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Re: [CBQ] Ref. Superior's Railroads

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From: Norm Metcalf <normmetcalf@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 07:21:07 -0700
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Richard, thanks again for more good info.  There was also the 
Nebraska-Kansas which was an electric line running from a quarry in 
Nebraska six miles to the Ideal Cement plant outside of Superior.  They 
dieselized and stopped using the name Nebraska-Kansas.  Per the state 
historical society it was the only cement plant in Nebraska.  In 1975 I 
photographed their three diesels, one of which had come from the 
Arkansas Valley Interurban in Kansas.  Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colorado

On 3/5/2014 3:26 PM, Richard Kistler wrote:
> 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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