MODEL PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR


Modeling the inside, outside “N


Modeling the remains of a hoist house/Chuck Diljak


uts, I didn’t plan for this to happen.” I’m sure you’ve said this or have been in


this position, before. A situation like this usually happens when you have ordered something or built something, and later find out that it doesn’t satisfy what you envisioned. Many times, it


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puts a project on the skids until a sat- isfactory solution can be found. In my case, I was happily building an HO anthracite mine scene for my Wyoming Valley Railroad when I dis- covered a hoist machinery kit by Rio Grande Models. The head frame for the mine I kitbashed had four sheaves on it.


Since the hoist machine model is a dou- ble drum, carrying two cables for two sheaves, two of these kits were ordered. When I


received the model kits, I


thought they were a little undersized for my mining operation. Putting my initial assessment aside, I built one of the models, anyway, and, when it was


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These photographs from the Historic American Engineering Record archives show the abandoned remains of the Sloss Red hoist house in Birmingham, Alabama. In the picture on the left


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the engine can be seen on the left, the drive shaft in the center and the large hoist drum in the back on the right. The picture on the rightprovides a closer view of the hoist drum.


MARCH 2014


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