I came across this interesting picture of a coal/coke stacker. The picture is posted on Facebook in the Steel Mill Groups. I found it interesting. This could be built as a diorama display. My interest in it would be to animate it with a connected rotary dumper. The dumper would dump coal/coke onto the lower conveyor and then the stacker would pile it up in a long line pile. The question is, how does the coal/coke get onto the incline conveyor from the bottom conveyor that runs along underneath. The mechanism is to the right just out of the picture.

I just got my first resin building. I want to use Pan Pastells and Dr Ben's weathering stains on it. What primer should I use?

Blayne.

Moderator note: Since "Primer" has many possible different meanings (such as a primer on track planning) we updated your subject to be more specific so you're more likely to get the answer you're looking for.

Following posts will have pictures of my build of Railroad Kit's Dannen Feeds as modified to be a prototype based but freelance ShurGain Feeds-n-Needs.

Once upon a time, long ago and far away, an impulse buy of a E&C Bethgon started me on a slightly unintentional journey to model a coal train.  I model the Burlington Northern in 1995 so it made sense although there wasn't a lot of coal in the area I model, the PNW.  There were PGEX, "the Rose Trains" to PGE's facilty at Boardman, OR.  BN's experimental Trough Train delivered coal to the steam plant at Centralia, WA and various trains unloaded at Robert's Bank, BC, for export.