[Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Whose gon and dolomite container cars are these?
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Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Sharp eyes, Eric!
I’d love to know how and who served that plant. This is not the way they usually work. That mix of cars on the floor is highly unusual.
Powdered dolomite was a very specific load, and would only come from certain suppliers. I wonder who?
Elden Gatwood
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Sent: Friday, December 4, 2020 2:20 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Whose gon and dolomite container cars are these?
The image title is: Filling scrap charging bucket, Laclede Steel Company (Alton, Ill.). Here’s a wiki page on the successor, Alton Steel. I wonder if the B&O served the plant.
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Jeffrey White
According to Charlie Duckworth's excellent book on the Missouri-Illinois Railroad in 1906 the MP bought 39 foot composite gondolas from AC&F that were rebuilt by having the wood sides removed and the addition of fishbelly underframes to haul dolomite containers from a mine at Valley Dolomite in Dolomite MO to the steel mills in the Granite City IL area. The cars were rebuilt in 1940, 41, 42 and 44. An additional 18 cars of a similar design were built by the railroad at the DeSoto MO shops in 1947. These new cars had an increased length to 45 ft 6 inches. These cars were in captive service. I don't remember who served Alton Steel. Jeff White Alma IL On 12/4/2020 1:46 PM, Gatwood, Elden J
SAD wrote:
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