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Re: Fwd: [CBQ] Original CB&Q station at Belmont Ave demolished?

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Subject: Re: Fwd: [CBQ] Original CB&Q station at Belmont Ave demolished?
From: Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:39:30 -0700
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MRS insulated box cars were designed to ship beer.  MRS is/was owned by 
Anheuser-Busch.
       Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colorado

STEVEN HOLDING wrote:
> It was '73 Leo I was still at Congress Park.  All door box cars were great in 
> a derailment.  Scattered the contents all over the ROW.  I got rid of the 
> cars in the Compass system While working at Congress Park.  The computer gave 
> us the cars even though they were destroyed.
> One time I had a derailment in Mt. Pleasant Iowa right in the middle of the 
> college there.  One of the cars had been picked up at Monmouth.  A 
> Manufactures Railway insulated box load headed to Red Oak Iowa They buried 
> the whole car.  What was shipped in MRS cars?
> SJH
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "qutlx1@aol.com" <qutlx1@aol.com>
> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:41:16 PM
> Subject: Fwd: [CBQ] Original CB&Q station at Belmont Ave demolished?
>
> I dont believe the building on the south side of the mains at Belmont you 
> reference was ever a Q facility.
>
> While it probably wasn't the "original" Belmont Ave depot, the one that was 
> between #2 and #3 mains was destroyed by #97 in 1973 or '74. #97 went on the 
> ground there and the pile of cars basically wiped out and then buried the 
> depot. When we went by about 16-20 hours later on #85 Hulchers backhoes were 
> digging a giant hole and dumping car parts and ladings into it. I believe 
> from 
> time to time things like refrigerators, marine outboard motors,etc float to 
> the 
> surface or are unearthed during an excavation. 
> They should find all kinds of interesting things when they set the footings 
> for the overpass.
>
> Leo
>
>   



 
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