Strip mining

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Lester Perry

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I know little about strip mining. I remember as a kid in WV seeing bare mountains in Logan county That in the early 70s they had to reclaim the land but that is it. I think I would like to model a 1940s strip mine but don't know how. I have searched the internet but found very little. Can anyone out there help me out?
 


45.56733, -62.67926
http://maps.google.ca/

Go to Google Maps, drop the above co ordinates in the search window and then select satellite. Use the little man icon for the street look and have a look around a present day strip mine. This is a small operation when compared to the ones in the USA in the 1940 era. They are using present day excavators and these are much smaller than the ones used in the USA mines of that era

Below is a link to Wikipedia and information about Dragline_excavators used in the USA. Not much but it's a start those strip mines of those days occupied large areas, there are links in Wikipedia that should get you more information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragline_excavator

Cheers
Willis
 
thank you to all for your input.I think I have figured out how to make this work in a relatively small area. I will keep you up to date on the progress. This will be an area under my main layout. It can be up to 30" deep and about 6 feet long. I said can be, it probably will be about 8 to 12" deep and about 3 feet long. As I said it will be or should say is under main layout so available height will dictate the depth. The track is loosely there now very loosely as in not even fastened down.
 
Google "Bucyrus" for enormous draglines. The components were often shipped by rail so you could potentially have some modified flats bringing in a new machine with the train having high / wide load restrictions.
 
My area we have strip mines all over but for limerock instead of coal. They use heavy draglines, cause the pit's tend to turn in to lakes as soon as they get deep enough to hit a spring! even when the pit fills up with water it doesn't stop the mining!
 
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