[RITSlist] CRI&P Unit Coal Trains

[Jim Eager]

Tim Bennett wrote:
> I am modeling an early 1980's freelance railroad which utilizes the  
> old CRI&P St. Louis to KC route. I'm very interested in running  
> some prototypical unit coal trains that would have served Union  
> Electric's Labadie, MO power plant during the late 70's - early  
> 80's. I have found a few pictures of Ortner 5 bay red and yellow  
> hoppers on the internet (MoPac trains carrying southern Illinois  
> coal), and I also ran across some information regarding UCEX and  
> AMEX hopper cars.

In your early 1980s time frame UCEX (red) and AMAX Ortner rapid  
discharge hoppers were definitely used in unit trains between mines  
on the Rio Grande and Union Electric's West Labadie, MO plant. The  
trains were loaded by Colowyo Coal at Axial and Energy Fuels at  
Energy, both on the Rio Grande's Craig branch. The routing was D&RGW- 
Pueblo-MP-W. Labadie. The D&RGW train numbers were 713/714, the MP  
symbol was CUO.

Jim Eager <jeager at sympatico.ca>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada



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