated the Lionel 456 Coal ramp with coal hoppers.  The Postwar and modern equipment merge very well together.

 

Love the scene, where did you get the transformers from?

Dan

Alan,

 

Fabulous scene, I also see a lot of beautiful items in the background. For instance, the clocks on the wall, and the awesome wall of trains.  Everything in your train room including the layout is Absolutely beautiful

 

Thanks,

Alex

Very nice addition to a great layout. Just keeps getting better.

Well done.  Awesome industrial area.  I like that you have several Lionel operating accessories included in the scene.

Allen, that is a very nice scene. Looks very industrial and busy...like the real thing.

Good scene

 

 

Alan - That is a very nice addition to your power plant scene.  I love the busy, congested, gritty look of the overall complex.  I think you did a great job of incorporating the old original Lionel coal ramp in the scene, but I think it does slightly detract from the overall realism.  That's not a bad thing, just an observation from a person always striving for as much realism as I can achieve.  Very nice job!

 

Art 

Great job Alan. 

Thanks so much everyone!!...

 

Matt...you are welcome to use any of my ideas...but I'll bet you will improve upon them!

 

Lee...the crane is riding on rubber tires...

 

Roger...it IS time for you guys to come down some weekend...and by the way, it wouldn't take much to pass "Arkansas standards"...LOL!!

 

Alex...you would not have been able to purchase the rotary coal unloader from me because I didn't get it until this past York!!  I found it in the Purple Hall...the only one I saw.

 

Dan...the gray transformers are K-Line.  The green ones I made myself from plumbing supplies, ceramic beads, and wire pins.  The large green one is an electrical component that had to be changed from my outside air unit...!!

 

Art...I am in agreement with you...  As I said above in my original post, I am not sure about the ramp.  However, when I have Googled images, there are plenty of ramps that are similar especially several decades ago....so I may do a little painting and modifying and keep it in the scene.  I think the oil derrick is going to go...

 

Thanks!

Alan

 

 

Spectacular!

 

Peter

You did an A#1 job on that scene.  That addition and action accessory blends in perfect with your layout......a super layout at that.  With all your success with OGR how do you find the time to do projects like this.  I guess I'm just envious.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

c. Chancey makes an excellent point about making a video showing the rotary dumper in operation.

 

Art

Thanks again guys!

 

Steve...I function on about 5 or 6 hours of sleep so I work on these projects usually in the evenings.

 

Carl and Art...I like the idea of a video but have not been able to take or post one satisfactorily at this point.  I have a video camera that is supposed to download directly to Youtube with its special software but I need to figure out how to do so...been saying this for about a year or so now!!..LOL!!

 

Thanks,

Alan

Really nice scene, Alan!

Very nice implementation of a classic, modern-day Lionel accessory.  Complements the power plant perfectly.  

 

David

WOW!  Really cool scenes Alan.

 

Thanks for sharing.

That's sick...just sick...In a good way...lol

Great looking scene!

-- Greg

Alan where is the coal ash pond?

 

Alan

Looks Great !!

Didn't I just read somewhere that our RRs should have a purpose?

Very nice!

Our railroads do have a purpose, our own personal enjoyment and the enjoyment of the people in out lives. and  consumption of our free time, and money

 

I posted a few more pictures over on the weekend photo fun thread..... you may like to take a peek.

 

Thanks,

Alan

I have much of that equipment...but not the square footage...so it's mostly

in boxes. And I grew up seeing that stuff - my father worked for a power company,

at a generating plant, with coal everywhere.

I'm jealous - a bigger house, maybe? How much could that cost, really?

 

Looks great; I like the mixture of PW-style and Hi-Railing.

 

Alan,

 

I think you need to find a bigger Church!

 

Great lookng power statation and coal facility.

 

Richard

Alan,

 

Your scene is very well done indeed.  I especially like the way you incorporated everything into a relatively small space. I wish I had that talent but it never quite works out.  

 

I am a big fan of incorporating modern and PW accessories. 

 

Nicely done and I hope you can manage a video as others have mentioned already.

 

Thanks,

Ed

Alan

 

nice combination of fossil fuels both coal  and  oil.

 

if the power plant runs out of coal or the price is too high, it can switch over to crude.

 

like that you didn't submerge the rotary dumper but rather raised up the coaling ramp. 

Alan....I also got around to fixing the bridge supports in the harbor area which you and I agreed didn't come off too well within the scene.  I will be posting photos soon...

 

Alan

Alan, The new coal operations look great. Just like the 1 to 1 scale boys it takes a lot of work and time to get the location cleaned up so you can build new. Thanks for keeping the electric power on in Arkansas. .

 

When did Arkansas have standards ?

Alan

 

The rotary dumper has some really nice structural elements that are lost if submerged below the table, just to get it even with table tracks.

 

Great chop work on the Korber Power station; if it doesn't fit slice it up rearrange its pieces until it does!