Reply to "Tender coal bunker levels"

I modified every tender of the coal burning steam locomotives I had, in one way or another. Some with only about 1/4 of the coal remaining in the bunker, so that the forward portion was "down to the stoker auger", while one or two others had totally full, i.e. heaped up high, as the Burlington was prone to do. Those few Lionel steam models with the die cast "coal load", had the die cast "coal load" cut out and a coal bunker constructed for a much more realistic coal load.