Ash amd whar ro do with it

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Satyr

I love of Choo-Choo's
Hello fellow Trainzers,

Heeeelp me please!!!!!!
I am building this route which has mainly staem.
The problem is that I am up to my ears in cars loaded with ash from the engine facilities.
Can anybody advise me where I could take it, i.e. are there industries that use large quantities of ash.

I am eagerly awaiting your words of wisdom.

Thanks.
E.C
 
Satyr said:
Hello fellow Trainzers,

Heeeelp me please!!!!!!
I am building this route which has mainly staem.
The problem is that I am up to my ears in cars loaded with ash from the engine facilities.
Can anybody advise me where I could take it, i.e. are there industries that use large quantities of ash.

I am eagerly awaiting your words of wisdom.

Thanks.
E.C
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cement production plus many other uses.
wiki "fly ash"
Rog
 
When I visited Pompei some years ago, I asked what had been done with the volcanic ash which had been removed during the excavations.

The answer was - for building a motorway! Is this the answer?

Ray
 
You can use ash, to catch an elephant:

You dig a deep hole in the earth, 12' x 12' square ... and fill the hole with ash ... then camouflage the hole with branch's ... and take a bunch of green peas, and carefully place them all around the perimeter of the 12' deep ash pit ... then when the elephant comes to take a pea ... you kick him in the ash _ _ _ _.:hehe:
 
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Hello evrybody.

Thanks for your suggestions.
Love the elephant one, but I'm too lazy to go and dig holes.

Euphod said:
"Ash amd whar ro do with it"

I'm sorry, but I'm not fluent in "Scooby Doo"!:hehe:
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Got to keep that damn dog away from the puter.;)
Ptoblem is that I am severely vision impaired and the letters on my keyboartd overlay are turning into white squares coz it's getting worn out, so T's turn into R's or Y's etc. Its a big pain in the proverbial.:o
And the fact that I use the hunt and peck method to type doesn't improve things either.:hehe:

E.C.
 
My GF dropped a tele-o-phone book on the laptop keyboard, then she ripped 4 keys off the keyboard (when removing the Kat from the keyboard, as he was typing) (I swear she would use an axe, to remove a fly from her forehead). Now I have little paper tabs, with little handwritten labels, taped over the spots on the keyboard, where the missing keys were at one time.

I think it is the "Confounded Blinding Yellow Compass" that is ruining all our vision ! http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=75296

Concerning two finger hunt and peck typing: My screen name is cascaderailroad as the letters c-a-s-c-a-d-e-r-a-r-d are all clustered together on the keyboard
 
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cascaderailroad said:
My GF dropped a tele-o-phone book on the laptop keyboard, then she ripped 4 keys off the keyboard (when removing the Kat from the keyboard, as he was typing) (I swear she would use an axe, to remove a fly from her forehead). Now I have little paper tabs, with little handwritten labels, taped over the spots on the keyboard, where the missing keys were at one time.

I think it is the "Confounded Blinding Yellow Compass" that is ruining all our vision ! http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=75296
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I read the post about the yellow perril, unfortunately I can't blameAuran for my poor vision (bummer, otherwise I could have sued them):hehe:. It's because of Diabetes (Type II).
Bit of a pain having to read the assets menu in Trainz with a magnifying glas, it slows things down a bit, and interupts the creative flow.:)

Still, things are comming along nicely.This is just a small sample:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFAmnhypQBc

Toodles,
E.C.
 
Could you reduce the amount of ash produced, if not cheat. Load the wagons then use the instant unload command
 
Glad you have a good sense of humor there Satyr, I figured those horns were getting in the way of your typing!;)

I have some bad vision too, but it's much better than it was awhile back!
 
fran1 said:
Could you reduce the amount of ash produced, if not cheat. Load the wagons then use the instant unload command
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Hi Fran1,

Thanks for your suggestion.
Maybe you shouldn't take things so literally:wave:, after all its a puter proggy, and it is easy to delete anything with the thouch of a button.
It wad just my way of trying to find out what happens in the real world with the ash from the locos.
Ever since last Decamber when I bought the program, I spend all my waking hours on the puter building a lyout.
Damn it I even have to take a shower when I go to bed coz I am torally covered in sooth, ash and grease from the steam locos:hehe:

Toodles.
E.C.
 
Euphod said:
Glad you have a good sense of humor there Satyr, I figured those horns were getting in the way of your typing!;)

I have some bad vision too, but it's much better than it was awhile back!
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G'day Euphod,

A sense of humour is an excellemt survival mechanism, specially if you have a body that is almost ready for demolition:hehe:.
I was thinking of donating my organs after my demise, but I doubt very much wether there will be anything usefull left in there.:D
As for my eyes, unfortunately, the nerves are death, so there will be no improvement for me. Its like playing russian roulette everytime I have to cross a busy road. The excitement never stops:hehe:.
And to think that there are people who pay a fortune to do all these dangerous stunts, I just have to try and cross the road, and that's free.:cool:

TTFN
E.C.
 
Ed ,

Glad to hear your vision has improved , will it continue to get better ?

Satyr ,

Sorry to interrupt your thread but was interested in Euphod's condition .

--- dave
 
Hi Satyr,

I just did a quick search on Wikipedia for fly ash

What we are talking about ash from steam engines would be called bottom ash.

When the railways were using steam engines there was not much concern about heavy metals and other contaminates in the coal ash and most of it was likely dumped some where as land fill.

However I do know of one use of loco ash here in Australia. The track maintenance gangs used to take it out and pour it down rabbit burrows in the railway embankments.
:eek:
Block a rabbit hole entrance with dirt or gravel and the rabbits would clear it out in hours.
Fine coal ash how ever flows almost like water and would penetrate deep into the burrow and would almost be impossible for the rabbits to shift.


However back to your layout, you cold send coal ash to a concrete factory or a waste dump.

Lindsay
 
So with twodorgs sujussion i would build a deep hole put a unloading ramp and unload the ash in the land fill
 
Seriously... railroads (in the northeast US and Canada, anyways) used coal ash (cinders?) as a sort of ballast on their branch lines. The branch line (Boston and Maine) that ran through my hometown had it until the 1970's. Worked pretty good.... until they ran out of supply! :)
 
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Twodorgs said:
Hi Satyr,

I just did a quick search on Wikipedia for fly ash

What we are talking about ash from steam engines would be called bottom ash.

When the railways were using steam engines there was not much concern about heavy metals and other contaminates in the coal ash and most of it was likely dumped some where as land fill.

However I do know of one use of loco ash here in Australia. The track maintenance gangs used to take it out and pour it down rabbit burrows in the railway embankments.
:eek:
Block a rabbit hole entrance with dirt or gravel and the rabbits would clear it out in hours.
Fine coal ash how ever flows almost like water and would penetrate deep into the burrow and would almost be impossible for the rabbits to shift.


However back to your layout, you cold send coal ash to a concrete factory or a waste dump.

Lindsay
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Thanks Lindsay,

I will look up Bottom ash on wiki.
I s'pose in Europe the practises were the same, except for trying to annoy the rabits:D.
The layout I am working on is mainly set somwhere in Europe.
Here's a piccy
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Toodles.
E.C.
 
What a fine pastoral scene you've set there. I also like the screen I saw in the screenshots forum...well done!
 
Satyr said:
I read the post about the yellow perril, unfortunately I can't blameAuran for my poor vision (bummer, otherwise I could have sued them):hehe:. It's because of Diabetes (Type II).
Bit of a pain having to read the assets menu in Trainz with a magnifying glas, it slows things down a bit, and interupts the creative flow.:)

Still, things are comming along nicely.This is just a small sample:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFAmnhypQBc

Toodles,
E.C.
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I hate when you can't spell a simple word and forget for no reason how to spell it. Like one time I forgot how to spell possibly sometimes still blanks my mind:o. How you thought of getting a bigger monitor to see things better?
 
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