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Tom,
The attached consist is from July 3, 1965. You will see ore cars
moving to Cadet MO. That was the junction on the MP mainline to
their branch to the new Pea Ridge Ore Mine located on the MP south
of St. Louis. The MP built a new branch to service the mine. This
was a deep ore mine and the ore quality was very high. The MP
society did a bulletin on operations there.
Of course the question is why was ore moving to an ore mine? The
answer I gathered from some old head MP employees was that these
ore moves were used to calibrate the machinery at the new mine
that determined the richness of the ore that was being shipped
out. Note all of the ore shipped in was in gondolas. Most of the
ore that moved out this mine was shipped to Bethlehem Steel.
Bill Hirt
On 5/29/2021 3:32 PM, Tom Mack via
groups.io wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 02:34 PM, Fred Crissey wrote:
The only other move I can think of is some iron ore
(in regular hopper cars) moved out of the Ostrander, MN area to
the St. Louis area via CGW-CBQ. This was not a high quality ore
and the moves were irregular at best. I do not where the
junction was (Dubuque or Galena Jct.). These could have lasted
until the CGW/CNW merger and then it would have moved CNW
direct. The mines closed finally in about 1970.
Thanks Fred. Your post prompted me to join the CGW IO Group to
discuss this topic. The Hanna Mine in Ostrander, MN that supplied
this ore closed in May 1967, which is still my era. But an answer
posted to my question about CGW to CB&Q interchange of this
ore seems to indicate that other than perhaps a move in the early
1960's, all the ore was moving down to the Alton, IL area by CGW
to IC interchange in South Freeport, IL.
That's not what I was hoping to hear, so I thought I would ask
this group if anyone recalls seeing any photos, wheel reports, or
whatever of some of these CGW (and other roads) hopper cars of ore
interchanged to the Q in the 1965-1967 time frame?
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CB&Q No 61 Hann Eng 949 July 3 1965.pdf
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