Well, we’ve shown pictures of maintenance equipment, how about showing off your coal trains? [:D]
The Cedar Branch & Western only has one coal mine, so the coal drags are only about 8 or 9 cars long. In the shot below, the coal train is halfway to the Mopac interchange as it passes through Miller’s Cove.
click to enlarge, of course.
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That works! How about some more grande man!
Here’s a few more…
GP30’s struggle upgrade with a load of Platte Canyon coal.
Southbound empty rumbles out of Denver’s Cherokee Station power plant.
Eastbound coal drag heads for the Joint Line.
F3 led coal train on the Mine #4 bypass.
Daybreak departure.
Can ya tell I like coal trains?[:D]
Here’s mine![:D]
If you can’t see the photo image here is a link:
[url=“http://www.intergate.com/~acoates149/images/NYC&NKPCoalTrain.JPG”]
Not too fancy, but effective.[:)]
I wish you’d waited another month or so before asking for this, my coal cars are still all packed away [sigh]. Gotta ballast my track first, and put my structures back on.
Hope this still works. I do apologize as the website has some content that may not be appropriate. I am in process of finding another free hoster that does not have this questionable material on thier site.
And now… Here is a BLI 2-8-2 Mikado coming off a 3.5% Compound curve with a pair of tank cars and 10 empty athearn coal hoppers. There is a bit of thunder from the storm we were in during this shoot.
http://video.freevideoblog.com/Player.aspx?fileid=8B2AFC1F-B11B-4C10-8310-A061AD153E5A
On the Baltimore Society of Model Engineers Website: ***NOTE- These videos are referred for your enjoyment, The BSME is the sole creator and owner of these videos. I did not have anything to do in making these.
Long Coal Drag Climbs the S Grade
http://www.modelengineers.com/movies/movie2.html
Coal Drag Approaches Summit
http://www.modelengineers.com/movies/movie3.html
Here’s a shot I took a while back. I then added a little smoke and heat distortion with a photo editing program. The caption says it all.
“UP 8242 leads an AC4400 and another SD90/43MAC which are all working hard to lug another load of Black Diamonds east.”
