Conway Coal

Real nice job..........................Paul

Very nice!  But, are you sure it's Anthracite coal?

Hot Water.... yes, it truly is actual anthracite coal loads made by conwaycoal.com.

OK but, what I was referring to was, why would the NYC be hauling Anthracite coal in that area? If I remember correctly, Anthracite was mined in the eastern mountains around Scranton, PA. 

simply because it's my railroad and can deliver whatever kind of coal anywhere I choose. I'm not modeling any specific prototype operation.

Great photo! And, a cool train!

LOL!!!!  It's my party...

 

Rick

In the recent Lackawanna Pocono set, Lionel painted the anthracite coal load in the hopper blue.  I do not think blue coal is what they think it means.  It is a nice set and my layout is strictly toy trains but I did have to repaint that coal load.

Nice looking layout!

You sound like Warren Buffett and BNSF !!

Thank you. Some people obviously take things way too serious. If I was worried about what kind of coal I was carrying and where, by whom, I certainly wouldn't have a third rail running down the middle of my track!

Not that I'm saying Lionel would do something totally prototypical,  but wasn't there a coal company that had some similar marketing gimmick? I vaguely remember something about real painted coal loads and little paper tags in the coal with the company logo, stuff like that.

Really nice photo.

Nice scenery !1 thanks for sharing

That is a nice looking scene there...great detail.

When I was growing up the Delaware and Hudson coal company had orange tags in the coal loads.  We heated with coal back then.  Early 50s.  I have no recollection of painted coal but I suppose anything is possible.

Blue coal was sprayed with a blue colored substance. The final product had a blue sheen in some lights not the bright blue paint effect Lionel has chosen.

Scotie

Great scene and the background really adds to the photo. 

 

Art

 

As far as I was ever aware, the blue coloring was dye, not paint.

 

Nice picture.  I particularly like your lighthouse - it looks like Bodie Island, on the Outer Banks, with the black and white horizontal stripes.  Thanks for sharing it.

It's actually a replica of the lighthouse in Cape Canaveral Florida but I liked the Black and white stripes also. Thanks!

Brings back memories growing up in the Scranton area seeing coal hoppers filled with big shinny chunks of Anthracite on their way to market.  Used it in our fireplace, just shake the ash grate twice a day and add a shovel or two, burned from November to April without any problems, kept the house warm and comfy all winter.  My layout plans have an Anthracite coal mine with real Anthracite coal coming soon.

 

Jack

You can run Conway Coal on any layout, call it what you like. I do know from doing patent research that there was a coating patent for coal storage in yard do that it was kept shiny and clean. I don't think it was ever widely used.  Thanks for using Conway Coal.

Then be sure to check out conwaycoal.com

Hot Water, as to your question would NYC be delivering Anthracite? The answer is defiantly YES! Between 1937-1947  N.Y.C. Car numbers.
403213, 403629, 820542, 825791, 833642, 833925, 837641, 848435, 860991, 862596, delivered Old Company's Lehigh and The D&H Lakawanna Anthracite to the Conway Coal yard in Greenfield MA. I have all the logs of car deliveries to the yard for 50 years. These lines also had cars deliver during this time frame.
L.N.E, D&H, P.R.R, H.B.T, B&M, B&O, R.D.G, D.L.W, Erie, N.Y.C, C&J,  Reading, LV.

Thanks for the heads up has a bounty of items that will be added to my plans.

 

Jack