Hello Leo,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
I wondered if local (Illinois) coal would have been delivered rather than
eastern coal. What sort of hoppers were being used for retail coal shipments?
Were the 50 ton, two-bay, types common? Also, would coal have been delivered
seasonally?
Thanks,
Mark
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, qutlx1@... wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> I can advise that in the early to mid 1970s were were deliverying
> system(BN,CBQ,GN,NP) covered hoppers for grain loading to the Lee Center at
> Amboy,IL.
>
> Prior to that it is a safe assumption that the grain mtys were Q 40 ft box
> cars. And maybe from time to time just about any 40 ft box car from any
> road when cars were tight. I recently interviewed a retired 92 year old
> local
> farmer who remembered shoveling phophate rock out of a 40 ft box car for
> his dads farm from a car spotted at the Kolmans station on the Fox and
> Illinois Union. That most likely was an ACL or SAL box car.
>
> Coal used throughout the midwest was primarily south central and Southern
> ILL coal(see BRHS Bulletin 35 ). So cars would be IC,Q,and CNW. I did spot
> a load of C&O coal at the Chana,IL elevator in 1979 so there could be an
> occasional eastern road load.
>
> By the way I remember that particular load of coal because it was about 20
> below with gale force winds and that was the first switch the elevator had
> received in something like 60 plus days. Now to give you some idea of what
> the winters of 1978-79 and 79-80 were like, Chana is on the C&I with,at
> that time 40 plus trains going by each and every day. But we spent more time
> standing still or trying to get switches to throw those two winters than
> moving.
>
> Leo Phillipp
>
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