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:
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>> 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.
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> 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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