Railcar Unloading Systems | Heyl & Patterson Equipment

When looking for the best in rail unloading equipment, look no further than Heyl & Patterson's Rotary Railcar Dumper. With high speed, semi-automatic dumping –- plus cycle times as fast as 35 seconds per car, and a dumping rate of 10,000 tons per hour in a tandem configuration – it's the ideal choice for dumping of rotary-coupled cars.

Rotary Dump or Bottom Dump Wagons? A Review of …

Bottom dump wagons and unloading of gondola cars with rotary car dumpers are the two main alternatives for unloading bulk materials from trains. In view of the trend toward …

Rotary Train Dumper System Unloading Coal at The Power Plant

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Rotary car dumper

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Coal Fired Power Stations

A good example of how we managed to provide ADS TM Dry Fog into a Power Plant Facility is the turn-over car dumper projects we have done in the past, we have addressed the issues of containment, operation in sub …

Repair technique extends rotary dumper life

In mid-1996, after 15 years and nearly 500,000 rotations to unload 50 million tons of coal, the Heyl & Patterson-manufactured rotary dumper at the Grand River Dam Authority`s (GRDA) two-unit ...

Springerville Generating Station Earns PRBCUG 2014 Honors

Units 1 and 2 burn coal sourced from the El Segundo Mine in northwest New Mexico. Coal is delivered by unit train and unloaded with a rotary car dump. The plant maintains seven separate coal piles ...

N Scale Rotary Coal Dumper

Walthers have offered a rotary dumper for thier Superior Paper Company(at least in HO). The kit was all plastic and could be made to operate with a great amount of work. Being plastic, I suspect the bearings/gears will wear out quite fast. If you are planning on doing a unit coal train, you will need working rotary couplers of course.

Rotary railcar dumpers and train positioners

more dumpers in service than any company worldwide. We design, supply, and install retrofits to dumpers of our own supply, and our competitors. We handle turnkey dumper barrel replacements, plus a listing of (28) twenty-eight design modifications for existing rotary railcar dumpers and positioners that improve reliability, maintainability, and

'This era is over:' PNM demolishes San Juan Generating Station

The Public Service Company of New Mexico demolished the San Juan Generating Station smokestacks, just northwest of Farmington, on Saturday morning.

Rotary Car dumper | TrainBoard

This leads me to my real question Walthers has a rotary dumper for HO scale (though a lil overpriced) but curious if anyone has done a N scale dumper. ... We have a similar ground level dumper at the local TEP coal-fired power plant here. If you need more info, email me directly at dondia@gateway eNjoy DB dbn160, Apr 17, …

Lionel 6-32910 Rotary Coal Dumper Tipple with Bathtub …

This is a Lio... This item has been graded per TCA standards C-7: Excellent based on visual appearance. There are a few spots of dirt residue and light handling marks on the body of this dumper. The rails show minimal wear. The car has a larger spot of paint that has flaked off. There is light wear on the wheels from previous use. This model has …

Railcar dumpers

Standard rotary railcar dumper makes handling a wide variety of materials a rapid, automated process. Multiple barrel dumper configurations dump 2, 3 or 4 railcars simultaneously to increase traditional unloading capacity. Rotary dumpers with bottom dump capability are available in two configurations: Simplified: dumps between rails

Scratchbuilt rotary dumper in HO (TMI and long) …

Once upon a time, long ago and far away, an impulse buy of a E&C Bethgon started me on a slightly unintentional journey to model a coal train. I model the Burlington Northern in 1995 so it made sense although there …

Lionel 6-32910 Rotary Coal Dumper Tipple

This item has been graded per TCA standards C-6: Very Good based on visual appearance. There are light nicks and scratches on the surface of this item. Track section on the inside shows light signs of wear from previous use. Some of the yellow railings are also bent or broken. A few detached pieces are included for reattachment. …

Colorado Unit Coal Trains

There are horror stories from power plants where their rotary dumper breaks down and the plant has to rent clamshell cranes to come in and scoop out their rotary coal cars while their rotary dumper is being repaired. It is definitely a bad scenario and large power plants will oftentimes have two rotary dumpers on site to allow some redundancy ...

Heyl & Patterson Rotary Car Dumper

The machine would rotate clockwise in this view to dump, probably 120 degrees of rotation. The entire dump mechanism rotates on large double flanged wheels. The center of rotation is at coupler level so that cars with rotary couplers could remain coupled during dumping. I do not know if this particular dumper was set up to dump …

Millhouse Coal Dumper

Rotary Coal Dumper . The rotary car dumpers have been around for decades, dating to back to at least the 1950's if not earlier. So if you are modeling the transition era on your layout, a rotary coal dumper is perfect for that time era ... Here is a real dumper made by the Heyl & Patterson Co. of Pittsburgh at a coal power plant in PA

Working HO Scale Rotary Dumper

Hi there, I just thought that I'd put a post up to say that I'm currently building a HO scale coal layout, that works. I have a Walthers New River Mining Co. coal mine, which I've adapted to hold 'coal', and load hopper cars, and have recently been working on a project to animate a Walthers Rotary Dumper, that I managed to win on Ebay.

This Is How They Unload Coal Trains

Unloading of coal at a power plant is much more streamlined with a rotary dumper, also known as a wagon tippler, than …

Railcar Unloading Equipment

From rotary car dumpers to railcar indexers to railcar positioners and more, our engineering experts understand the intricacies associated with bulk transfer and are here to help provide cost effective, long term …

Bulk coal handling equipment

• Car dumpers of all possible configurations, including an innovative product - a traverse-car dumper; • Ship loaders– for sea vessels up to 65,000 DWT and shuttles serving roadside transshipment, having …

José López Portillo power station

Operated by CFE (Mexico's federal electricity commission), the José López Portillo plant is one of two large coal-fired power complexes in Nava, Coahuila, Mexico. The plant's …

Rotary Railcar Dump

Rotary Railcar Dump. To maximize the efficiency of your facility's bulk material loading and unloading operations, CDG will work with you to identify, procure, install and integrate …

rotary coal dumper

LIONEL COAL ROTARY DUMPER PACK train scenery dump tender load hopper 6-16889 NEW - $13.84. LIONEL: 6-16889 Most recent catalog: Lionel 2014 Lionel Dumper Coal Bagged Made for use with the Lionel ROTARY COAL DUMPER, this coal pack features large simulated coal with enough to fill an entire Lionel Bathtub Gondola!

BN Rotary Coal Hopper and a Question

BN Rotary Coal Hopper Car 534391. Note "Rotary Coupler End" for rotary dumping. Every car in the train must have the rotary coupler at the left end. ... Neither the caboose, if there even was one, nor the motive power, would go through the "dumper" at the power plant. Larry Anglund photo, Iowa > Chapter NRHS collection [ Reply To This Message ...

Power Plant Modules – Metrolina Model Railroaders [MMRR]

Rick brings the Power Plant Building, a previously assembled Substation, 2 new boxes of substation kits, a small fenced-in set of power equipment, the package of used Powerlines, more Styro, and Hydrocal to the NCTM to be used on the new Power Plant Modules. ... I asked Rick to bring the Power Plant as well. Alan brought …

UPDATE: 6-9-14..The latest project...a power station …

Anyway, this gave me a spot next to my power station complex to develop a coaling complex. I then was able to incorporate and install my Lionel rotary coal dump into the coaling area. As you can see from the pictures, the coaling area is on a lower level in order to add interest to the scene and to avoid a ramp like approach to the coal dumper.

Walthers

Rotary Dumper - Kit - 10 x 6-1/8 x 3-1/4 ... the prototypes serve a variuety of industries that require large volumes of bulk materail such as coal, woodchips and limestone. ... Coal Conveyor with Transfer House (#933-4171), Modern High-Voltage Transmission Towers (#933-3343), Lakeshore Energy Power Plant (#933-4172), Substation (#933-4175 ...

Rotary rail car dumper coal-dust-suppressant experiment

A rotary rail car dumper dust-suppressant experiment was performed at the PEPCO Morgantown Power Plant coal handling facility, Newburg, Maryland during the late summer and early fall of 1983. From previous observations of rotary coal car dumping, it was observed that large amounts of dust, especially for washed coal, were generated from …