Show Us Your Coal Hoppers

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Here is my N/S coal drag of 17 cars.

Joe B.

Some intermountain 2 bay kits, and an MTH (I think) twin bay hopper.

On one of the Intermountain kits I removed the lettering and added Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf decals. The KO&G became part of the Missouri Pacific Lines.

Dan

Here a pair of MTH MoPac U30C's pull a coal train.

Scott Smith

Here's a few of my Western Maryland I have about 160 in different number's ,I have other road name's to not on track yet .

Guy 

On the RR.

Here are some just weathered

Just finished these last night...

K-Line & Lionel die cast hoppers.

Well here a nice video of the PRR Y-3 pulling a nice Coal drag.

 Just picked up the PRR Y-3 this week still have to weather it when we get back from 

 York.

I have the complete 22 car set of Atlas H21a hoppers in brown with the circle keystone.  I'm working on my second set to have one train taking coal to the power plant and one taking empties back to the coal mine.  Great looking cars. 

CentralFan 197,

Great weathering job!

Matt

Great photos.

Thanks Matt and Spence! 

It means a lot.

Like a lot of guys, I'm a hopper guy!  I prefer 2-bay open and covered hoppers; but its the interiors that get me excited!

Thanks,

- Mario

I don't have any photos, but here is a video of my PM Coal hoppers.  

I only have 5... they are kind of hard to find.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTZ3JLZ1DwA

A On30 scratch built wooden coal hopper count???

Here's a few:

Peter

Mike, I like the Montour and P&S hoppers!  Nice Western Pennsylvania look!

Sweet!

Love the interior!

It sure does count, Dave!!  Looks like a great job too!!

How in the world do you keep from tripping over the track.  At my house, I would be the first one to do it.    Nice run!!

Well, probably not exactly fitting in with all these very nice scale hoppers, but....

MTH 2-bay offset hopper car set number 20-90326 (2006 Volume 2)

These cars will be used with my scratchbuilt "Continental Coal Company" coal tipple.

Thanks Mark!  The layout has been down so long, the family is used to it.  I DO get a grumble every now and then from the wife, but she is very supportive of my hobby!

Repainted MPC...

And then there's this thing...

Here is mine and yes you do see a CB&Q U25B pulling the N&W coal drag.

MTH N&W

Weaver N&W

Atlas N&W H21

Atlas Southern AAR

In an earlier post to this topic I mentioned I was working on my second set of Atlas' PRR H21a hoppers with the circle keystone.  Well, no more.  Thanks to Beth at Public Delivery Track, I found the last 4-car set I needed to complete the 22-car series.  Thanks Beth!

Nice idea for a thread, boin106!  Although I haven't taken an official count, hoppers are probably second only to boxcars on my freight car roster.  Here are a couple of not-so-highly-detailed Weaver 2-bay coal hoppers that I weathered and added coal loads in an effort to improve their appearance...