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I use crushed coal. It can be found about anywhere. As was mentioned it lays along the tracks when it falls from trains. The thing I don't care for is the mess when you have a derailment. I had a kadee coupler hose catch on a switch track and over went four hoppers spilling the loads of coal. While it kinda looked neat it tends to be hard to clean up, and my wife doesn't see the humor in using the vaccum for what I can't get out of the grassy areas. I thought of gluing it in the cars but told myself NOOOOO. So I used a piece of styrene cut to the hopper size and layed it in the hopper and glued coal on that to make coal loads. The placed them in all the other hoppers. This only goofed up one hopper with marks from prying the glued loads out. I used an old grappy hopper not a good one.
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