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WSU Shocker Train won't stop in Great Bend
Train has already passed through town
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The Woo Shock Train, scheduled to stop Friday in Great Bend, has already stopped in town, ahead of schedule.

No train will stop Friday in Great Bend. 

Railroad officials report their car load was not as great as they anticipated.

A 262,000 pound “Wooo Shock” locomotive had been a scheduled stop in Great Bend Friday afternoon.
The Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad is a newly painted locomotive with several Shocker logos.
The decorating of the locomotive consisted of gaining permission from WSU for use of the WuShock and Go Shocks logos, hiring a local firm to produce large decals of the logos and applying the decals to the recently painted black-and-yellow, 3,000-horsepower locomotive, which was manufactured in 1974.
The locomotive “pulls angry,” much like the Shockers “play angry.”
Fortunately for Shocker fans, it won’t interfere with Friday’s scheduled 6:10 p.m. NCAA tipoff for No. 2 ranked Wichita State against Cal-Poly.
The Kansas and Oklahoma train is scheduled to stop in Great Bend around 5 p.m. at the depot — on Main Street by the Great Bend Co-op and Concrete Services.
The locomotive is pulling freight from Wichita to Colorado. The train is scheduled to make stops in Wichita, Hutchinson, Great Bend, Dodge City, Kingman and Pratt.
“We wanted something to represent the Wichita State Shockers and their great play this year,” said Jimmy Patterson, Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad general manager.
Patterson said the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad and locomotives owned by Watco Cos., have the exact same colors as Wichita State and the engine was easy to match Wichita State’s colors.
He said Watco has done similar dedications, including for Pittsburg State University. Watco is based in Pittsburg. The Kansas and Oklahoma is one of 31 railroads Watco owns and operates in 21 states and western Australia.
The Kansas and Oklahoma originates more than 800 miles of track from Wichita to Conway Springs to the south, Pratt to the west and Corinth to the north. In 2001, Watco acquired the railroad, previously known as Central Kansas Railway, from Denver-based OmniTrax.