coilcars

coilcars Coil Cars....
Now these are some neat cars. These cars really say "Chessie". With the C&O and B&O having the biggest and second biggest fleets of them, they need to be modeled heavily on any Chessie railroad. Coil cars are actually specialized gondolas for transporting coiled steel, but most Chessie fans recognize them as a separate type of freight car. For the purposes of this website the coil cars that were built from the ground up as coil cars are shown here. The former gondolas that were modified to also carry coiled steel are listed on the gondola page.

The Walthers kit is good, but you will need to add the "C&O" or "B&O" decals on the ends of the hoods, like I did, to be correct.

The cars below show typical hood arrangments on cars. It was not unusual to see hoods from different railroads on C&O or B&O cars. Shown below, one has a "ATSF" and one a "NYC" hood. N&W seemed to be the most common non-Chessie hood on Chessie cars, but you would be right to put any road on a Chessie car. The rest of the pics show numerous other versions of Chessie hoods.

CS-12 Class (C&O 306000-306049, 306250-306359, B&O 306050-306249)
Chessie C&O 306036 (Renumbered from a decorated kit)