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New Pages:
Updated pages listed below new
pages
Aberdeen, SDDepot
4/25/2004
Employee Arthur Ray "Pat"
Patrick
3/23/2004
Hanna, IL Depot
2/8/2004
Klossner, MNDepot
5 photos
12/26//2003
J.E. Holub Agent
photos, passes, train orders from 45 years of service.
11/2003
RS-1s 1150 & 744
6/30/2003
Winfield, IA Depot
6/30/2003
Kenwood, MN
6/30/2003
IaC Loco #55
6/29/2003
Clark Propst HO Modeling
2 new boxcars
6/3/2003
Central Ia. Railway
Letter
from 1887
5/20/2003
Badger, IA
5/15/2003
Wood LAke, MN
5/15/2003
Marietta, MN
5/15/2003
New Prague Depot
5/15/2003
Montgomery Depot
5/15/2003
Marietta Depot
5/15/2003
Carver, MN
5/14/2003
Angus, IA
5/15/2003
Givin, IA Depot
4/27/2003
Maxon, IA Depot
4/27/2003
Wayland, IA Depot
4/26/2003
Gibbon, MN - Steam No. 4
4/14/2003
M&StL Steam 229
4/5/2003
M&StL Steam 66
4/5/2003
M&StL Steam 141
4/5/2003
M&StL Diesel 147
4/1/2003
Livermore, IA
3/27/2003
New Prague, MN
3/6/2003
Rippey, Iowa wreck
3/6/2003
Paul Dinoto, Conductor
3/6/2003
Kiethsburg, Illinois
3/6/2003
Morning Sun, Iowa
3/5/2003
Otisco, MN, Depot
2/24/2003
M&StL Steam
#228
2/24/2003
Moravia IA, Depot
A question
2/14/2003
New Information on these pages:
Back to new pages
M&StL Employees
10/14/2004
Hanley Falls, MN
new photo
12/26/2003
M&StL Lantern
information
11/15/2003
Depot Page
take a virtual tour
8/?/2003
Doodlebug Page
links to Jim Sands photo album
9/12/2003
M&StL Locomotives
links to Jim Sands photos
8/3/2003
Keithsburg, IL
7/14/2003
Kenwood Depot
7/14/2003
Gibbon, MN
new photo
7/10/2003
Marshalltown, IA
photo of IaC shop 6/30/2003
Zearing, IA Depot
6/30/2003
Rippey, Iowa
new story
5/15/2003
M&StL Time Tables
new table of time tables
5/15/2003
Eden PrairieDepot
new photo
5/14/2003
Hopkins Depot
new photo
5/14/2003
Chaska, MN
new photo
5/14/2003
St. James, MN
5/14/2003
Kanawha, IA
new photo
4/29/2003
D-939
new links
4/18/2003
M.O.W. page
photo of X-11 wrecker
4/17/2003
Winthrop, MN
new photo
4/14/2003
M&StL Locomotives
table listing last steam
4/12003
Cedar Lake Yard
note from Paul Dinoto
3/6/2003
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Alco spotted on the Ham track south of 3rd NE Mason City while the crew was
up the street at the Pok-A-Dot Cafe drinking their lunch.
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2006
Today I moved the site to www.cashgroth.com from
www.eldora.net/lyndon/ .
Because of this change a few of the features of this site may
not be working properly for a while.
Most of the email links on the site are outdated so you will need to send all
email to the new address eldoracoal@yahoo.com
I've moved twice and started a new
business in the past year.
Things are beginning to get back in balance for me now so I hope to get
back to work on this website. Please sign the guestbook....it gets me
going when there are interesting new stories there to ad to the site.
Cash
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| M&STL Depot
in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
M&STL Depot in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Local group looking to restore.
Could we call on you for advice or assistance? Bill Sommer BILLSOMMER @
webtv.net
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M&STL Depot in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Local group looking to restore.
Could we call on you for advice or assistance? Bill Sommer
Mike Porter's Crummies
Presents
The Minneapolis & St. Louis Bay Window Wood Caboose
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE |
New model will work for Eldora depot.
Blair Line has released HO
and N scale models of C&O #1 depot. This is nearly the same design used in
Eldora, Iowa.
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How do I find
something on this #*%$ Website?
Was the M&StL just some Mom & Pop small midwestern
railroad?
See what you think after you take a look at this photo from the Minnesota
Historical Society which shows the construction of the Minneapolis-St. Louis
Extension bridge over Cottonwood River, south of New Ulm.
I put this link here to show you an example of the quality of the photos
behind the MHS links throughout this site. This link and others like it are on
the New Ulm page.
http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDBImages/pf031/pf031818.jpg
They recently changed servers so if you find an outdated
link on this site please let me know. mstl@eldora.net
New Items listed Upcoming M&StL
Events
M&StL
Tidbits / History
Nicknames, Maps, Time
Tables, Train Orders, Facts and other good
stuff.
M&StL Town
by Town
I will build a page for each city or location that I receive information about.
Please send your short stories about growing up near or working for the
M&StL.
Depots of
the M&StL
Please add to the list by sending a copy of any depot photos you may have.
Employees
of the M&StL
From the Chief to the section hand, this is where you can read or add stories
of the people who made the M&StL a railroad.
Photos: M&StL /
CNW /and others
    
Links
M&StL, C&NW and other railroad links of interest to
modelers, history buffs and railfans.
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Please make regular
contributions to this project. The work that is going into the research will
provide a wealth of future M&StL information.
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Iowa Central
Page 
M&StL
Engineering Drawings
I recently found 26 original M&StL engineering drawings at a small antique
store. They date from the 1920's to the 50's. Most are for the GE gas-electric
cars. There are also some caboose, freight car, passenger and M.O.W. items. One
lists truck descriptions and pattern numbers for freight cars by series.
M&StL
Modeling Page
M&StL
Decal Sources
 Please
take a moment to look at the guestbook. There are many interesting notes about
the Louie from all over the world. This is my personal favorite page in the
whole website. It's neat to see the connections this railroad has continued to
have with us even a generation since it's merger into the C&NW.
M&StL
Cedar Lake Shops
M&StL/C&NW Books and
articles
M&StL/C&NW Railroadiana (Train
Stuff)
Some of the things you will find in the Groth Museum of Railroad History and
Technology (my basement)
M&StL
modeling by Clark Propst
Check out some of Clark's outstanding M&StL modeling. He's included notes
on painting, decals, details and parts.
M&StL Question & Answer
Page
Please take a look and see if you can help answer a question. Add your own
question.
M&StL
Reunion ?
 Help preserve this caboose
Send me your caption for this photo.
Due to the number of great captions for this I started a new page
CLICK HERE
This sign might work as a caption!
C&NW
Tidbits / History
Nicknames, Facts and other good stuff.
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M&StL Yahoo! Groups web site.
If you are interested in the M&StL you definitely need to join this email
list. Members have access to many additional M&StL photos and other
information. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mstl
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M&StL Annual Reports
C&NW
Pioneer
My HO scale model and links to other Pioneer information.
Railfan:
One who chases after trains. Come along as I chase after those endangered green
and yellow varmints. Recent sighting include MP15s, GP38s and a UP train wreck
site near Buckeye, Iowa. I have video tape and photos that cover hundreds of
sightings in central Iowa over the past ten years that I will add as I get to
them.
Company
Store
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M&StL fans!
My goal is to have as much M&StL information
on this website as I can locate.
You can add you own pictures, stories or news.
Send me a note if you have an idea. eldoracoal@yahoo.com
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 A
field trip to an old CRI&P roundhouse in Manly Iowa
I used to play in there when I was a kid. It was a furniture warehouse at
that time.
WANTED: M&StL Items of all kinds
The HO scale
RR that has taken over our basement
Railroading's
Past in Eldora, Iowa
Eldora Railroad & Coal Co. / Iowa Central / The
Chicago Iowa and Dakota
Minneapolis & St. Louis / Chicago & Northwestern / Union Pacific
Also included are notes I've collected from anyone who has a memory of the
railroads of Eldora. Read stories from a CNW dispatcher, former Eldora
businessmen and others. Add your own too! I would like to do a page like this
for every town the M&StL served. You can help!
Eldora
Welcome Center and RR museum
Four feet
eight and one half inches? Who came up with that?
If you know of any M&StL information on the web please let me know so I
can add a link.
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| NOTES :
Thanks to everyone who has contributed new
content to the site.
Hal Reitan son of M.J. Reitan,
the last Chief Dispatcher of the M&StL has loaned me a box of M.J.'s photos
and paper items to scan and add to this site. I'll post the new pages in the
left hand column of this page as they are added.
There have been a few old wood M&StL cars
that have been located and people have given me pictures to tease you with.
Don't ask me where the cars are located. The people who own them don't need a
bunch of M&StL trespassers on the property. caboose 1201, caboose 1306 and boxcar 19392
I have been receiving more requests for
genealogical information. Please take a look at the M&StL Employees Page for a list of tips I've come
up with. If anyone else has suggestions let me know so they can be added to the
page as well.
I still have a mountain of information to add
to this site.
New HO scale model photos from Clark Propst
Photos from Jim Sands,
Don Vaughn, Dennis
Holmes, Fred Knudsen and Louis Claeson.
Please send stories or notes to add to the
pages for individual towns. As fans we really need to collect the stories of
the people who worked for and lived near our favorite railroad while they are
still with us. I have email from families who only recently found this
information on the Internet and had relatives pass away before they could get
their stories recorded. Take a tape recorder or video camera along the next
time you visit a railroad friend or relative. Who knows, they may want to
contribute items to the local RR museum or help finance the AFE project listed below.
What do you think of having a M&StL
reunion?
The interest in the Louie seems to be growing
as evidenced by new scale model products, a growing
YahooGroups membership, high
prices for M&StL items on eBay and the growing traffic to this site.
Cash Groth
Remember to sign the guestbook!
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