List, I shot this Jordan Spreader at Canton, Illinois on December 8, 2012 while chasing the Keokuk Junction Railway's Santa Train. It is my understanding that...
Sam-- Do you know w here Algoma got it? If it wore C&NW colors, did Algoma buy it from the CNW? If so, could it have been from the M&StL originally? Al Dave ...
I’d like to help the Belmond museum date a photo of the inside of the M&StL depot there. Only problem, they haven’t sent me the photo! What is must notable...
Clark-- Look again at the TT CD. Eastern Division #1 Jan 14, 1912). What you are describing sounds a bit like this TT. Of course, we flying in the dark here...
Very similar to that but with a number 2. Of course the one in the photo is in much better shape : )) Clark Propst Mason City Iowa From: Alastair & Lynn Muir...
I don't have any other info on the Jordan, I don't think the builders plates were on it anymore when it was in Moron. It was an older style as it didn't have...
The employees at the Wood Lake elevator told about when the CNW was running the line that after setting out cars for the elevator they could hear the enginer...
Did you check to see if there was a calendar on the wall..Sometimes that helps...Remember that Belmond was on the Iowa Central. Dennis ... Did you check to see...
They say there’s a small 1882 calendar on the wall. But, that would pre-date the Time Table. Line was build in 1881. Besides, the building doesn’t look...
Hello group, I grew up on the Morton division of the CNW. I lived near Excelsior MN. In the 1960's, the morning and evening train was lead by two CNW GP-7s. It...
They we’re repainted, were traded in on GP30s – 62? Clark Propst Mason City Iowa From: Dennis Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 11:10 AM To: mstl@yahoogroups.com...
Dennis have you tried Sam Cook's website? http://www.sjcook.com/trains/msl/engines/mslrost.htm His notes indicate that F3's 248AC, 348AC, 448A were traded to...
CNW (ex-MSTL) F3As and F7As 400-413 (14 units) all traded in to EMD in 4-63 for GP30s CNW 810-823 on EMD Order 7653. These were CNW's first (and only) order...
I might add that the CNW stenciled unit numbers on the F unit sides. I believe other not washing them that was the only change the CNW made. Clark Propst Mason...
Thanks for the info on the F units. If the last possible time that I might have seen a M&StL F unit was 1963, then the oldest I could have been was 4 maybe 5...
One other thing they did was remove the skirting around the fuel and battery tanks on .several units. Louis ... From: cepropst <cepropst@...> To: mstl...
The M&StL had two Jordan spreaders as well as other MOW machines with the word spreader in the name. X2 built December 1923 by OFJ & retired April 1947. X5...
Mike that is a photo of X7, one of four Russell snow plows owned by the M&StL, X5-X8. X5 apparently was gone by 1959. X7 was built in 1944. I have 1959 diagram...
Mike-- There is a very extensive article in the Winter 1991 (#1) issue of North Western Lines, written by Gene Green, about all of the M&StL snow plows,...
The M&StL sold Russell Snow Plow X-5 to the Great Northern in 1956. The hand rails on the roofs of Russells X-7 and X-8 were part of the Russells as built. In...
Parts from Jordan Spreader X-5, retired in 1943, were used in the construction of M&StL snow plow X-829 so I feel fairly confident that X-5 didn't, won't,...
I updated the description thanks to your info. I had also snapped a picture a long time ago of another plowing operation in Southern Minnesota but on a CGW...
Mike, Nice shot! Always great to have the people showing, I feel. It can occasionally restrict publication possibilities but, without people, railroads would...
Group, just got 400 wheelsets (HO) from Intermountain. They had some revisions on their 2 bay hoppers but they are in production now. Also plenty of evergreen...
