Len B posted:Big_Boy_4005 posted:I'm hesitant to even say this for fear of jinxing an unfinished deal, but over the weekend I found a 16 car set of Atlas coalveyor hoppers. I've wanted these for quite some time, and WEPX is an excellent fit for my layout motif. Fingers crossed.
It really makes no sense that they aren't using the tooling
Build yourself a miniature steam plant to power that layout of yours, then slap a couple of Grinstein Green SD70MACs on the front end of those cars and use the train to keep your plant fed.
Len, technically the layout IS coal fired already, but I'll leave that part to Xcel Energy and just pay the bills. Much easier that way.
Now from a modeling perspective, you are pretty close. The power plant is located too far south to appear on the layout. The train will just come out of the hidden yard. If it takes the eastbound direction it is loaded, traveling west, it's empty. A little imagination is required for the westbound, because I'm not going to remove the loads. Too much hassle.
