Nolen,
maybe some specific questions would help jog loose some other memories. For
instance, modern pictures of the plant show what looks like a concrete
elevator at the south end. My Sanborn map and a 1943 photo I just received
seem not to have the elevator. Do you remember it being there in the 1960s?
The track plan for the plant is fairly simple. There is a siding that runs
down the river side of the plant. There is another that runs between the
buildings through the centre of the plant. Both originate at the old CRIP
track and connect again on the CB&Q track heading up the creek to the tracks
on the top of the bluffs. Each siding may have had a spur or two coming
from it and different times. I think that there would need to be a place
for cars (boxcars or covered hoppers) to unload corn for processing. There
would also have to be a place for tankcars to be loaded with corn syrup and
for boxcars to be loaded with (I think) powdered sweeteners. One of the
things I'm trying to determine was which tracks served which purposes.
Another general question -- with a large plant like this which received
strings of cars, would the switch engine have to return to the plant each
time a car was finished being loaded (or emptied) and push the string of
cars along so the next one could be attended to? I don't see evidence of
facilities to load (or empty) more than a car at a time. Or, does someone
remember an engine being assigned to Hubinger most of the time?
Thanks as always.
Duncan
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Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Hubinger in Keokuk, Iowa
> Duncan,
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> Near as I can remember from back in the 1960's there was almost nothing
but
> tank cars painted & lettered for Hubinger "OK' brand corn syrup. I don't
> remember any of the plant/track layout though.
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> Nolen
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