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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