Bill, Ted and others
There use to be a company in Ottumwa with the name Ottumwa Box Car Loader Co.
They built special elevators which loaded the ends of the cars both box and yes
in a pinch stock cars. It pivetoed into the car. My Stephen-Adamson Co. (of
Aurora) has a portable elevator used to place the coal into the coal storage
bunks. Many are still visible along both the Aurora to Galesburg Mainline and
along Rt. 47 the old Fox and Illinois Union interurban. The Photos show CB&Q
_6736. There are also Power Shovels in the cat which would help pull the coal or
grain out of the cars. And then in an era before gyms a common pasttime was
WORK. One of the now retired dispatchers use to tell of his first job off the
farm was unloading coal at the local elevator. Again in an era when you could
get teenagers to work.
In my research there is as much materal on coal mines north of Beardstown as
what
was published in Bulletin 35 if not more. Problem for me is the 1000 mile
commute to finish the research
Steve Holding
dhelec@a... wrote:
>
> In the Coalfields issue of the "Bulletin" it wa mentioned how the Q would use
> boxcars for hauling coal. Which boxcars were primarily used for this and when
> wold this practice have been abolished?
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