Show us your Coal Cars/Trains

Here is a picture of some Weaver PS-2 covered hoppers from our last store layout.

Hi Jimmy good to seeing you posting. I remember your layout and think I have some pictures of it also. Hope you and Peggy are doing GREAT!!!!

Thank you for asking uncle bill. Peggy and I are doing fine. Neither one of us like the cold. Please tell aunt Diane we said hello.

Ok Jimmy I just did and she said back at you. I have some picture you might like to see below.

Hey Pops....

Coal Cars..........

Coal   Trains.........

Patrick:  WOW! 

Here are a few of my Atlas PRR 2 bay hoppers in the coaling area of my layout.  Coal hoppers are some of my favorite type of freight cars along with tankers, box cars, and reefers.

A pair of MTH MoPac U30Cs pull Intermountain kit built hoppers, MTH 2 bay hoppers and Weaver  composite hoppers all in the Missouri Pacific Lines reporting marks.

Dan

Here are my coal cars.  Matt

My grandson L&N train 

Steve C.

Yes we have coal drags. Great pictures and videos everyone.

 A lot of great Pics!!! Here's mine Mix Atlas/Weaver. Another snowy day in Tampa.

Here's a few shots of my Detroit Edison coal train.

The SD60 is a custom painted Lionel unit now in the Oakway Leasing scheme and the trailing unit is an MTH C30-7 (PS-1 now TMCC) in Burlington Northern "whiteface". Power consists like this were common on the GTW in the 1990s era that I model.

I've got about 40 of the MTH Detroit Edison coal tons and they all have the same road number so I haven't taken many photos of the cars themselves.

Anyway, here you go. Enjoy.

BTW, I really wish MTH, Atlas or Lionel (anybody!) would do some really nice, accurate, scale C30-7's!

- RICH

Can't Resist.....

Here's a Conrail coal drag from a few years back.

Nice, Charlie!  That's a long coal train.  I like the cabin car, too.  Gold = pool, right?

George

Impressive!

George

Patrick, WOW your coal mine and the 4 coal drags really look GREAT!!! Thanks for sharing with us.

Pennsynut your coaling area looks very nice. Thanks for sharing your layout and 2 bay coal cars.

George,

Thank you

nov 11, 1961

Marking of cupola side sheets added for pool cars (cupola sides painted Chrome Yellow for cars permanently assigned to pool service, yellow donut [2" i.d., 5" o.d.] applied to cupola side sheets for cars temporarily assigned to pool service). Sets record for short lived scheme

Diesel Dan those MoPac Coal cars look very nice. Thank you for sharing them with us.

Matt (boin106) Nice variety of coal cars. Thank you for sharing with us.

Charlie (pennsyk4), Wonderful Engine on your coal drag. You have a nice variety of coal cars running there. Thank you for sharing with us.

A string of Lionel postwar Lehigh Valley 2-bay hoppers loaded down with coal.

Here's my coal train and facilities. I model with RailKing and the PRR is the railroad!

It's not mine but it's a nice old picture. Click to enlarge. Don

Alan Stephen,

Your grandson's Coal train and intermodal consist looked good. Thanks for sharing.

Steve (Corsair28), Thank you for posting the 2 very nice video's.

Mike CT, Very nice power on the lead end of your coal drag. I always enjoy seeing your beautiful layout. Thank you for sharing your coal drag with us.

FMC You and the Boston Metro Hi-Railers really have a WONDERTFUL series of coal drags.

FMC I was not sure if the first Video was at your home but VERY Nice job on the layout and I also really liked the dlow speed as your 15 car CSX Coal Drag started to climb the hill. Thank you for posting these GREAT Video's for us to enjoy!!!

Bobby Ogage, Good looking LIRR Coal DraG. tHANKS FOR POSTING.

Come on guys, how about some tinplate.  Some of MY prewar coal trains, all with an extra car.

1930 #310 "O" gauge "Twist" with 262 engine.

1938 #189W Coal Train with 225 engine.

1941 #828W Coal Master with 226 engine.

It's strange that the 1930 and 1941 sets have the same caboose.  I guess the more scale #2682 caboose would have looks too small behind those really large #3859 dump cars

Here is an excellant example of how to turn a toy train layout into a purpose driven Model railroad. It happens to use coal in this video. I found it very enjoyable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P0XFSl7wv0