Leo,
In a very, very belated reply to the question of whether or not the car
track report lists for LaSalle show where the coal came from, the answer is
no. There's a strong possibility it came out of Fulton County mines. I
believe coal from that area also went to the cement plant at Dixon, Ill. and
was probably interchanged to the IC at Mendota. I saw some pictures of and
IC train taken in the late 60's near Mendota and it had Q loaded coal
hoppers in it. In Mike Spoor's freight car book they're a couple of shots
showing loaded Q hoppers waiting at Mendota. I know for sure Q hoppers went
to the cement plant at Dixon (was Medusa Cement in the 70's) account I
always saw some in the plants little holding yard there on the way to
Galesburg. I took some photos of them once.
Sorry about the long response time. I was finally getting around to
cleaning house in my email bin.
Thanks for filling us in on National Sheet Metal.
Ken
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> Ken,Thanks for the info.It was just added to the waybill data base for my
> layout.
> Do the lists show where the coal originated?
> The notation of National Sheet metal is probably correct but there was a
Div
> of this company in Aurora called National Metal Wares. It was located off
the
> West Batavia line near Illinois Ave. I had an Uncle who worked there 40
plus
> years and one day he mentioned that they used to ship cars of metal pipe
from
> Aurora to LaSalle but went to trucking due to the eratic delivery. He
> commented that they could have the pipe in the LaSalle plant in a couple
hrs
> by truck but never knew for sure when it would get there by rail and 7
days
> was not uncommon.
> I would offer that as a prime example of how all the business departed the
> rails.
>
> Funny,in reading the customer complaints in the current rail industry
trade
> publications the complaint is still the same,one shipment arrives in 4
days
> the next one takes a week. No consistency of service.
> Leo
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