I just discovered the rotary car dumper for the first time ever!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbJl_Astx_w

I guess the air brake lines don't have to be disconnected also. I guess this is what rotary couplers are for.

I guess also that rotary couplers can be fitted onto older hopper and gondola cars too.

The Heyl & Patterson model above even blows off the debris (with air or water?) from the side of the car like an automatic car wash
as the just-emptied car pulls out.


Here's an operating one for model trains even:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_MYR39fyY


Railroading is full of many technology surprises.

I guess the rotary dump beats hand shovels, excavators, giant vacuum cleaners, prying hopper doors open and everything else. :cool:
 
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thats really cool is it possible in trainz? is it possible to have a hump yard now or are the train cars still stuck in one place?
 
Hump yards were always possible in Trainz ... slowly at 2 mph shove a draft of cars up over a 1m tall hump, uncouple them one at a time, let them roll down a -0.02% incline ...

At Phila Greenwich coal iron ore piers, they had loaded coal/iron ore hopper storage yard, a thawing shed, a vibration shaker, and they kept a constant flow of hoppers rolling down to twin kickbacks, where a pneumatic pig would rise out between the tracks, and shove the cars up an incline to the rotary unloader, where they were again rolled down a hump yard in an empty receiving yard


In Hulett unloaders an operator would climb inside the clamshell mast, and ride down into the iron ore ships belly, day in, and day out ... a front end loader was craned down inside the ship hold, where it would push iron ore into piles, for the Hulett to clamshell scoop it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JErREoMOdDc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGO8GGozTe0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RJfnk2S330
 
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nugget2225 said:
thats really cool is it possible in trainz? is it possible to have a hump yard now or are the train cars still stuck in one place?
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Hump yards need a proper automatic retarder braking system. Computers throw switches to get the rolling cars to their correct sidings according to bar codes with route information.
 
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