In more recent modeling with the unit trains for coal, and fairly much the same car style, nothing gets the juices flowing more than watching for the car with the double painted panels at each end, noting rotary couplers on both ends and then the change in direction of the cars with now the color panel on the opposite end of the car from before....aaahhhh railfanning.
Or having been trackside at Decatur, Arkansas on the KCS and being 10 feet from the track behind the fence and having the SD-40 helpers or slaves come past at about 4 miles and hour, evering thing shakes, shoving hard to get the tonnage up the hill and into Gentry, where helpers are cut off on the run and return to Neosho, Missouri for the next assignment.. gale----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Werre To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 10:18 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Moving Coal An interesting side note here might be that if your modeling the transition era and western roads you will be shipping much of your coal by gondola (in our case DesPlains and Drake GS's) Additionally stock cars equipped with drop bottoms,and older boxcars were also used in localized situations. In my hometown boxcars were the only thing used to bring in coal that I ever saw. In the steam era you will often see coaling towers with the inclined trestle with a string of gondolas filled with company coal. Bob Werre BobWphoto.com Tom Hawley wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ed Kozlowsky > Perhaps someone could tell me why there is such a love affair with > Hoppers > in S. It's certainly the predominant car available. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > S Scalers are getting into realism? Hard to believe, but maybe. I used to > have the feeling that billboard reefers were the predominant item in S. > You'd even see guys running long trains of them pulled by diesels when S > portable layouts were set up in public. > > But isn't coal historically and still today the #1 commodity carried by > railroads? And we're finally getting away from the tinplate syndrome of a > coal hopper train with every car physically idential except the paint > job. > The several different body styles of 2-bay hoppers from SHS; the 2-, > 3-, and > 4-bay hoppers from AM, and the 3-bay SSA hopper allow one to create a > coal > train with a realistic variety of body styles. > > And speaking of moving coal, we're looking forward to the imminent > release > of some new road or owner names on the DPH rotary dump coal gondolas. > > Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
