Christopher Meyer wrote:
>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.
Chris,
All the manufacturing in that era would be along the section as the Q
went out of north St. Louis. I have some materials I will send you off
line that I think you will find helpful. If you check the society web
page, you will find the OpSig industry list culled just for the CB&Q.
The Union Electric plant opened in the middle 1960s and was the first
unit coal train on the Q.
Bill
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