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Coal hauling on a transitional western layout
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<P>Add to this 2,000 UCR (Utah Coal Route) drop-bottom gons, owned 50-50 by UP and Utah Railway.</P> <P>Rio Grande also moved a lot of coal in boxcars as late as the Korean War. Most Colorado and Utah mines were equipped with box-car loading machinery. A lot of customers liked to get the high-priced lump coal in boxcars because they served as a theft-proof storage container both en-route and while the car was parked on their spur, finding it cheaper to pay the demurrage while the coal was slowly dispensed by the wagon- or truck-load than to build a storage facility and hire a guard to keep the coal from disappearing every night. Rio Grande liked it because it was a nice income source for per diem and demurrage. </P> <P>The midwest coal roads, particularly the Illinois and Indiana coal roads (CB&Q, MILW) moved a lot of coal in hoppers because they had large industrial customers in Chicago and the other Great Lakes industrial cities. But the Far West coal roads, with the exception of UP, were almost pure drop-gon roads until the late 1950s.</P>
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