Hi Roger
just before world war is when the iowa army ammunition plant was
constructed.sometime dring the war or shortly there after the aec moved in and
start build something.i been told it was the war heads for missle.the aec left
in about 1970 moving to texas from.day and zimmerman were the original general
contractor for building the plant.th railroad had a problem in that everything
was beening ship in on the eastern freight rate but that rated stop in downtown
burlington.contractor would not except billing to danville as that was to for
west.so we shorted the contractors name to dayman to make the junction and
billing point.and like lenny said the used the general pershing power unit to
pull the train-gaurd car-atomic cars-and caboose.the train did not last into
the burlington northern days very long because of the closing.all the above
information is all second what i hhave been told or read here or other places.
bill ewinger
Kujawa's <xark@bwsys.net> wrote:
Hi Bill:
Some one at the Peoria swap mentioned the plant just west of Burlington.
I'm not even sure the train had nuclear material, that is what the
dispatcher told me.
Thanks!
Roger
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:26:20 -0800 (PST)
From: William Ewinger <b_ewinger@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: TPW - Q Nuclear train
HI ALL
it sound like the cars that use to operator out of the ammunitions plant
at middle town iowa but i don;t know where they went east of burlington
bill ewinger
Kujawa's <xark@bwsys.net> wrote:
Hi everyone:
Does anyone have any info on the Nuclear train that ran on the TPW and the Q
through Peoria. It ran in the sixties and right after the BN merge but I
don't know for how long.
Some one mentioned that it might have been going to the munitions plant in
Burlington Iowa or to the Armory in Rock Island.
I talked to Monty Powell an ex TPW dispatcher but he only knew it as Nuclear
material. He didn't know if it was weapons or something else.
The silver cars were approximately 50' long. I can't make out the reporting
marks on the cars but they used a buffer between occupied cars and engines.
They also carried armed guards to protect the cargo.
Thanks in advance!
Roger Kujawa - Morton, Il.
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