Reporting Mark KOAX for Coca Cola

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Hi

Anyone here see traffic going into Coca Cola plants. I would like to see photos of cars with the reporting mark they use KOAX

Also where do I locate an all time roster for this reporting mark?

Charles Harris

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From rrpictures archives a KOAX covered hopper.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1635498

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You just happen to have a freight car historian paying attention. Here’s what I have right now (I’ll have to get some updating done to my pages one of these times!). There were no Coca-Cola cars before 1971, and the visions of toy-train sets with cars (and locomotives) adorned in red and white should be disarded immediately.

All cars owned by Coca Cola USA were built by, and originally lettered (black data only on light gray) in the style of, the General American Transportation Corporation.

The tank cars of Coca Cola U.S.A. were divided into two orders: series 18001-18131 and 28132-28166.

Cars in KOAX series 18001-18131 were removed from the roster during 1986. Following are the quantities of cars transferred to subsequent owners (specific numbers are not known):

—To the ADM Transportation Company: 60 cars, ADMX 14940-14999 (see ADM listing

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Hi Caldreamer

Thanks for the photo link. My first Coca Cola car photo/

Charles

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Hi Carl

Wow, what a reply. Everything I wanted to know. It seems their fleet was limited to tank, and airslide hoppers.

Now to find some more photos I have seen a lot of ADMX cars, I can now cross reference some of them to the original CC KOAX cars.

Regards

Charles Harris

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Hi Carl

In your post you refer to lists for ADMX GATC Cargill etc.

What is the web address for these ?

Thankyou

Charles

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Sorry about that–those would be files similar to this one, and all you’d get is a cross-reference to the information here. I deleted a bunch of those, but must have missed these.

No web address–they’re just word-processing files on my computer.