Freight Cars

This page shows favorite pieces of equipment that run on the Wyoming Valley. Some of the equipment are "visitors" from the layouts of model railroading friends. In addition, I have grouped other cars on pages you can use the links at the left for.

	Anthracite coal is the major product being shipped on the Wyoming Valley. As a result, a fleet of hoppers is needed to serve this industry. The Wyoming Valley will have five types of hoppers on the layout. So far, only examples of three have been created and are shown below. The panel-side hopper is my favorite type of all of the hoppers. It is an Accurail kit and features only the road name and initials. The second hopper was probably never used for hauling coal. The bracing on it doesn't look like it could stand up to the abuse of hauling coal. But, I liked it since I could fit a large version of the Wyoming Valley logo on it. I got the idea for placing only the logo after seeing pictures of B&O hoppers. This is an Accurail kit of a Canton hopper. The third hopper is an Athearn peaked, offset hopper. For this model, I was able to fit the road name, a small version of the Wyoming Valley logo, and the road initials.
	This is one piece of equipment that I have painted and decaled for the Wyoming Valley, WV 82001.
	Bona Vista number 5234 is from Gerry Leone's model railroad.
	Gerry and I have a mutual friend, Dr. Jean Piquette, who operates a railroad with Pennsylvania equipment called the Cobleskill & Ballston Point. With Gerry's help, I created the logo and painted this car, CBP 1003.
	There is a story behind this car. A friend on my favorite railroad forum, Railroad-Line, asked me to come up with a logo for his brewery. His "handle" on the forum is "Dutchman". Dutchman also brews his own beer. So, I came up with this logo and used one of his family names as the name of the brewery.
	My friend Gerry became NMRA Master Model Railroader number 346. Gerry scratchbuilt four cars, one each for four friends that supported him in different ways as he completed his achievement. Shown is the one he sent me.
	OK, it is not a freight car. But, I didn't want to set up another webpage for one non-revenue car. Anyway, I have always been fascinated with snowplows, like this Walthers kit of a Russell snowplow. I was very happy to see this kit come out on the market.