Bill,
You are correct. Interchange to the UP was usually at Hastings NE.
The empties went directly back via Sioux City in regular train
service. Many times they would be moved on the locals that ran
between Willmar and St Cloud and St Cloud and Brook Park avoiding
Northtown completely. That mill no longer makes steel so no ore
trains.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: William Ewinger
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 03 September, 2005 19:48
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Ore Cars on the "Q"
some of the ore trains came through burlington iowa west bound for a steel
mill i belive in utah and if the had a couple of the dmir sd9 there was no
touble climbing the burlington hill but this took place after the merge and a
bridge at souix city was not heavy enough to handle the trains.
bill ewinger
robert runty <brjr51@yahoo.com> wrote:
I shot photos of the DM&IR car trains in Savannah during the early BN era in
late May, early June. I assume these were headed to US Steel in Gary. Were they
then handed off to the J at Eola?
Bob Runty
thommack <thommack@yahoo.com> wrote:
If you are talking about the solid trains of ore jennies, those would
have been either GN or DM&IR (solid consists, not mixed). The DM&IR
cars were bound for steel mill complexes owned by the same steel
company that owned the DM&IR (can't recall off hand whose - I've got
the info at home). The GN cars went to a different set of steel mills
around Chicago. I first thought that these trains only ran during the
winter when the Great Lakes froze over, but there is a shot of one of
these trains (a GN consist) that was shot on a hot day in June or
July, so they apparently ran whenever needed.
BTW, the Walthers ore cars are right on for these cars. I run a solid
GN set on my Savanna to Chicago line in 1967/68 (around "The Horn" of
course).
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Steve Doyle <doylesteve19@y...> wrote:
> Does anyone know which roads' ore cars might be found running on Q
trackage in the late-50's-early-60s? I know a few pictures exist in
the usual books, but it doesn't seem clear whose cars they were.
> Many thanks,
> Steve Doyle
> Wayzata, MN
>
>
>
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