Hi, I watched my B&W movie but I didn't see any coaling trestles, I could have missed it. I did see several nice coaling towers. Unless there are different...
Is this what you are looking for? I remember it well. It was about 2 blocks from my home in Oskaloosa. I remember one in Beacon also. That is all I can...
A restaurant in Gowrie had a big picture of the local coaling trestle. This was 30 years ago or so so suppose it is long gone. If I remember the story I...
Mr. Cook and group, The type of coaling trestle I have been talking about is what was used to fill steam engine tenders. They had the long trestle type ramp up...
Brian, Have you checked out Joe Follmar's "Locomotive Facilities C&NW and CStPM&O: Fuel and Water Stations"? Excellent drawings for the Johnson- and ...
... From: "brigayle" <brigayle.com@...> To: <mstl@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:03 PM Subject: [mstl] RE: coaling trestle...
Russell Derickson
dericksr@...
Apr 4, 2002 2:38 am
1706
Oops - sorry for the finger click slip RussD...
Russell Derickson
dericksr@...
Apr 4, 2002 3:01 am
1707
The first train ran on the line that is now called the Minnesota Prairie Line today. It is the Norwood to Hanley Falls line of the former pacific extention....
I forgot to mention that the train made it from Norwood to Winthrop so far with no problems. Tomorrow they will run the rest of the way to Morton were the...
... From: "Russell Derickson" <dericksr@...> To: <mnrail@...> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:37 PM Subject: MNRail: work on MPL near...
Russell Derickson
dericksr@...
Apr 4, 2002 1:56 pm
1710
Following are abandonment dates I have for the M&StL line west of Hopkins; all lines were abandoned by C&NW after the 11/1/1960 merger, unless otherwise noted....
Trestle in Sam's photo is to load coal hauled by dump trucks from local mines into rail cars. Some of these ramps (the M&StL's term) were originally built for ...
Group, It is my understanding that the ballast will come fromn a quarry near Morton. It will be trucked a couple of miles to town and reloaded into the...
... brian, what the photo is, from sam's fine web site, is what i call a coal loading platform. do not know if this is the correct term for this. this was a...
... Oskaloosa is in the middle of lots of old soft coal (strip) mines. They once had many miles of rail serving the mines directly, but over the years, those...
Clark The freight car diagram book I have shows 32 cars in the 67001-67063 series. These were three bay 70 ton hoppers built by the C&O in 1956. I believe...
Hello all, This month seems to be a good month for M&StL articles in magezines. The May 2002 Railfan & Railroad has an article by Bob Lunoe with some great pix...
Bill is correct these are most excellent articles. I have to say in front of everyone that at the Naperville meet last fall Joe asked if I had any M&StL flat...
Wow! The article in Railfan was great! Almost wants me want to try to bash one of the 2-8-2s! But since I'm modelling 53, I don't need steam. Thanks for the...
I concur. The magazine articles by Joe Binish and by Bob Lunoe were outstanding and I want to thank them both for the enjoyment I received in reading them. ...
Brian, Sorry for misleading you. I know there's an elevated track of some kind in the older movie. It goes uphill to the left of the train as the photographer ...
According to the Des Moines Register, May 28, 1995, "With the closing of the American Coal Company's strip mine near Knoxville (Marion County), coal mining is...
I concur the articles were both great. I thought the photo's of the model flatcar were esp well done :) I also was amazed to learned that a C&O articulated...
Mr. Green and group, You asked for input for your M&STL plan books you are making up from the AFE's. I will put in my two cents worth; Since it is going to be...
On this list there was some discussion of coal trestles earlier - the kind where loaded cars are pushed up a ramp to drop coal into overhead bins from which...
