Friends, The first-ever St. Louis Railroad Prototype Modeler's Meet will be held Saturday, August 21st at the Katy Cavins Recreation Center, 308 East 5th...
Childhood friend Loyd Buchanan was in town for a visit and stopped over for awhile. We were rememinising about watching the M&StL pulling reefers every night...
Clark, I assume you mean the Decker Plant in Mason City :) One of the photo's I found at the MC Library, when blown up shows a Hygrade Mather reefer on the...
Hey gang-- I have just come into possession of a very small brass key marked M&StL RR--B&B Dept. It looks like a miniature switch padlock key. Does anyone...
Al- B&B is Bridge & Building Department. It could have been used on a section building, a tool box, equipment. Anything they had, that might need to be...
We are losing another segment of M&StL mainline, albeit small. The Gold-Eagle Cooperative is abandoning all the track at their elevator in Livermore, Iowa....
Mention of the Livermore Iowa Elevator brings back sad memories. Many years ago my Step-Mothers Brother-in-Law and his young Grandson were delivering grain to...
The mention of Livermore losing its last remnant of the M&StL brings up memories . Visiting Uncle Lawrences farm south of town and watching the Rock Island...
Today I spent some time with Dana Grefe and Dick Steffen at the FDDM&S freight house in Boone moving boxes of NorthWestern Lines upstairs in order to make room...
There was at least one death in the Livermore grain elevator explosion. The gentleman's name was Taylor and he was in the café which faced the elevator on...
Yes, it would be my guess that the depot and roundhouse were Ft Dodge and Ft Ridgeley properties. The Humboldt Library had the drawings for three proposed...
... Vern- Certainly the major portion is physically indeed gone. Can't argue with this fact. But I can't help thinking that interesting recollections such as...
My friend Jim Reuber gave me a copy of the ICC report on the wreck at Arnold (south of Livermore) in 1917 that Kurt Stobe mentions. The TT speed for passenger...
Does anyone know where the Fort Dodge and Fort Ridgeley planned on building to before the MStL bought up the line? Is there a place in Iowa that was called...
... building to before the MStL bought up the line? Is there a place in Iowa that was called Fort Ridgeley? Just a few questions that I wonder about whenever I...
I remember Dad mentioning a creek in the area of LuVerne/Livermore somewhere that was called "Bloody Run" as the result of a Psgr train derailment. Anyone...
Just read in Dick Wilson's Brass Switchkey railnews the following proposal from member Nick Pitsch for an M&StL Depot book. Having seen Nick's slide ...
Thanks Dennis. I kind of wondered if it was the fort just down river from me, but didn't realy think a small line would have picked such a place to build to....
The M&STL Depot Book would be a great memorial to Vaughn Ward. GreatIdea Doug. The CNWHS does not have the CD's - Nick keep us posted on this idea and will try...
Had the pleasure of meeting Gene Green by the CNW tables at the annual Galesburg Railroad Days Train Show. We had a nice vist and talked about getting some...
Saturday, I was over to Chapin and Sheffield, Iowa, and noted the rail has been removed between Chapin and Sheffield. Much of it remains stacked in various...
The Evening Tribune Albert Lea, Minnesota May 28, 1921 TWO LOCAL SECTION MEN ARE INSTANTLY KILLED NELS HAGEN AND BERNT EVENSON MEET DEATH AT NOON TODAY WHEN...
Several months ago someone wrote about the effort to use the MStL main from Oakville to Keithsburg as a grain loading facility. That person also referred to...
Cast iron "W" with a back stamped "M&StL" is available. These were common on many M&StL lines - particularly so on the branch lines in north Iowa and...
is 457 the engine in East Park? ... From: Gene Green<mailto:lewise_green@...> To: mstl@yahoogroups.com<mailto:mstl@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July...
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