How to utilize the 'Jimmy' Coal cars

[Sampug394]

I've downloaded the Awesome old Jimmys from steamdrivre, but I'm slightly curious:

What's the best way to use them?

Obviously in an old setting, but what Coal buildings should I use? Powerplants with Cooling towers are a little too modern for them, so Where exactly should the coal be hauled to?

Thanks,

Sampug394

 

[cascaderailroad]

It would be nice to see a screenshot, or a link to Steamdrivre' site, so we cold take a lookie see at them. I have no idea what "Jimmies" are, but I guess you put them on ice cream cones like Chocolate Sprinkles ?

I looked on DLS and they look like turn of the previous century, narrow gauge, or back woods stuff, never traveling very far from a coal tipple...I think they were not for interchange, and stayed on the company roads only, and you would never see anything like that on interchange branchlines, and never on mainlines, after 1900.

They do look perfect for my Wopsy RR era 1897, and coal tipple service around mines.

 

[Sampug394]

I looked on DLS and they look like turn of the previous century, narrow gauge, or back woods stuff, never traveling very far from a coal tipple...I think they were not for interchange, and stayed on the company roads only, and you would never see anything like that on interchange branchlines, and never on mainlines, after 1900.

They do look perfect for my Wopsy RR era 1897, and coal tipple service around mines.

...As I figured, they're good for old stuff. But for some Far-Fetched Reason, they aren't even Loading coal! In game it tells me it's a Config error, but it tells of no Errors in the CMP...

 

[Pencil42]

More on Jimmies:
They were very common up until the turn of the century; at their peak in 1871, John White says there were on the order of 55,000 in the US. They were scrapped by around 1900; not a single one has survived.
Just about everyone used coal at that time, especially in industrialized regions. Factories would use it to power their machinery, buildings would use it for heat, mines and mills would use it fire their boilers. Factories would probably have their own siding to receive coal; there would also be coal years where coal would be transferred to wagons for small deliveries. Here's a pic of such a transfer yard. Although it's a bit later than the jimmy era, I would expect the designs didn't change much. http://www.shorpy.com/node/5606
White also mentions that some of the trains got fairly large - he mentions one train on the LV in 1891 of 225 jimmies, and one a few years earlier (1879?) of 593 jimmies.

Curtis
(Data from White's "The American Railroad Freight Car")

 

[Sampug394]

More on Jimmies:
They were very common up until the turn of the century; at their peak in 1871, John White says there were on the order of 55,000 in the US. They were scrapped by around 1900; not a single one has survived.
Just about everyone used coal at that time, especially in industrialized regions. Factories would use it to power their machinery, buildings would use it for heat, mines and mills would use it fire their boilers. Factories would probably have their own siding to receive coal; there would also be coal years where coal would be transferred to wagons for small deliveries. Here's a pic of such a transfer yard. Although it's a bit later than the jimmy era, I would expect the designs didn't change much. http://www.shorpy.com/node/5606
White also mentions that some of the trains got fairly large - he mentions one train on the LV in 1891 of 225 jimmies, and one a few years earlier (1879?) of 593 jimmies.

Curtis
(Data from White's "The American Railroad Freight Car")

Absolutely Brilliant Sir!