From Railway Age Gazette, March 8, 1912: Walter Hunter Erskine, who has been appointed master mechanic of the Minneapolis & St. Louis, with headquarters at...
RAILWAY AGE GAZETTE. FEBRUARY 23,1912. page 361 Railway Financial News MINNEAPOLIS & ST. Louis.-W. M. Wadden, of F. H. Prince & Co., Boston, was elected a...
I have added a photo album named Coal Chutes with pictures of coal chutes and a partial map of Marshalltown. Merrill Price posted a couple of photos of a coal...
Before about 1950 the M&StL had a propensity to include a lot of correspondence in the AFEs. This material reveals, I feel, quite a bit about their thought...
The following is a list of real property owned by the M&StL as taken from the ICC Annual Report for 1937. Sorry the columns aren't straight. Gene Green ...
Doug H., Merrill P., Clark P., Sam S., et al - Thanks for your help and efforts to locate photos of Arlington and Green Isle, MN depots! Merrill especially,...
Group, Ken Secrest and I have just added an Adobe pdf file to the group files. It is a 1920 listing of M&StL Officers, Agents and Stations, which Ken recently...
I have added to Album M&STL Depots MJPrice a picture of the Arlington MN M&STL Depot.Block I will see if I can find one for Green Isle MN Merrill Price...
Gene, Thanks for posting the "Prospectus of the Iowa River Railway". Very interesting reading and I have printed it for future reference. Thanks for being...
If I post the same thing more than once please forgive me. Gene Green Sheffield Press, February 16, 1928: "Last Thursday and Friday the M. & St. L. Railroad...
I know this shold be a M&StL hopper but we didn't have the information. The CNWHS has started a modeling page and Joe Piersen has added a CNW hopper . Clark...
When I returned home from work yesterday, I noticed that UP has ripped up the rails on what they called the LuVerne Industrial Lead. The rails, plates,...
Our local hobby shop, Wood 'N Stuff, here in Oskaloosa has a lead they are following up for a Lacey depot picture. This person believes they may have a post ...
Few stones have been left unturn in the search for the Lacey depot. We have turned up an interesting lead by the name of Austin Osmond of New Sharon. Austin...
There is one major library collection that you can view online. If you don't know about the Denver Public Library collection, go to photoswest.org. There are...
Brothers, I went to the Mercantile Library in St. Louis today to research Seaboard RR files and photos. If you're not familiar with the Mercantile (I wasn't...
Does anyone have a picture of the Marietta, MN depot? I lived there from 1965 to 1968 and can vaguely remember the depot prior to it being torn down. Even...
More people than anticipated have expressed conflicts on the scheduled Oskaloosa walk-a-bout date of April 8. If enough people would prefer, I will approach...
I have not been able to locate a photo of the M&StL depot in Arlington, MN. Again, I believe there were at least two; an earlier frame one and a later ...
I had a former student who is now an attorney in St. Louis check into the Mercantile Library. I think it changed locations at about this time. Anyway he had...
List, sadly, Joe Binish chose to un-subscribe from the list early this morning. I did not ask him to do this, it was his choice. He will be sorely missed, an...
The section house in Humboldt, Iowa is still intact and inhabited. The author apologizes in advance for any political, economic, religious or cultural insults...
In a spiral bound book I have, "Abandoned Towns, Villages and Post Offices of Iowa", Norris is noted to be located in the "northeastern part of Bangor...
Gene Green in your report of the Iowa River RR on 19 Feb states a watertower at Norris. Where is Norris between Marshalltown & Eldora? Have looked all over on...
Several years ago, the "South Dakotan" (the house organ of the University of South Dakota) contained an article about an old alumnus who had a depot on his...
I just posted two photos of old passenger cars in MOW service. Both cars were spotted in the north yard at Oskaloosa in the summer of 61. Although not in...
RAILWAY AGE, December 2, 1957, page 60: "M&StL STUDIES WIDER USE OF TV "The Minneapolis & St. Louis is studying the possibility of stringing coaxial cable...
Whoa, Joe, you almost found yourself sent to the corner. You may have been one of the founders, but you are not the owner or moderator of this list. And while...
