Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Building the AMAZING locomotive shops on our narrow-gauge large-scale indoor-outdoor model railroad. This week we make the ash pit where the cinders from the locomotives are dumped at the end of the day before putting the locomotive away for the day.
The ash pit is a concrete pit with tracks supported on steel beams above the pit such that cinders can be dumped from the grates at the bottom of the firebox. The crew can rattle the grates and prod the cinders with poles as they dump the fire from the locomotive. Often the fire e is not completely dumped and the locomotive is put away warm ready to refire the next morning.
We are building the pit from extruded styrene foam sides and styrene I beams from Plaststruct.
Building the AMAZING locomotive shops on our narrow-gauge large-scale indoor-outdoor model railroad. This week we make the ash pit where the cinders from the locomotives are dumped at the end of the day before putting the locomotive away for the day.
The ash pit is a concrete pit with tracks supported on steel beams above the pit such that cinders can be dumped from the grates at the bottom of the firebox. The crew can rattle the grates and prod the cinders with poles as they dump the fire from the locomotive. Often the fire e is not completely dumped and the locomotive is put away warm ready to refire the next morning.
We are building the pit from extruded styrene foam sides and styrene I beams from Plaststruct.
