A couple of wagons for the future "coal hole".

Only light weathering (so far); the coal is real, collected from an abandoned surface working above the town of Graissessac, Languedoc, France. The sieving process is not quite right, the scale "lumps" are possibly too small to be prototypical.

I should add that Graissessac is almost a ghost town since the mines were closed. I understand from friends who live nearby that many of the miners were Polish. One of the ironies of the area is that wind turbines have been erected on one of the old surface workings. The valley would make an interesting French layout with either steam or diesel motive power, depending on the era.