Railworks America

Does anyone know where to find a tank car unloading structure? I thought I had one but can not find it. I have plenty of loaders but no unloader.

I don't believe I ever saw one. But if you find one please let me know I could use it also.

What does an unloader look like? I used to live by a facility that unloaded glycol tank cars and the unloading structure looked just like the 'loading platform' that's in the file library here.

There is this in Portland Terminal if you have it...









Rod

Portland Terminal . . . haven't driven that in ages! But is that an unloader or a loader?

Wow! I think I'd better pick up Portland Terminal. Thats a very cool looking asset.

I don't think there is an actual load, unload. I think it's just static. Still cool. I have it in some of my routes.

Here's a nice layout from O'Briens Mobile, Ala route.

I could probably try to make one as a freeware item, but as of right now I have no idea of how to get it to work to unload a tank car or something like that, may I ask how one works in the sim?

I had the impression that tank cars were unloaded from valves at the bottom of the car, not from the top. I could be wrong but not really sure how they are unloaded. I am not looking for a realistic unloader but just simulated. Thinking about a two level structure with piping on the bottom level and top level giving access for crews to get to the top loading hatch. I thought I had one like that when playing with the NSAND v1 but that version I deleted long ago. It was not a NSAND asset!

https://www.google.com/search?q=picture ... d=0CB0QsAQ

And for one version of detailed unloading steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwh3601eGKA

Interesting process I never gave much thought to. I'd love to have a loader/unloader too.

A very informative video. Looking at some pics of tank car I noticed that some had a connection on top for unloading. And what I thought was an unloading connection on one was actually a wash out connection. So evidently both bottom unloading and top unloading are both used. Maybe dependent on load types. A bottom unloading structure would be nice, perhaps a little more complicated that the video.