The Lite and Narrow Column - 11
sheet styrene to cut and carefully scribe, score and gently bend
angles for main hopper and slope sheets. Spout was made
from styrene also cut into a strip 18 scale HO inches, scored @
12" increments bent and folded then glued together. Then the
ends of the boxed tube were angle-cut and filed to fit hopper
body. This is where the loading chute will mount.
On mine, one larry has its chute down for the loading position
and the other has its chute stowed upright, showing that this
charge wagon has just been emptied.
13: Close up of Tom Maule's two painted larry cars on
the Sewell coke ovens. Tom Maule photo.
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14: This illustrates the diminutive size of the larry cars.
Tom Maule photo.
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15: Coke ovens at Sewell, WV on Ron Lane’s Mann’s
Creek Railway. Two of the ovens have smoke units
installed. Photo by Ron Lane.
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MRH-Dec 2013
