Bob,
I referenced a set of West Eola tower OS sheets that Russ Stroud sent
me several years back( I hope the BRHS members will see these in detail in a
future bulletin) as part of another subject. Here is info from them on
#83:
6/19/51 arr 8:52PM dept 10:59PM w/#133
12/20/51 arr 10:40PM dept 12:01 AM w/#169
10/30/51 arr 10:08PM dept 11:38PM w #168
I should also point out that #83,due out of HY at 6:40PM, is shown in
ETT #43 of 4/24/55 as the St Paul mdse train. I believe the train that you're
looking for and that did all the intermediate work is #81 which operated about 4
hours behind #83 due out of HY at 10:00PM and not due into SV until
4:00AM.
The pick up operated as an extra and I can find no ETT reference to it in
the carded trains or the footnotes. From all the stories I recall being told it
operated each nite and was pretty much an all nighter(16 hours).
As to cars movements I can only share what I saw in the 70s. Sand went
mostly east to heavy industry,foundry,and a bit unusual a lot of it went to
various companies like Proctor and Gamble,etc. A few cars went west. There would
be mty newsprint cars going both east and west. I cant answer the part about
Carnation other than to say I have been told there were inbound loads of cans
from a Carnation can plant near Milwaukee. Also before the advent of the
insulated boxcars (RBLs) the carnation product moved in reefers.
Leo Phillipp