Silo
Sand storage tower for filling locomotive sand boxes.
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A grain silo on the Chesapeake Bay & Western RR layout.
A Newport News Public Schools bus is seen here on the Chesapeake Bay & Western RR layout.
Tape together, and you have a tank, smokestack or silo. Use a round disk of paper for the top of a tank. Silos with round tops can be made from caps found on some household and aerosol products. The dome-shaped caps can be painted silver.
In addition to sizing the coal, tipples would often wash the coal and treat it with oil to decrease the dustiness. In many cases, slack coal was stored in a silo rather than a bin to reduce the risks of flash fires.
 See also: Track, Train, Rail, Standard, Scale
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