Campbell Coaling tower competed

I finally finished this build. Took a little over 2 months of part time work. This and the Sargent's roundhouse are 2 of the main structures I need for my engine terminal 2'x5' diorama. I'll build a few small "support" structures soon. My next major project will be a 3'x6' waterfront diorama.

Here are the final pics.I'll get back to this whenI get the replacement Wather's turntable.

The 2 brass rods are for lighting the interior of the hoist house

I put coal in the pit before putting in the grates, used diluted white glue to hold the coal down.

This was a fun and interesting build, but I'm happy it's done. This was a 2 bottles of scotch project!

Campbell coal tower part whatever

Almost finished with this model!
This project has been one of the more challaging models that I've built in a long time. I've got the roofs finished and weathered. I made my corrugated and not shingled as supplied in the kit.

I need to touch up the underside of the roof since I see some shining metal.

A great way t improve your models is to take pictures of it and enlarge them. This way you can see things you might have missed

The gate mechanism was a bit fiddly. I would love to see the real gate in person, as I'm not sure about the lower end of the coal bin as built from the kit. From the pics of the real one in Chama, the coal gate drops down, but the floor joists are in the way. Sounds like I need to go on a road trip and look at this in person.

In the photo above, you can see the coal gate winding pulleys sticking out. I drilled them out and super glued them to some brass rod. These will locate the coal bin at the correct height.

Here is the finished coal bin. I added a piece of styene to the back side to raise the height of the wall as per the pics of Durago's tower. Chama is the same

Campbell coal tower. Coal pocket & hoist house

A few quick pics
Almost have the coal pocket finished. Still need to build the coal chute.

Got all the roof rafters down

In the pic below, I've got the sub-roof down. Corrugated roofing will go over this

 

Here are a few pics of the hoist house

 

I replaced the kit windows with Grandt Line 5032. These are what the Durango hoist house windows look like according to the various pics I've looked at.

 

I added in a representative interior. I had some Rio Grande Models castings laying around on my workbench for about a year. I used the 2 drum wench, which is not quite right, but it looks close enough. Also added the Blacksmith set #3 which is an air tank and compressor. It looks pretty good through the windows and sure looks heaps better than an empty building.

Next up is the hoist house roof and  putting the coal pocket on top of the HH.

Will add some stout bracing to the underside roof, so it doesn't sag.

 

 

Campbel Coal Tower Coal Pocket

I've started on the coal pocket.
I added a new link to Dave's Rio Grande page.
He has some great pics of the tower at Chama
http://davesriogrande.net/Structures/ChamaCoalTower/ChamaCoalTower.htm

The pic below shows all the sides built up over their templates.
You should not have to cut any parts to fit, they are all precut to the proper lenght, so if a part needs cutting, stop and look for another one. It's there somewhere!

Looking down inside frm the top. I started adding the floor joists

The backside.

The front. I added Grandt line nut/bolt detail.

Test fitting the floor

Below is the  real esate template

Youcan see it occupies an area 5 x5.5 inches.

The pit track center line is 1.5 inches from the outside edge.

The track center line for the tower side may depend on what the largest engine you have.

I'm setting mine at 1 inch from the edge of the hoist house (for now)

I cut the paper to the actual dimesions listed and will use it to help me in my track planning on the diorama.

If anyone is building one and would like to share their work, I'll be happy to add your pics

Building the Campbell coal tower

I started laying out the various sizes of wood. You can see I have the hoist house put together, less the roof. Everyone who has one of these kits, get it out and let's build together and share your work.

After looking at pictures of Chama, it is apparent that the outer loft house supports are shown too far in. These need to be moved to the edge and be one solid piece on the corner.  (Shown in red)I understand why there are drawn there, they will then lineup with the bucket hoist rails. But on the real one, they don't

in the picture below, I've added a red line that shows the center line for the rods that open the coal drop doors. This helps locate the bottom cross piece on the bucket rails. It needs to move up a bit from the plan

In this picture, I've added a piece to fill in between to coal drops. (not shown on the Campbell plans) Not sure of the depth on the real one, so I made mine 2 feet below the the top. I also glued the hoist house floor to the back side

Next up is building the coal pockets.

Where's my Single malt Scotch?

Coaling tower build

I'm now starting the coaling tower project. I'm using the Campbell Coaling Station.
I started the coal pit first.

This will be painted concrete. Actually it's outside drying now as I write this.

The view above shows the 2 openings for the coal doors.

Sargent RH roof

I finally finished the roof project

After gluing down the tarpaper, I airbrushed all the seams black. To do this I set the airbrush down to a very fine line. After that was done, I sprayed the roof with Tamiya black-green.

After that all dried, I glued down the vents and sprayed them with Testors exhaust

I then sprayed the whole roof with a diluted black wash, which I did while cleaning my airbrush

Need to fix the corner as I see the paper is lifting a bit.

 

Airbrushed some soot to the underside of the roof

I'll add the doors and  talk about the pit installation when I install it. Not sure when that will be as I'm still waiting on my turntable to come back from Walthers. It seems that have had a few of the N scale TT's get returned!. In the meantime, I'm starting to work on the coaling tower