Superior was fortunate to have the Burlington build their line through
Superior in 1880 that was part of their Denver-Kansas City Route. The
Missouri Pacific built through Superior to reach central Nebraska, but
did very little business here, while the SF and C&NW meet in Superior
interchanging a tremendous amount of traffic including cattle from Texas
north to the Dakota's for summer pasturing, grain not only for the Omaha
and Great Lakes markets, but to the Gulf. One grain dealer in Superior
had contracts with the SF, selling grain for dairy herds which supplied
the Fred Harvey chain of eating houses across the Santa Fe. Superior had
an Armour's plant which shipped processed frozen chickens nationwide,
processed eggs frozen in tubs to buyers such as Nabisco, Farmer's Union
Creamery shipped car loads of butter, some of which went to feed our
troops (I had Superior Brand butter in Korea while in the Army) this
later became a large cheese manufacturing plant, a cement plant provided
car loads of cement for projects across central the United States,
Champlin Petroluem maintained a pipeline terminal in Superior loading
tank cars of oil for shipment, five elevators supplied grain and feed
for a large area. Burlington and C&NW had switch engines located at
Superior. C&NW had a joint terminal with SF utilizing roundhouse and
depot facilities. Mountains of grain have been loaded out of Superior,
Union Pacific which gained trackage rights into Superior from the BN-SF
merger often hauls 100 car grain trains from Superior weekly. Superior
currently has two grain elevators, with a new shuttle loading facility
under construction with a 110 car loop track for continuous loading. The
Superior rail yards have been busy over the years and repaid the
Burlington and SF handsomely with ample business over the 100-plus
years. Yesterday afternoon I stopped by the BNSF yard office to see what
was going on, the yards were full, two crews were awaiting trains, and I
snapped a photo of CREX 1318 on an empty grain train (one of four
through trains I witnessed yesterday) stopped to change crews as they
were coming off the Kansas Division to the Nebraska Division. - Richard
Kistler
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