Re: [CBQ] Koppers Coke on the Q?

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Tom:

I can't answer your questions, but if the Q did haul coke from Koppers in the 1960s, it was probably carried in one of the GS-6 drop-bottom gons (81400-81499, built at Galesburg in 1929-30), 20 of which had their sides raised a foot when they were overhauled in 1960 (and received Chinese red paint) and assigned to coke loading service.  Attached is a view of one of them, already retired and awaiting scrapping at Eola in 1963.  Everything in the FOR COKE LOADING stenciling is legible except the company name, but the return location looks like Detroit, Mich., not St. Paul.  I have another shot of one of these cars that I can't put my hands on right now, but if I locate it I'll see if the stenciling is more legible.

Hol

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Subject: [CBQ] Koppers Coke on the Q?

 

 

Just ran across a photo in the Fall 2014 issue of Classic Trains magazine of the huge Koppers coke plant in St Paul. The photo has both a GN red gondola and an Rock Island red hopper car. I did a bit of web searching and also found info saying Illinois coal was used at Koppers.

1. How much if any of the Koppers coke moved on the Q? It would seem that some might go to the steel mills in Chicago and/or Granite City, which would mean a move to Savanna and then east or south.

2. Did any of the Illinois coal for the plant come up the Q to Koppers?

Tom Mack

Cincinnati, OH

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Posted by: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>

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CB&Q GS-6 Gon 81347, W. Eola, Ill., 10-27-1963, Joe Douda photo, Hol Wagner coll..jpg
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