Re: Fifty Gold Mines Mill Car Loader.
Posted by drgwcs on
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The compression of the mill was not really by choice. My Black Hawk scene is in "found space" and is a foot wide. (any wider and there would not be an aisle) Thus the mill is shallower than the prototype. That necessitated the single row of Wilfleys but it works visually as the stamps are a bit wider than the prototypes. I am actually scratchbuilding the Wilfleys as there is not really a kit that resembles the ones in the Bobtail. That has been true of all the machinery including the stamps and the feeders. I have done some goofball things in building this. I was puzzling over how to build the feeder bins for example and one morning I noticed that the disposable razor I was using had a handle shape that was close to the bins- so there are four razors in my model.
The mill is at the end of the Black Hawk peninsula and faces into the room- it will have a clear wall and the whole thing is lighted. It is certainly not an exact interior because of these things and quite frankly some things such as the arrangement of the front of the mill and top of the bins are unknown.
Thanks Jim
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Well you probably saved me some hassle there Cris- I was wondering how to fit that chute in. Interesting to hear it was gone later. It also does not show in a photo in the prospectus. I guess I was trying to cover my bases- as it seems like info always crops up AFTER I finish a model. Your info is always a help. The concentrate photo was just what triggered the idea.Jim,
I hate to pour cold water on your discovery but on reflection of several factors I'd be rather sure it wasn't for loading the "roofhatch" Boxcars. I do realise we all strive to find validation in our model world, done it myself back in the day.
That photo DPL X-2052 is early, after construction of the last Mill on that site. Later photos of the Mill show the apperatus removed, the last use was 1935 according to The Gilpin Railroad Era by Abbott and McCoy: see pg 277. The Roofhatch car(s) were up Clear Creek (DPL OP-6260) in 1939 and(DPL OP-6282) in 1941, long after severance of a Leadville connection and the(probable) traffic use specifically for the Climax Mill expansion.
Your concentrates image(DPL X-60603) is taken inside the Clear Creek Mill at Empire(Jct); I didn't at the time see the need to include it: see http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Silver-Mountain-Mill-At-Empire-Station-tp18080.html
I had written the DPL after the Silver Mountain Mill article to update their caption correcting the stated location of those photos taken there but they didn't action it for some reason still listing it as being at I.S.
Your modelling efforts in compressing the Fifty to avoid going broke on detail castings is admired. fwiw.
The compression of the mill was not really by choice. My Black Hawk scene is in "found space" and is a foot wide. (any wider and there would not be an aisle) Thus the mill is shallower than the prototype. That necessitated the single row of Wilfleys but it works visually as the stamps are a bit wider than the prototypes. I am actually scratchbuilding the Wilfleys as there is not really a kit that resembles the ones in the Bobtail. That has been true of all the machinery including the stamps and the feeders. I have done some goofball things in building this. I was puzzling over how to build the feeder bins for example and one morning I noticed that the disposable razor I was using had a handle shape that was close to the bins- so there are four razors in my model.
The mill is at the end of the Black Hawk peninsula and faces into the room- it will have a clear wall and the whole thing is lighted. It is certainly not an exact interior because of these things and quite frankly some things such as the arrangement of the front of the mill and top of the bins are unknown.
Thanks Jim
Jim Curran
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