Lindenwood Yard 1944 equipment on flats 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!
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
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
