Oops, the quarry was in Kansas, not Nebraska. Norm
On 3/6/2014 7:21 AM, Norm Metcalf wrote:
> 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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