I like grain trains...

like this...

 

Nice pic, your layout?

Reminds me of the BNSF runs here in Spokane only swap out the grey cars for the maroon BNSF flagged ones

 

I love grainers too, but I prefer the trains of the 70's that had the colorful hoppers of the private grain companies in the mid-west mixed in. The "worm" trains on BNSF are kinda boring to me.

 

yes my layout. old pic though.

 

Baqck in the 70s their werent enough grain hoppers to handle the demand and the C&O had these tarps that looked like something out of a circus they used to cover coal hoppers loaded with grain. Wish there was a picture somewhere....

 

Great pic!

If I had a train that long, it would run into itself. I would love to run the longer cars, but with the small space I have for my layout, short cars work better.

 

Nicely done photo. The depth is impressive.

Um, mind if we post our own grain train pics here?

 

I LIKE TURTLES.

 

I like Zombies

 

Yes , post em up. That was the idea anyways.

 

A CP grain train passes "The Old Grandure" yards coming with the green light to the coast:

 

I like the Saskatchewan cars. Are they PWRS? Rare. I've never seen them less than $30.00. Are the rest of those Intermountain? I have a bunch of those Canada cars , they are sweet. Good lookin consist.:thumbs_up:

 

OT:
He looks like how I felt this morning when I woke up to go to work....:tb-shocked:

 

Seems today unit trains are the thing. We have unit trains for coal, grain, trash, intermodal and probably some others that I am missing. But unit trains are not new. Back in WWII unit trains of tankcars were employed to move oil from Texas to the East coast. Far safer than to risk a tanker getting torpedoed by a U boat [the submarine kind].

 

Here's my earthworm

 

Hmmmmm, no wonder my wheat bread had a blackish tint to it when I was a kid.

 

Not a pic but a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FImqxEkdffE





here's a pic.. kinda..

 

Disclosure: I once worked for PWRS. I left PWRS on amicable terms but encourage folks here to use etailors that advertise on trainboard as all of them are excellent.

Yes and yes. The Saskatchewan cars are PWRS - only they make them as they have been granted the sole copyright to them. Also fare to note is that they are "Hawker Siddley" cars which only PWRS produces in N Scale.

The rest are IM purchased before I worked for PWRS. Yes they are very attractive. Ostensibly PWRS will be coming out with their own versions of those as Hawker Siddley cars:
PWRS Pacific Western Rail Systems

If you want the Hawker Siddley cars by all means get them from PWRS, (the only source I know of). They are very well done in terms of details and accuracy. For other products I encourage you to use advertisers on trainboard.

 

Those aren't grain hoppers, they are cement and other heavy bulk type hoppers.