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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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