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9: Rear of Martinsburg Tipple with the hoist house and
changing office. The garage is scratch built using plans
from the Coal Mine series by Jack Work in 1959. The
corrugated walls and roofing are the new corrugated
paper from Northeastern Lumber.
arrives. One of these tipples is a kit for the Mill Creek Coal and
Coke from BTS.
This is a massive structure, and will be the primary tipple on
the layout. This structure is very interesting in that you have to
add your own mine trackage. If you want to have some “real”
fun, try laying code 40 rail for mine trackage and kick switches
(single point turnouts that move by kicking them). This kit
is still under construction due to its massive size and the
development of the diorama for it.
Of the two finished tipples, one is an Industrial Heritage
Models kit, Riley Coal Company, based on a drawing by
Charles McCoy of a soft coal tipple in the March, 1976
NMRA
Bulletin.
This kit is long out of production; but it does have
the distinction of being one of the first laser kits that was
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produced. The design is for a tipple that was used as a truck
dump for a very large strip mine, but with very little effort it
can be changed into one that is serviced by mine cars with just
the addition of some track and then letting it disappear into
the backdrop.
The second finished tipple is the Martinsburg tipple by
American Model Builders. This is a small shaft tipple that
served by both the railroad and trucks.
The other two tipples that are under construction are the Joller
tipple from the East Broad Top (“Modeling Miller Coal Company’s
Joller Facilities, Part I, Part II, and Part III,
”Timber Transfer,
Volumes
13, Numbers 2, 3 and 4, 1996-97 by Ron Pearson), and the
White Rapids tipple that was built in a series of articles in
Model
10: End of Martinsburg tipple showing the run out trestle.
Across from it is the open end of the garage. A corru-
gated blacksmith shop will be added in the near future. It
is also from the Jack Work articles.
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