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Re: [CBQ] Mexico, Missouri history and industries.

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Mexico, Missouri history and industries.
From: Christopher Meyer <cjmeyer_89@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:28:41 -0700 (PDT)
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Mike Gardner <gardnermc@earthlink.net> wrote:Chris,

The A. P. Green Company manufactured fire bricks.  They were used in a 
wide variety of stationary and marine boilers.  I'm not sure about 
railroad boilers, but it is a possibility.  I had an uncle who worked 
there in the mid 1950's.  He is, unfortunately, no longer with us to ask 
about the company.

Mike Gardner

Bill Hirt wrote:
> Christopher Meyer wrote:
> 
> 
>> I am planning a layout with the main theme being the CB&Q and the GM&O 
>> around Mexico, Missouri. Does anyone have any links, photos, maps, books, or 
>> other information on the industries in Mexico circa the late 1940's, or the 
>> Q in Central Missouri?
>>Any help is appreciated.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Chris,
> 
> The Q used trackage rights through Mexico. I do not know if they had any 
> rights to switching or serving industries in Mexico. Mainline Modeler 
> had an article in the July 1994 issue about the Wabash and GM&O 
> interlocking at Mexico. I have a collection of Mainline's for that year, 
> but that issue is somehow missing. If I remember right, it had several 
> pictures of the Mexico area from the 1960's.
> 
> Brick production was one of Mexico's major industries for many years. 
> The Wabash served a brick facility at Wellsville. The OpSig industry 
> database shows the following industries for Mexico:
> 
> 1      O/L MO      A.P. Green Industries      Mexico      MO      GMO      S: 
>      Bricks
> 1      O/L MO      Missouri Farmers Association      Mexico      MO      GMO  
>     S:      Soybean meal
> 
> I am sure there were more customers in the 1940's. I have been promised 
> for sometime (like two years) a copy of GM&O industrial directory from 
> the early 1950's. I have seen a copy on display at GM&O Historical 
> Society displays, so contacting them for this information might be a 
> good step.
> 
> Bill
> 
>Then do you have any information on the Hannibal Division's industries? I know 
>there is a lot of quarries on the line as well as grain elevators/mills, but 
>were there any manufacturing companies on the line from Old Monroe to St. 
>Louis? There is also a power plant in West Alton, but I don't know if it was 
>there in the 40s and 50s.
> Hannibal interests me a little more now that I think of it because I have 
> seen BNSF trains go by there and I have relatives that live there.
> 
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