ETMRC HO Scale

ETMRC HO Scale Layout

At the Gym — Location Number 5
Evolution of Mathis Mine #5

Rob D's Blog 09 November 2018

Other areas of the layout were cleaned and readied for the shows.

Rob D's Blog 27 May 2018

Next we will take a look at the modified side of the new river mine to go from a slope mine to a shaft mine.Webmaster comment — track lower left is standard gauge; track middle left is 3 foot gauge.

And we will see the face most often seen by the crews working the mine.

Rob D's Blog 20 November 2017

In some prep for an operating session to take place sometime in the future I put some loaded coal cars in the coal mine tracks.

Rob D's Blog 13 April 2017

Here we have Tom M and Jared working on the coal mine area. The project is going to be the hill side the mine backs up against.

At the end of the day it looked like this. Still more work to be done but progress was made.

Rob D's Blog 11 February 2016

Ron recently built the head house and hoist from a kit that Bob T purchased and did not have time to build. He is now determining how it will be incorporated into the coal tipple. At this point he is planning on notching the tipple and building the hill side out to support the head house. A vertical wall be used in some fashion and some slight adjustment of the tipple may happen.

Rob D's Blog 24 August 2015
Now on to the world of scale coal mines!

Above and two below are different aspects of the head house to convert our drift mine into a vertical shaft mine. Bob T bought the kit and has been occupied with other things so Ron built it for him.

The large block of foam is just in position to hold it up until everyone decides how the two structures will be combined. There are several schools of thought regarding this at the present time. Some even involve moving it further away and installing conveyors to move the coal from the mine head to the tipple.

August 2013

Mathis Mine No. 5 and Narrow Gauge Curved Trestle