Marshall
It is dangerous to say "never". The Q did use some
hoppers for engine coal. As a matter of fact the
picture behind my desk in my office, shows both
hoppers and gons being unloaded at the Galesburg coal
chute. If you will go to page 45 in BB#35, you will
see hoppers being loaded at the Valiar Mine. Also on
pages 89 and 105, you can see hoppers unloading at
Herrin Junction. In the late steam era, almost all the
"no bill" coal taken for company use was in hoppers.
Well, I'll be darned. I guess I was so used to seeing Burlington have the gons,
with the Burro filling the pockets & shunting the empties over to clean out the
ashpit, that I figured it was system wide without really questioning.
I'd been planning on handling coal/ash service with gons on my fictional Lakin
in 1944 (halfway between Hannibal & St. Louis, if that makes a difference -
going to copy the coaling tower in Corbin's K&W Across Iowa book -
Would that look wrong?
Marshall
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