In a message dated 8/13/2015 1:03:12 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
STMFC@... writes:
The
same article also covers Lake Cargo movement of coal (and says, interestingly,
that Indiana and Illinois coal could not compete with eastern coal in the
Great Lakes ports and were limited entirely in 1937 to local markets and
interior points of southern Wisconsin and Minnesota); all-rail westward
movement of coal to markets in the upper Mississippi River Basin, and the
Chicago coal market.
Interesting given the Illinois Central railroad put out a book in 1937
"traffic and organization of the Illinois central" pants a somewhat different
picture of the traffic. Also check out the ICC reports #46 Case #8725 Lake cargo
coal rates and #774 Bituminous coal to C.F.A. territory. Lots of tidbits in both
and facts and figures.
