Archie Hayden is correct. St. Louis & Hannibal 1413 was from the NYC
System. Owner John Ringling purcased a number of locomotives & over
1,000 from the NYC System. When the St. Louis & Troy RR started in 1933
on 5 miles of former St. Louis & Hannibal track between Troy and Moscow
Mills it leased # 1413 until a gas mechanical Vulcon was purchased on
the used market. 1413 returned to the St. Louis & Hannibal after its
service on the Troy Line.
The St. Louis, Hannibal & Keokuk was chartered in July 1872. It was
purchased & renamed the St. Louis & Hannibal in December 1885 by John
Insley Blair of Blairstown, NJ.
Archie is correct about the #270. It belonged to the Northeast
Missouri Sand & Gravel Co. This company owned several grave pits. In
1925 an article in "The Hannibal Courier-Post" noted that John
Ringling, owner of the St. Louis & Hannibal, had sponsored this
organization and was a stockholder & director. Vice-president was W.C.
Ramsay who was general manager of the St.L.&H. St.L.&H. attorney J. D.
Hostetter was a director of the gravel company. # 270 was in the scrap
line at the St.L.& H.'s shops at Oakwood, MO, a suburb of Hannibal.
Conrad Cheatham, Friends of the Short Line
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