M&StL Books/Articles

Minneapolis & St. Louis In Color Gene Green
Morning Sun Books, Inc.,
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 96-076547
ISBN 1-87887-65-3
Recommended!
Caboose Stop Hobbies in Cedar Falls, Iowa (800-642-7012) could fix you up with one.

Mileposts on the Prairie The story of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad, By Frank P. Donovan
M&StL history up to 1950. I found my copy on eBay.com.

M&StL Magazine Articles from the Model Train Magazine Index

Chicago & North Western Historical Society Members receive a subscription to the Northwestern Lines, a quarterly publication. There are occasional articles of interest to M&StL and Iowa Central fans.

The following appeared in the March 1961 Switch Lamp:

Chan Cooke, best known railfan in three states, who shows up for every trip out of Minneapolis well-stocked with M&StL souvenirs, gives our readers a concise briefing on latest developments following the recent merger:

"I was over to Cedar Lake roundhouse yesterday (3/8/61). I had to have a doctor's certificate in order to get a renewal of my leave.

GE cars 27 and 28 were being services for shipment. I was told they had been sold to a Canadian road, and were to be shipped to Nova Scotia. Alco diesel 208, I was told, was also sold, to be used for parts, to the same Canadian road that bought the other six last year. (S&L)

I saw Alco diesel 229 had been painted C&NW;colors. This painting, I was told, is being done in Chicago, and the boys here are unhappy about it, but can do nothing. The force here has been cut so low that they don't have men to do this painting without calling back some that have been laid off.

The rumor is still alive that the highway department wants the M&StL property through Cedar Lake for a freeway. I was told that C&NW is trying to bring the crew from 23rd Avenue North to Cedar Lake and dovetail the seniority, which the men at Cedar Lake don't like.

At Cedar Lake I saw C&NW Fairbanks-Morse six motor diesel in the old roundhouse; maybe laying over between runs. The FM diesels have high hoods, similar to old Alcos. I don't know how the FMs are standing up, but if they require engine work it would be a big job on account of the upper engine."

Magazine articles on the M&StL

Ask Paint Shop: M&StL F-Units Model Railroader, May 2001 page 121 (

Box Car Lettering Practices Railway Prototype Cyclopedia - Volume 4 page 1 http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rpcyc/rpcychome.html

USRA 50-ton 41-foot 6-inch composite gondolas Railmodel Journal, February 2000 page 18

Box Car Painting - Part 3 Railway Prototype Cyclopedia - Volume 5 page 1 http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rpcyc/rpcychome.html Some unique and attractive schemes on XM, XME ans XAR class cars

Paint Shop: N scale diesels for the "Louie" Model Railroader, November 1998 page 148

Ask Paint Shop: M&STL diesel colors Model Railroader, November 1998 page 151

EMD FT Diesels Railmodel Journal, November 1996 page 12

Chicago and North Western GP7s and GP9s Diesel Era, March/April 1996 page 7 Rosters - C&NW GP7 and GP9, combined CGW, CStPM&O, and M&StL GP7/9

EMD's F2 - An Interim Model Diesel Era, March/April 1996 page 31

Freight Car Potpourri: A Modeler's Guide Mainline Modeler, January 1996 page 46

Standard Box Cars Mainline Modeler, April 1993 page 33

M&StL Covered Hoppers Mainline Modeler, May 1993 page 50

General American Covered Hopper Mainline Modeler, July 1993 page 55

Modeling the RDC 4 - the Minneapolis & St. Louis Mainline Modeler, July 1991 page 36

Paint Shop: HO scale Minneapolis & St. Louis F7's Model Railroader, September 1990 page 128

M&St.L three bay covered hopper Model Railroading, December 1989 page 30

Paint Shop: Minneapolis & St. Louis red Geep Model Railroader, June 1989 page 110

Freight Cars of the Thirties: USRA 40 foot Double-Sheathed Box Cars Model Railroading, May 1988 page 30

Alco 1000-hp. light road switcher, model RS-1 Model Railroader Cyclopedia - Volume 2: Diesel Locomotives page 58 http://db.kalmbach.com/Catalog/Catalog.html

Electro-Motive 1350-hp. Freight cab, Model FT Model Railroader Cyclopedia - Volume 2: Diesel Locomotives page 89 http://db.kalmbach.com/Catalog/Catalog.html

Model Trains' Loco Photos: M&StL 2-8-0 HO Monthly/Model Trains, December 1953 page 28

Time Freight 20 Trains, August 1949 page 40 a ride to Peoria on the flagship of the Minneapolis & St. Louis

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