1st, 4 tidbits I omitted from Part 3: The RI car was a stock car of sheep
going to Sperry, IA & the Wabash was bags of corn to Knoxville, IA. (bagged
mean seed corn?). Q box 44789 was taking scrap paper from Morrell (odd load
from a packing plant) to Peoria and 120561 was taking bottles to St. Paul.
Now for Jan. 1943 to Dec. 1945:
There were 15 Q frt cars, 1 MoW, a C&S (box #14487 w/Co. Matl's to Ottumwa
R.H.) and diesel #9355, a Baldwin swtr (the agent used the word "diesel"
with loco # as I imagine it was a novelty at the time). The Q frt cars
included 114183 with Co. Mdse to Creston &15585 with mdse off the Des Moines
local, 12512 with Soda Ash to the treatment plant and 21148 with "sugar
iron" also to the treatment plant. Have no idea what was meant by sugar
iron and as mentiond in earlier installments, I assume the Q had a water
treatment plant in Ottumwa? Q Box 31927 had bagged sugar & box 132914 had
bagged lime. Q Mow #258520 had Co. Matl's. C&S #14487 had Co. Mdse for the
R.H.
50 cars from 32 Foreign roads: PRR-5; NYC-4; UP & GN 3 ea; 2 ea for CRI&P,
Alton, C&NW, L&N, Southern, DL&W & MoPac. 1 ea from Pere Marquette, New
Haven, BAR (beans from Knoxville), DL&W (barrels of whiskey from Hiram
Walker), SL&SF (am auto box with trucks), Mich Central (Soda Ash for Swain
Co.), WP (syrup leaking from a box car), Louisiana & Arkansas, NC&StL,
M&StL, ACL (shell casings to Ordinance plant @ Burlington), Boston & Albany,
MKT, SP, AT&SF, WAB, D&RG, WM, Erie, T&P and Milw. 1 PRR was soda ash going
to Albia, 1 B&O was Q mdse from the Ott frt house, 1 Sou was wool to
Chicago, 1 GN was grain from Donnellson, IA and the other was lime to the
Q's Ottumwa store house. One of the MoPacs & 1 of the NYC were box cars
described as "to pumper for Co. lime to Creston". Why foreign cars for
loading to & from the Q apparently for water treatment?
Private owners had 14 cars: 2 ea. PFE & FGE and 1 ea. WFE, National Car
#1662, Armour, NADX, MDT, PTX (Penn-Conley Tank Line - a subsidiary of Gen.
American), & Northern Refrig.
There were also, on separate occaisions, 3 PPKX (poultry subsidiary of No.
American) - all needed water in water tanks - the fleet of such cars during
WWII was over 100 from No. American alone.
Gerald A. Edgar
230 W. 5th St.
Garner, IA 50438-1404
(641) 923-2573
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