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Viewing Album:  Coal hoppers and gons
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1976 - 11/14/2018
Album Info:This album includes cars used to carry coal, as well as open hoppers that once carried coal, but may now be used in MOW service.
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Hopper
Title:  Hopper
Description:  Despite the extensive use of gons for coal, there are still quite a few open hoppers in that service. This is one of three on a southbound KCS H train.
Photo Date:  7/13/2019  Upload Date: 9/17/2019 4:56:37 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  103   Comments: 0
TXUX car
Title:  TXUX car
Description:  An older TXUX car, not aluminum, rolls north on an empty train just north of Dorsey siding.
Photo Date:  11/1/2019  Upload Date: 11/5/2019 5:18:43 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  90   Comments: 0
AEPX hopper
Title:  AEPX hopper
Description:  An AEPX rotary gon southbound on a Texas bound train.
Photo Date:  3/29/2020  Upload Date: 4/4/2020 5:16:38 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  83   Comments: 1
Rotary gon
Title:  Rotary gon
Description:  Another rotary car in the southbound coal train. Note the green stripe on the rotary end. Most cars have yellow. If anyone knows why green and not yellow, please comment.
Photo Date:  3/29/2020  Upload Date: 4/4/2020 5:26:00 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  96   Comments: 1
Aluminum gon
Title:  Aluminum gon
Description:  One of AEPs aluminum gons rolls south.
Photo Date:  3/29/2020  Upload Date: 4/4/2020 5:30:23 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  82   Comments: 1
TXUX gon
Title:  TXUX gon
Description:  This car was on a northbound empty train at North Gentry
Photo Date:  9/3/2020  Upload Date: 9/7/2020 6:11:28 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  51   Comments: 1
TXUX coal gon
Title:  TXUX coal gon
Description:  Northbound on empty train
Photo Date:  9/3/2020  Upload Date: 9/7/2020 6:13:37 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  43   Comments: 1
TXUX gon
Title:  TXUX gon
Description:  Northbound on empty train
Photo Date:  9/3/2020  Upload Date: 9/7/2020 6:17:37 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  49   Comments: 1
Long train running
Title:  Long train running
Description:  A TXUX train rolls through Siloam Springs, its hoppers stretched out through the north end siding switch.
Photo Date:  11/5/2020  Upload Date: 11/24/2020 4:58:43 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  32   Comments: 1
Snaking through the switch
Title:  Snaking through the switch
Description:  The great thing about unit trains is the way they look when taking a switch or a reverse curve. Here we have a northbound empty TXUX train taking the siding at Stilwell, for what will be a rolling meet with a southbound Q train.
Photo Date:  11/12/2020  Upload Date: 11/24/2020 5:12:39 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  36   Comments: 1
San Antonio coal
Title:  San Antonio coal
Description:  This SATX car was on a northbound empty train headed back to Wyoming for more coal to feed the City Public Service Board of San Antonio.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 4/15/2021 5:29:09 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  60   Comments: 1
San Antonio coal empty
Title:  San Antonio coal empty
Description:  This empty car belonging to the City Public Service Board of San Antonio was rolling north onto the ex MP at Wagoner.
Photo Date:  4/11/2021  Upload Date: 4/15/2021 5:30:44 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  85   Comments: 1
Snaking through
Title:  Snaking through
Description:  The cars on an empty northbound TXUX train snake through Decatur on their way back to Wyoming.
Photo Date:  5/6/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 5:22:58 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  42   Comments: 1
Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Title:  Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Description:  Another empty car one the OG&E train northbound at Siloam Springs.
Photo Date:  10/25/2021  Upload Date: 12/13/2021 5:12:09 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  45   Comments: 0
Oklahopma Gas & Electric
Title:  Oklahopma Gas & Electric
Description:  Weve been seeing some OG&E trains lately, must be a new contract for KCS. They run with UP power and OGEX cars, as seen here.
Photo Date:  10/25/2021  Upload Date: 12/13/2021 4:51:15 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  42   Comments: 0
Long line
Title:  Long line
Description:  An AEPX train was arriving at the AEP Flint Creek plant in Gentry, yielding this view of the long line of loads passing under the Taylor Orchard Rd bridge.
Photo Date:  11/15/2021  Upload Date: 12/13/2021 5:14:28 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  32   Comments: 0
Five aces
Title:  Five aces
Description:  OGEX car 11111 rolls north
Photo Date:  11/30/2021  Upload Date: 12/19/2021 5:36:56 AM
Location:  Anderson, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  22   Comments: 0
Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Title:  Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Description:  An OGEX hopper northbound at Anderson MO. These trains have been showing up here recently, a relatively new development.
Photo Date:  11/30/2021  Upload Date: 12/19/2021 5:33:08 AM
Location:  Anderson, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  24   Comments: 0
Hope they dont turn on him
Title:  Hope they dont turn on him
Description:  Pac Man is chasing ghosts on this TXUX car headed south. Hope he makes it to the plant before they get him!
Photo Date:  2/6/2022  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 3:29:09 AM
Location:  Gravette, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  62   Comments: 2
Wells Fargo car
Title:  Wells Fargo car
Description:  I caught a southbound coal train with BNSF power and (mostly) these WFRX cars at Stilwell OK. Most of the time, BNSF power is pulling TXUX cars. This was unusual
Photo Date:  9/23/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 2:39:53 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  46   Comments: 1
Wells Fargo car
Title:  Wells Fargo car
Description:  A second Wells Fargo car southbound on a train with BNSF power.
Photo Date:  9/23/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 2:45:12 AM
Location:  Stilwell, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  44   Comments: 1

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