Last night I created a coal load for my ( new to me ) Weaver 3 bay hopper. I used a piece of dark styrofoam cut to the size of the car's opening, spread some foam glue over the entire service, then sprinkled scenic coal over the glue. Looks good to me. The only thing I could have done better is perhaps shaped some modeling putty and attached it to the center of the styrofoam so the coal would have a piled look in the center. The cool thing is that this newly created load has a different look when compared to other coal hoppers in my collection. I'm sure there was a prototypical flat load at times ... LOL!
After the coal load I fixed a broken coupler on one of other Weaver 50 ton hoppers .... in-other-words I glued it shut. It now works great!
Tinkered with some scenery just a bit, changed out a locomotive and some cars on two of the trains.
I did all this as I ran trains for a little over an hour last night and certainly enjoyed my time with the trains!
First thing this morning I ran trains for about 15 minutes. Great time!! 
