fredmcain wrote:
Dawna,
Do you use battery powered motors or "trammers"?
Regards,
Fred M. Cain
I have 48V trammers that takes 4 6v batteries.Two of them(trammers i mean). They was already in the mine when i aquired it. All i did was just fix them up well enough to run them. The mine they was in is a patent and i was able to aquire the patent and from some other people that have thier own patents up in that area was telling me that when they closed down the mine back in the 40,s, that all the ore cars, trammers, tanks, pumps, etc was taken into the mine and the mine entrance blasted shut. Thats how i found them.
After i aquired the mine i found the mine train near the back of the mine still on the tracks. It was the 2 trammers, 8 ore cars, 4 are 1 ton cars, the other four are bigger cars that run on the 20lb track(the mine tracks was setup with the standard 8lb track and 20lb track ,one inside the other of sorts.Why they setup the trackage this way i have no clue.), a flat car and a timber car (a flatcar that has wooden uprights on it).
Now, about the trackage... they had the tracks laid with the smaller gauge track inside the larger gauge track so they obviously was using two different sized ore cars, possibly one size for the ore and the other size for what they thought might be waste rock. These tracks end at the hopper about 300 feet ahead of the mine entrance. About halfway between the hopper and the mine entrance, they had 'ears' that went off to the left and the right of the main track for a short distance where they stored the cars that they wasnt using at the time BUT someone had graciously pulled up the track and just left the ties where the tracks once laid. I already replaced those missing sections of track though since i thought that was a brilliant idea to have a storage area for the cars when im not using them in the mine at the time.
Dawna