I heard that the Manufacturers Railroad stopped delivering newsprint to the St Louis Post Dispatch over the former elevated entrance to the former subway terminal which is also now, is or was the printing plant for this paper...Has this trackage been pulled up? Is any of the former elevated line being reutilised for light rail?..I heard some was being used as a pedestrian walkway as is the McKinley Bridge....? I know NS was using former yards and some Alton trackage...I lost track of whats happening there to the former IT lines. Any plans to run light rail up to Alton?
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Long Gone...
http://www.stb.dot.gov/decisions/readingroom.nsf/b8a01ec9f8551f65852574b3006a8cbb/07b87e74d1104ca485256ff5006db440?OpenDocument
Thanks...a shame...an unusual operation...over an el structure..onto the street and into the subway...diesel powered freight..over a former interurban route into its terminal....I just read after reading your post that two miles of this elevated line will be a paved pathway for foot and bike traffic...as well as the McKinley Bridge aka NYC West Side Line...seems rather a waste..but I suppose thats in the eye of the beholder...my nostalgia is showing.There are some great shots of this operation at Skips Railroad Depot listed under St Louis Shortlines.
Falcon48 wrote:I believe the remnants of the IT line in St. Louis were formally abandoned last year. The last operator was a short line, but I don't immediately recall the name (it wasn't Manufacturers Railroad). The former elevated line is not being utilized for light rial. The existing light rail rline uses Eads Bridge and the former freight subway in St. Louis leading to it.
There's a site I found that had several shots of a switch engine trundling ...I was hoping to see this for myself... live and learn. Thanks for the info.
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