I have some waybills and other documents from the former CB&Q branch north
out of Creston to Cumberland. The paper work is from 1967 to 1971 which
is a later than you had in mind, but it looks to me like they were still
loading individual 40' boxcars. The waybills I see were primarily for
soybeans. I would guess a lot of corn was fed locally to cattle and hogs.
By type of grain here are the destinations:
Soybeans
ADM Lincoln NE
Swift&Co. Des Moines IA
Ralston Purina Kansas City
Far Mar Co St. Joseph MO
Cargill Kansas City MO
Cargill Des Moines IA
Quincy Soybean Quincy IL
ADM Galesburg IL
Corn
FGDA of Iowa Des Moines IA
Cargill Kansas City MO
Lincoln Grain Co. St Joseph MO
? Little Rock AR
Oats
Cargill Kansas City
Hope that helps some,
Stephen
-----Original Message-----
From: qutlx1@a... [mailto:qutlx1@a...]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:49 PM
To: brhslist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BRHSlist] Grain Traffic
Can anyone shed any light on where all that grain that used to move in 40
ft
box cars actually went? I'm referring to the days when every elevator on
every branch would ship cars to various "grain inspection trks" at the
larger
terminals. At Cicero/Clyde I understand the grain inspection trk was in
'D'
yard.I believe it was D-4(but I could be wrong about the specific trk.Cars
would be billed from all the local elevators to this trk but I don't know
what happened next.I assume the Cargills,Continentals,CPC,Clinton
Corn,American Maize,etc came in and bought the loads but then where did
they
go?
Of course since the late 50's,early 60's the grain goes directly into an
18
wheeler in the field and goes to the "river terminal" direct. I can speak
from first hand "research" of Q documents that it was this shift in the
business that killed many of the branch lines.
Leo
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