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Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0 471 (Baldwin, 1910) has been moved from its longtime home at the Minnesota & Western Railroad Museum of Annandale, Minn., to Janesville, Minn. These photos were taken the day after delivery; the location is south of downtown Janesville alongside the DM&E. The new owner is reportedly Don Borneke Construction; a cosmetic restoration is planned.
It was nice to find some Minnie and Louie representation at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay. I'm sure this yard power never made it out in the vicinity of Redwood Falls on the Watertown line, but it was fun to see something from my new "home road."
A preview from the Iowa Trip. Minneapolis & St. Louis ALCO RS-1 sits in the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad shops in Boone, IA.
IAIS 6988 made another roundtrip on October 23 from Newton to South Amana. Here the 6988 crosses the UP(MSTL) at Grinnell, IA.
Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0 H6-38 #471, formerly of Annandale, MN, heading for a cosmetic restoration.
This classic 1930's era wooden boxcar still looks incredible. It resides at the Western Railroad Museum in Rio Vistam, CA.
Photo of wreck www.flickr.com/photos/photolibrarian/50259388988/in/datep...
Newspaper account www.flickr.com/photos/photolibrarian/50260262742/in/datep...
This is the view up the old Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway to where it met the Rock Island Line at Union Depot in Grinnell, Iowa. This line is now Union Pacific, the other Iowa Interstate. Passenger trains long gone, the depot is now a restaurant. 268.85 railroad miles to Minneapolis. : )
The depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Dessert Train has backed into the Gravel Pit to meet the 130 Fraser Train. Taken from the cab of MSTL 244
Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0 H6-38 #471, formerly of Annandale, MN, heading for a cosmetic restoration.
July 3, 1920.
Newspaper account www.flickr.com/photos/photolibrarian/50260262742/in/datep...
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Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0 471 (Baldwin, 1910) has been moved from its longtime home at the Minnesota & Western Railroad Museum of Annandale, Minn., to Janesville, Minn. These photos were taken the day after delivery; the location is south of downtown Janesville alongside the DM&E. The new owner is reportedly Don Borneke Construction; a cosmetic restoration is planned.
MILW 4-8-4 #261 leads the Fall Colors excursion past the grain elevator complex at Gaylord on the ex-MSTL.
The molten salt test loop (MSTL) at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Funded partially by the Department of Energy, AREVA’s solar team and Sandia’s molten salt technology experts have developed an innovative approach to energy storage that combines the MSTL with AREVA’s Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector applications.
Read more at bit.ly/1fRDVz9.
Photo by Randy Montoya.
The molten salt test loop (MSTL) at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Funded partially by the Department of Energy, AREVA’s solar team and Sandia’s molten salt technology experts have developed an innovative approach to energy storage that combines the MSTL with AREVA’s Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector applications.
Read more at bit.ly/1fRDVz9.
Photo by Randy Montoya.
The molten salt test loop (MSTL) at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Funded partially by the Department of Energy, AREVA’s solar team and Sandia’s molten salt technology experts have developed an innovative approach to energy storage that combines the MSTL with AREVA’s Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector applications.
Read more at bit.ly/1fRDVz9.
Photo by Randy Montoya.
CNW (Lettered M&StL) 40' Boxcar 4508, Possibly Winona, MN
Photo by Ben Pennington. Collection of Ryan Heath.
A convoy of train chasers plug up Minnesota State Highway 19 as they pace alongside MILW 261 towards Winthrop.
Looking southeast.
Rail abandonment could be adverse to Eldora
March 8, 2011
By KEN BLACK, TIMES-REPUBLICAN
ELDORA - A rail line from Ackley to Marshalltown could soon be abandoned if the investors and business cannot be found to keep it open, leaving some in Central Iowa very concerned about transportation issues.
The line, owned by Iowa River Railroad, has become unprofitable and the company has made preliminary moves that could result in abandonment. In Eldora, the Iowa Department of Transportation had a public meeting to discuss options and bring interested parties together.
Bob Forr, operations manager at Quality Products, said the loss of the railroad would create a very significant hardship on his business, which brings in raw materials on the line mainly from the north, but also sometimes from the Marshalltown area. Quality Products is a manufacturer of plastic products and employs more than 100 people in Eldora.
A portion of rail line owned by Iowa River Railroad in Eldora is shown here. A line from Ackley to Marshalltown could soon be abandoned if a way cannot be found to save it. People in Eldora have expressed concern about the negative repercussions of closing the line.
If the rail line were unavailable, Forr said it would add $250,000 annually to his budget for transporting raw materials into his plant.
"It's going to be a business decision on whether or not it's feasible to stay here," he said. "It's not small change. Our payroll is over $2 million a year. That's going to be a big loss to the city of Eldora."
Most of the use the rail currently receives is between Eldora and points to the north. There is a good chance that the rail will extend from the Chicago, Central and pacific Railroad line nearly Ackley to as far south as Highway 20. Some are hoping at least to keep the line open from the north to Eldora and others are hoping the line remains open all the way to Marshalltown.
Deb Crosser, executive director of economic development for Eldora, said the unique thing about the line is that it connects both to the Chicago, Central and Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific.
Marty Wymore, director of the Region VI Planning Commission, had a two-fold interest in the meeting.
"Our first interest is in continuing the rail service here," he said. "If that fails, we're certainly interested in other uses of this rail corridor."
One of those uses could be a recreational trail between Marshalltown and Eldora. From Eldora, the trail could connect with a trail near Pine Lake State Park and continue all the way to George Wyth Memorial State Park in Cedar Falls.
Several members of the Central Iowa Bicycle Club were also in attendance.
Tamara Nicholson, director of IDOT's Office or Rail Transportation, said the DOT has very little say in whether the rail line is abandoned and its purpose on conducting the meeting was simply to facilitate discussion and educate.
If a group of investors wanted to keep the rail line open, Nicholson said the DOT does offer the Railroad Revolving Loan and Grant Program, which could help with the cost of acquiring the line. However, the investors would be completely responsible for maintaining the line after that point.
Contact Ken Black at 641-753-6611 or kblack@timesrepublican.com
Waseca Minnesota’s Minneapolis & St. Louis Depot was built by the M&StL in 1912 after the 1887 Union Depot that the “Louie” and Chicago North Western were sharing burned down. The new depot was built with light-colored Chaska brick, probably because of this material’s reputation for being fire resistant.
The depot was in service until 1959. It was sold in 1960 and restored to become Waseca Depot Liquor, which operated until 2000. After the liquor store closed, the community began lobbying to have it restored. It was showing its age and the structure also needed to be stabilized.
The City of Waseca bought it in 2000, and the Waseca M&StL Depot Society was formed in 2002 to start renovations. When the main driver behind the restoration effort, Mayor Tom Hagen, was called to active military duty in 2003, the restoration fizzled.
In 2007 the depot was listed on the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota’s “10 Most Endangered Properties” list, which generated the attention that the old depot needed. The City of Waseca cut a deal with a couple who had the restoration job finished. In October 2007, the couple opened Zinnia’s Boutique, which is still in operation.
Amtrak #6 with AMTK 704 leading stops at the depot in Monmouth Illinois in 1979. Monmouth would be eliminated as a stop and the depot razed several years later. The siding in the foreground was the connection to a small segment of the former MStL/CNW track still in service.
Continuing west, we see the 510 crossing the old M&StL at Grinnell and rolling past the nicely restored depot at the junction.
July 3, 1920
Photo of wreck www.flickr.com/photos/photolibrarian/50259388988/in/datep...
Newspaper account www.flickr.com/photos/photolibrarian/50260262742/in/datep...
The molten salt test loop (MSTL) at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Funded partially by the Department of Energy, AREVA’s solar team and Sandia’s molten salt technology experts have developed an innovative approach to energy storage that combines the MSTL with AREVA’s Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector applications.
Read more at bit.ly/1fRDVz9.
Photo by Randy Montoya.
From the website...
Rolling stock was demolished, merchandise destroyed and part of a steel bridge torn down when fast freight No. 92, south bound on the Iowa Central ran off the track and went thru the bridge over the Iowa River at Steamboat Rock at 5:10 Tuesday evening. From the standpoint of property loss the wreck is one of the worst the company has had in years, but it was most fortunate in that no one was injured, and it is hard to understand how the enginemen escaped. Two spans of the bridge were torn out, and twelve empty and six loaded cars were derailed some of them being demolished and their contents badly damaged. One engine kept the track, the other hangs partly off the bridge and its tank is a wreck..
Traffic will probably be delayed for 24 hours or more. According to the trainmen the derailment of a refrigerator car, the first car in the rear of the locomotives, was the cause of the wreck. It left the track about 200 feet north of the bridge. The engine tank ahead of it was dragged off and cars following it were likewise derailed before the bridge was reached. When the derailed tank and cars struck the north end of the steel bridge over the river they displaced and then tore out the two north spans into which the derailed cars were dumped. Others were piled up along the track and right-of-way approaching the bridge.
The head locomotive stuck to the rails and crossed the two spans before they went down. The rear locomotive got part way across before the bridge was torn loose, then it partly toppled off the bridge. The enginemen jumped from their locomotives as soon as they saw that part of the train was derailed, and that it was probable that the train would go off the bridge. This accounts for their escaping injury or death.
There is no water under the north two spans of the bridge, the drop from the bridge to the river bed at this point being about 8 or 10 feet. Oscar O. Green engineer, and G. Baxter, fireman both of this city were on the head locomotive, No. 100. J. H. Benson, engineer and his fireman J.C. Carberry, were on the 421, the second locomotive.
It is estimated the train was running from 25 to 30 mph when the derailment occurred. Charles Worley, conductor, of this city was in charge of the train. The wreck presented a curious sight. A great iron girder of the bridge was run thru the locomotive tank, and an immense wooden beam was forced thru the firebox of locomotive no. 421. Among the merchandise in the debris was a car of butter and eggs, one of canned goods, one of lumber, and one of oats. Several of the empty cars were reduced to little more than kindling. The track was torn up for a distance of about 200 feet.
Upon receipt of the news of the wreck here, W. J. Fordham a conductor, who had been sent north with an extra at 3:45 o'clock was stopped at Gifford and hurried back here to take the wrecker and crew to Steamboat Rock. During the night no effort was made to get any trains but passengers thru. the trains with the heaviest equipment and engines were detoured by the way of Gifford over the Northwestern, to Webster City, and from there over the I.C. to Ackley. No. 6, the southbound night passenger, made this roundabout journey, reaching here at 9 o'clock this morning. The lighter trains were detoured by way of Eldora, the Northwestern to Iowa Falls, and the I.C. to Ackley. No 3, the northbound psgr, ran no farther than Eldora Tuesday evening. There it remained during the night returning south as No. 4 this morning. When it was announced in the northbound psgr No. 3 last night that the train would not go farther than Eldora, many passengers due for points north of there got off and remained here.
It is not known how long it will take before the wreckage is cleared and the bridge repaired sufficiently to be used, but it will probably not be before some time Thursday.
Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0 H6-38 #471, formerly of Annandale, MN, heading for a cosmetic restoration.
The steam guy in me would love to tear into those cylinders just to "see" if she was fully restore-able!
Rail abandonment could be adverse to Eldora
March 8, 2011
By KEN BLACK, TIMES-REPUBLICAN
ELDORA - A rail line from Ackley to Marshalltown could soon be abandoned if the investors and business cannot be found to keep it open, leaving some in Central Iowa very concerned about transportation issues.
The line, owned by Iowa River Railroad, has become unprofitable and the company has made preliminary moves that could result in abandonment. In Eldora, the Iowa Department of Transportation had a public meeting to discuss options and bring interested parties together.
Bob Forr, operations manager at Quality Products, said the loss of the railroad would create a very significant hardship on his business, which brings in raw materials on the line mainly from the north, but also sometimes from the Marshalltown area. Quality Products is a manufacturer of plastic products and employs more than 100 people in Eldora.
A portion of rail line owned by Iowa River Railroad in Eldora is shown here. A line from Ackley to Marshalltown could soon be abandoned if a way cannot be found to save it. People in Eldora have expressed concern about the negative repercussions of closing the line.
If the rail line were unavailable, Forr said it would add $250,000 annually to his budget for transporting raw materials into his plant.
"It's going to be a business decision on whether or not it's feasible to stay here," he said. "It's not small change. Our payroll is over $2 million a year. That's going to be a big loss to the city of Eldora."
Most of the use the rail currently receives is between Eldora and points to the north. There is a good chance that the rail will extend from the Chicago, Central and pacific Railroad line nearly Ackley to as far south as Highway 20. Some are hoping at least to keep the line open from the north to Eldora and others are hoping the line remains open all the way to Marshalltown.
Deb Crosser, executive director of economic development for Eldora, said the unique thing about the line is that it connects both to the Chicago, Central and Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific.
Marty Wymore, director of the Region VI Planning Commission, had a two-fold interest in the meeting.
"Our first interest is in continuing the rail service here," he said. "If that fails, we're certainly interested in other uses of this rail corridor."
One of those uses could be a recreational trail between Marshalltown and Eldora. From Eldora, the trail could connect with a trail near Pine Lake State Park and continue all the way to George Wyth Memorial State Park in Cedar Falls.
Several members of the Central Iowa Bicycle Club were also in attendance.
Tamara Nicholson, director of IDOT's Office or Rail Transportation, said the DOT has very little say in whether the rail line is abandoned and its purpose on conducting the meeting was simply to facilitate discussion and educate.
If a group of investors wanted to keep the rail line open, Nicholson said the DOT does offer the Railroad Revolving Loan and Grant Program, which could help with the cost of acquiring the line. However, the investors would be completely responsible for maintaining the line after that point.
Contact Ken Black at 641-753-6611 or kblack@timesrepublican.com
Livermore, IA Train Through Bridge, July 1920
Posted March 26th, 2009 by Stu Beitler
TERRIBLE WRECK.
M. AND ST. L. TRAIN CRASHES THROUGH BRIDGE NEAR HUMBOLDT LAST SATURDAY.
MRS. T. J. DYRLAND WAS KILLED.
THREE OTHERS FROM THIS CITY WERE AMONG THE INJURED.
One of the worst railroad wrecks that has ever occurred in this state took place about four miles south of Livermore on the M. & St. L. road on Saturday last about noon. The passenger train that goes north to Minneapolis went through a bridge across a creek about a mile north of the Arnold station. The creek has quite a steep bank at this place and is in quite a ravine. A trestle works about 120 feet long spans this ravine. The engine of the passenger train went across the bridge all right but just as it got on the dirt track the bridge gave way and the four coaches of the train plunged into the creek below. It had been raining heavily and this made the bridge unsafe and washed out, it is claimed, some of the dirst and support of the piling. The engineer and firemen felt the engine going over the bank and so jumped and just escaped from being buried in the mud under the engine. There were quite a number of passengers on the train and these were piled up into the end of the car that went down first and covered with seats and chairs and everything else that came crushing in on them. Fortunately the engineer and fireman escaped and these two proceeded to get out the live and injured passengers. After a time some farmers came from near by places and assisted in the work of getting the living and dead from the debris in the water of the creek. It was a difficult and heart rending job for even those who were not seriously injured were so dazed and nervous that they went all to pieces. The first report had it that nine were killed outright and 20 odd seriously injured while others were bruised up pretty badly in one way and another. The seriously injured were taken to the hospital in a special train that was sent up from Fort Dodge while doctors from that place and Livermore did all they could on the scene of the wreck to alleviate the suffering of the wounded.
Emmetsburg had four victims in the wreck. MRS. T. J. DYRLAND and little grandson MARVIN were on the train coming to Emmetsburg from Ft. Dodge. The former was instantly killed. Her forehead was crushed in and the side of her face torn off and her hands and arms injured badly. Her death resulted from the crushing of the forehead. The little boy had a fracture we believe of a leg and badly bruised and cut on the body. C. W. MILLER of this city who was on his way home from Des Moines was injured being badly bruised up. These are in the hospital at Fort Dodge at this writing and it is thought that they will get along all right.
The railroad is being seriously condemned for the wreck as it is declared that the bridge has been reported unsafe and it should have been looked after. Whether there is any truth in this report we do not know but be this as it may the road bed of the M. & St. L. is very poor and the wonder is that any trains get over it at all.
The Dead:
MRS. G. J. DYRLAND, Emmetsburg.
B. F. REILLY, former merchant of Livermore.
A. BATTY, no address.
C. F. WOODS, Imogene, Iowa.
HENRY DAWSON, Otho, Iowa.
MRS. RYAN, Grand Junction, Iowa.
A child of MRS. RUTH KULP, LaSeuer, Iowa.
Middle aged dark complextioned man, C. B. on collar.
Middle aged man in work clothes, address, Milan South Dakota in coat.
The Injured:
CHARLES MILLER, Emmetsburg, shoulder torn.
GUS W. ZIEBLKE, Emmetsburg, face and body bruised.
ERWIN ERICKSON, Emmetsburg, body cut.
O. B. WULFF, St. Paul, seriously injured.
JOE SHEHABBET, Chicago, condition very serious.
RALPH HUSSONG, Corwith, fractured thigh.
REV. J. E. RYDBECK, Rock Island, Ia., back sprained.
W. M. McCULLEY, Livermore, thigh fractured, head badly cut.
F. H. WALKER, St. Louis, face cut, body bruised.
C. K. CLEVELAND, face cut, body bruised.
J. T. JOHNSON, Fergus Falls, Minn., bruised.
MRS. FRANK D. HOLMES, Minneapolis, face and body bruised.
A. J. HADLEY, Lepina, Okla., head cut, hip bruised.
CORA TOWNE, Jamica, Iowa, face cut.
MRS. C. F. BURNMASTER, Fort Dodge, face cut, and body bruised.
BARNEY SQUIBB, Scranton, Iowa, cut and bruised about head and body.
MRS. RALPH KOLP, St. Peter, Minn., face and body bruised.
W. M. ROUMINE, Des Moines, face and head cut badly.
CARL NECKER, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, neck hurt, head bruised.
C. G. WALTER, St. Louis, wrist fractured, face and body bruised.
The names of fifteen others injured are not reported.
Palo Alto Reporter Emmetsburg Iowa 1920-07-08
Although the traffic on the former M&StL Tootin' Louie line have ceased for nearly 15 years, much of the trackage, signals, and right of way markings remain.
I can vaguely remember seeing DM&E SD40-2's pulling long strings of limestone gondolas through Albert Lea and onto the Union Pacific Albert Lea Sub for interchange in Mason city in the late 90's Much beyond that is nothing but a blur to me. The Line was recently taken up in Albert Lea, but much of trackage remains north of town. I figured I would post a few photos showing what is left of a rail line which have otherwise been written into the history books.
MSTL0001
Minneapolis & St. Louis
GP9
New Minneapols & St. Louis GP9 No. 604 with matching hopper cars during the early 1950s near Marshalltown, Iowa (CNW railway)
©AVD
A while back I had painted and decaled a MSTL-CNW 53' flat car- later on I added a load of "telephone poles" to the car made from bamboo skewers and toothpick side stakes, I also added tiedowns between the stakes too.
Rail abandonment could be adverse to Eldora
March 8, 2011
By KEN BLACK, TIMES-REPUBLICAN
ELDORA - A rail line from Ackley to Marshalltown could soon be abandoned if the investors and business cannot be found to keep it open, leaving some in Central Iowa very concerned about transportation issues.
The line, owned by Iowa River Railroad, has become unprofitable and the company has made preliminary moves that could result in abandonment. In Eldora, the Iowa Department of Transportation had a public meeting to discuss options and bring interested parties together.
Bob Forr, operations manager at Quality Products, said the loss of the railroad would create a very significant hardship on his business, which brings in raw materials on the line mainly from the north, but also sometimes from the Marshalltown area. Quality Products is a manufacturer of plastic products and employs more than 100 people in Eldora.
A portion of rail line owned by Iowa River Railroad in Eldora is shown here. A line from Ackley to Marshalltown could soon be abandoned if a way cannot be found to save it. People in Eldora have expressed concern about the negative repercussions of closing the line.
If the rail line were unavailable, Forr said it would add $250,000 annually to his budget for transporting raw materials into his plant.
"It's going to be a business decision on whether or not it's feasible to stay here," he said. "It's not small change. Our payroll is over $2 million a year. That's going to be a big loss to the city of Eldora."
Most of the use the rail currently receives is between Eldora and points to the north. There is a good chance that the rail will extend from the Chicago, Central and pacific Railroad line nearly Ackley to as far south as Highway 20. Some are hoping at least to keep the line open from the north to Eldora and others are hoping the line remains open all the way to Marshalltown.
Deb Crosser, executive director of economic development for Eldora, said the unique thing about the line is that it connects both to the Chicago, Central and Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific.
Marty Wymore, director of the Region VI Planning Commission, had a two-fold interest in the meeting.
"Our first interest is in continuing the rail service here," he said. "If that fails, we're certainly interested in other uses of this rail corridor."
One of those uses could be a recreational trail between Marshalltown and Eldora. From Eldora, the trail could connect with a trail near Pine Lake State Park and continue all the way to George Wyth Memorial State Park in Cedar Falls.
Several members of the Central Iowa Bicycle Club were also in attendance.
Tamara Nicholson, director of IDOT's Office or Rail Transportation, said the DOT has very little say in whether the rail line is abandoned and its purpose on conducting the meeting was simply to facilitate discussion and educate.
If a group of investors wanted to keep the rail line open, Nicholson said the DOT does offer the Railroad Revolving Loan and Grant Program, which could help with the cost of acquiring the line. However, the investors would be completely responsible for maintaining the line after that point.
Contact Ken Black at 641-753-6611 or kblack@timesrepublican.com
Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0 H6-38 #471, formerly of Annandale, MN, heading for a cosmetic restoration.
Sitting near the type of industry she might have switched in the day.
From the website...
Rolling stock was demolished, merchandise destroyed and part of a steel bridge torn down when fast freight No. 92, south bound on the Iowa Central ran off the track and went thru the bridge over the Iowa River at Steamboat Rock at 5:10 Tuesday evening. From the standpoint of property loss the wreck is one of the worst the company has had in years, but it was most fortunate in that no one was injured, and it is hard to understand how the enginemen escaped. Two spans of the bridge were torn out, and twelve empty and six loaded cars were derailed some of them being demolished and their contents badly damaged. One engine kept the track, the other hangs partly off the bridge and its tank is a wreck..
Traffic will probably be delayed for 24 hours or more. According to the trainmen the derailment of a refrigerator car, the first car in the rear of the locomotives, was the cause of the wreck. It left the track about 200 feet north of the bridge. The engine tank ahead of it was dragged off and cars following it were likewise derailed before the bridge was reached. When the derailed tank and cars struck the north end of the steel bridge over the river they displaced and then tore out the two north spans into which the derailed cars were dumped. Others were piled up along the track and right-of-way approaching the bridge.
The head locomotive stuck to the rails and crossed the two spans before they went down. The rear locomotive got part way across before the bridge was torn loose, then it partly toppled off the bridge. The enginemen jumped from their locomotives as soon as they saw that part of the train was derailed, and that it was probable that the train would go off the bridge. This accounts for their escaping injury or death.
There is no water under the north two spans of the bridge, the drop from the bridge to the river bed at this point being about 8 or 10 feet. Oscar O. Green engineer, and G. Baxter, fireman both of this city were on the head locomotive, No. 100. J. H. Benson, engineer and his fireman J.C. Carberry, were on the 421, the second locomotive.
It is estimated the train was running from 25 to 30 mph when the derailment occurred. Charles Worley, conductor, of this city was in charge of the train. The wreck presented a curious sight. A great iron girder of the bridge was run thru the locomotive tank, and an immense wooden beam was forced thru the firebox of locomotive no. 421. Among the merchandise in the debris was a car of butter and eggs, one of canned goods, one of lumber, and one of oats. Several of the empty cars were reduced to little more than kindling. The track was torn up for a distance of about 200 feet.
Upon receipt of the news of the wreck here, W. J. Fordham a conductor, who had been sent north with an extra at 3:45 o'clock was stopped at Gifford and hurried back here to take the wrecker and crew to Steamboat Rock. During the night no effort was made to get any trains but passengers thru. the trains with the heaviest equipment and engines were detoured by the way of Gifford over the Northwestern, to Webster City, and from there over the I.C. to Ackley. No. 6, the southbound night passenger, made this roundabout journey, reaching here at 9 o'clock this morning. The lighter trains were detoured by way of Eldora, the Northwestern to Iowa Falls, and the I.C. to Ackley. No 3, the northbound psgr, ran no farther than Eldora Tuesday evening. There it remained during the night returning south as No. 4 this morning. When it was announced in the northbound psgr No. 3 last night that the train would not go farther than Eldora, many passengers due for points north of there got off and remained here.
It is not known how long it will take before the wreckage is cleared and the bridge repaired sufficiently to be used, but it will probably not be before some time Thursday.
I worked in West Allis from 3/07 to 8/08, and for that entire time, this car was parked just south of W Rogers Street, off of the UP Waukesha Sub. In the time between then and when I shot this, the car was pulled and the switch was straight railed. After spending some time at Mitchell and here on the Island, it ended up in Butler by 2/11, and has been there since. Amazing it's still around, built in 4/51, it hasn't even seen the paint booth since.
Update: She hung out around Butler until the sand boom in 2013 or 2014 and was on a short list of cars to get preserved, but I can't say for sure where it ended up.