Unit Trains...Post your pics & videos here.

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I find the traditional sized Postwar cars, like the coal/ore dump cars, work well for making unit trains. Their smaller size makes for longer unit trains running through reverse loops.

Arnold

Good work...your videos keep getting better...did you get a different camera?  Fendermain

walt

Grain Train..

https://youtu.be/1j_A8Gxy_Gw

Pennsy coal drag with a pusher

How about tinplate hoppers for a unit train?

I'm currently rung 3 unit trains:

One with 18 postwar 6464 boxcars

One with 9 postwar 6414 autoloaders

One with 9 mostly LTI chemical tank cars

Putnam Division posted:

I love unit trains.

 

I have a military train; a Tropicana reefer train; a coal train; a TOFC train.......but, I dare say, there has never been a unit train like this!   

 

 

 

 

 

 

The "Fresh Fish Express"!!!!!!

 

 

Peter

Don't see anything Peter! 

Alumina Unit Train

I was familiar with unit trains as Alcoa used them from my childhood company town, to transport alumina (alumina is aluminum oxide powder which is refined from Bauxite ore and used to feed an aluminum smelter to make the metal) from the alumina refinery in Point Comfort, TX to the aluminum smelter in Rockdale, TX.  We loaded and shipped 25-30, 100 ton covered hopper cars each day, 365 d/y by unit train.

I thought it would be neat to have a unit trains for common commodities on my railroad layout.  So I made and collected some covered hopper cars used for alumina and they can be run on the layout even though I do not have an alumina refinery to load them.

The Alumina cars are from right to left, White Ormet car from Burnside, LA, two Alcoa Silver cars from Point Comfort, TX or Bauxite, AR, and Blue Reynolds car from Sherwin, TX or Bauxite, AR.  The Ormet car was homemade, the second Alcoa had a homemade individual 8 covers, and the Reynolds car has homemade cover with three hatch covers.  I have worked for these three companies (Alcoa bought Reynolds) and also Kaiser Aluminum in Baton Rouge and plant in Gramercy,LA.  I need to make a Kaiser Alumina car to complete my Alumina Unit Train.

I  made an ORMET alumina covered hopper car although they leased their cars.

I bought a Reynolds Metal covered hopper car without the 12 roof hatch covers.  I made a more modern, easy to use center fill cover for the car. 

Charlie

In honor of 4014 returning to the rails, I called out 4012 to move an intermodal unit train.

Fendermain posted:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I find the traditional sized Postwar cars, like the coal/ore dump cars, work well for making unit trains. Their smaller size makes for longer unit trains running through reverse loops.

Arnold

Good work...your videos keep getting better...did you get a different camera?  Fendermain

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 smartphone camera for the past 2 years. Very pleased with it.

Union Pacific grain train on the S&Y RR pulled by Heritage locomotives.

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Fendermain posted:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I find the traditional sized Postwar cars, like the coal/ore dump cars, work well for making unit trains. Their smaller size makes for longer unit trains running through reverse loops.

Arnold

Good work...your videos keep getting better...did you get a different camera?  Fendermain

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 smartphone camera for the past 2 years. Very pleased with it.

Some of the unit trains running on my layout:

Grain train

Coal train

Pipe train

Boxcars

Tom

Rusty

The daily Brewer's Limited on the Free State Junction Railway.

I actually have a 2nd layout squeezed into a closet opposite Warrenville.

Two levels; the top level loops into my workshop through two tunnels openings, the bottom is a tight O27 loop. Here I am running a unit train of giraffe cars.

Western Maryland all boxcar Merchants Limited.