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- Congress enacted the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and we must now note that these ARE NOT TOYS, AND ARE NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY CHILDREN UNDER AGE OF 14. These products are Model Railroad Equipment and Accessories intended for use by adults.
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'blue coal'
Released August 2008
2-Bays are equiped with Hay Bros Blue Coal Loads (#700-18 w/ different profiles)
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Here is a Special Full Throttle "Collector Pack #1" hopper release for August 2008! A wonderful 33' Offset-Side "Billboard" Hopper Car Set honoring the Anthracite Industry! It is a "Collector 4-pk." with four Rail Lines represented as distributors of this unusual commercial coal fabrication. Hay Bros. Garage created the realistic 'blue coal' loads and as always, the cars are weighted and equipped with knuckle couplers. The four Rail Lines represented are: DL&W, CNJ, NH, and RDG. Please note the pricing on this one-time Collector 4-pk. Set.
What in the heck is 'blue coal'?
Let me tell you a condensed story about 'blue coal'! Anthracite is a dense, hard, shiny-black, smokeless, clean-burning, coal mined in Pennsylvania and perfectly suited for home-heating. As early as 1928, for a distinguishing feature and marketing ploy, the Glen Alden Coal Co. of Ashley, PA, sprayed the nuggets with a blue colorant as they tumbled down the loading chutes from their huge, historic Huber Breaker. During the 30's and 40's, 'blue coal' was the sponsor of the popular early radio show, "The Shadow," starring detective Lamont Cranston, whose voice was eventually dubbed by Orson Wells! Thus, 'blue coal' became an enormously popular commodity for keeping warm in the cold Winters of the burgeoning urban and rural areas of America's East Coastal States! And so it remained until the advent of natural gas and fuel oil for domestic heating, well after WW II into the 1950's. In honor of these inventive entrepreneurs, FT pays tribute to the Anthracite Industry using Z Scale models of 33' open offset-side "billboard hoppers" adorned with the original 'blue coal' logo, and represented by several of the major Rail Lines that distributed this unique, ubiquitous product throughout the Northeastern USA!
Hay Bros has created the very realistic 'blue coal' loads.
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