St Louis Terminal General Information

[chris]

I have an old AAR book from 1944 called "Railroads at Work: A Picture Book of the American Railroads in Action." It has good photos of rail action across a variety of topics. However, all locomotives/rolling stock have fake RR names touched up over the real things - but it's a dead giveaway on certain signature equipment like the GG1!

This picture shows what is listed as piece of equipment bound for a Texas oil refinery from a Missouri manufacturing plant. The clues in the background - namely the coal tower and roundhouse to the left (perhaps those with really good eyesight can spot the tell-tale 1500-series Mountain w/topside air tanks) peg this as Lindenwood Yard.

I had originally posted this as the "mystery yard." Kudos to Ken Wulfert for being the first to successfully identify!

[kenmc]

The "Missouri manufacturing plant" would have been the Nooter company near the river on the south side of St. Louis. They often shipped large boilers and other tank-like apparatus by rail.

Ken McElreath

[meteor910]

Right on that it likely was from Nooter. Probably a distillation tower or an extraction column, or perhaps a multi-stage vertical reactor vessel.

Ken