QUOTE: Originally posted by jlheiz Does anyone know of any books or pictures of the Peabody Shortline. I am looking for pictures of the cabooses they had.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Carrales QUOTE: Originally posted by jlheiz Does anyone know of any books or pictures of the Peabody Shortline. I am looking for pictures of the cabooses they had. Try this... http://www.lepeabody.com/index.html
QUOTE: Originally posted by BMTRAINS http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-p/pbcc-fm-ags.jpg is peabody Short line same as peabody coal??
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
QUOTE: Originally posted by PHARMD98233 I used to live a block away from the Peabody Shortline tracks in Belleville, IL. They ran ALCO RS's usually in sets of 2 or 3 engines. The engines were painted in the same color scheme as the hoppers. I do not recall anything about the cabeese. The Shortline was owned by Peabody Coal. It seems like there is a railroad historical society which covers the lines which coursed through that area. The owner of RED BOARD Hobby in Belleville, IL is probably a good resource to contact for information on the society.
QUOTE: Originally posted by PHARMD98233 usmcgunny0369 I lived off of 59th street in Belleville. It is now called Frank Scott Parkway. I often played at the trestle over the Southern tracks. Go Maroons!
Hi- It's nice to know that there is another PSL enthusiast out there. There was a nice article in "Trains " magazine in Feb, 1960 about the PSL's yellow scheme. I beleive that is correct. I have been trying to find out what kind of caboose was used also. I talked with owner of Red Board Hobbies in Belleville, IL, and he said that they used no caboose. Instead, there was a hopper that had a small square compartment attached to the rear of the last hopper. I have seen illustrations of them on my train simulators, but not the actual Peabody hopper/caboose. I'm a fanatic with TRAINZ Simulator. I have been trying to recreate the PSL for years. I've been in love with the PSL for over 50 years, and to this day, still walk the old roadbed, collecting spikes. The PSL used to travel behind my grade school ( Union School ) in 1960, when I was 10 years old. Because of high weeds and trees, only the top 4 or 5 ft. of the engines were visible. I do remember the ultra-smoky, noisy Alco RS2;s, and the low-sounding horn. I couldn't remeber the paint scheme until I saw the TRAINS issue at a train show 15 years ago. I was always fascinated how the PSL literally went right through people's backyards, and struggled along at 10 mph. There were 2 trains. One had 2 units, # 702 & 703, pulling 42 hoppers. The other was a single unit, # 701. Here is a link to a YouTube RS-3, so that you can hear the horn that Peabody used. It was a " Leslie A-200 ". If you live in the Belleville area, feel free to give me a call if you have any questions, or additional comments. I'll purchase the TRAINS issue next time I see it, and I'll contact you, if you'd like. I don't know if you're aware of what happened to the engines. Once the I.C.R.R. took over, they painted them in their black paint scheme, and used them as switchers at the switchyard in E. St. Louis. Eventually, the were traded to EMD, and that's all I know. A few years ago, I purchased original blueprints on Ebay, for small PSL buildings that were along the route between Freeburg and E. St. Louis. There was another magazine article on the PSL. The Terminal R.R. Association has a monthly magazine, and the PSL was on the front cover, with a nice article. I guessing it's from about 13 years ago. Check out train shows, or talk with seniors that live next to the old right-of-way, they may remeber what kind of caboose was used. Years ago I considered hypnosis, just to remember what the train looked like. Had I not been 10 years old, I'd probably remember. I still go to the playground at Union School, hoping to jog my memory. I hope that I've been some help. -B.J. Schulte, Belleville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUXeYmKjBY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIeUxi7c_Nc&NR=1
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leslie_A200-156.ogg
I'm gonna bet you dollars to donuts that, since it really was a short line, they probably purchased cast-offs from Class 1s and they didn't have two cabooses that looked the same. Why don't you buy a generic shaped caboose, paint and decal it, and you will have a better than average chance of hitting something on the head/
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
Found this: http://www.greenfrog.com/carson_picrom14.shtml I don't know if it's worth it or not, but it's 7 minutes of Peabody, so there's a chance a caboose or two will show up. I just don't know if it would be yours.
Are we sure they even had them, cabeece I mean?
-Morgan
Here is a link with more information to confirm that Peabody Shortline was absorbed by Illinois Central =>
http://www.tdf23.info/html/Railroads/PeabodyShortLine.htm
Dean S May
The "River King" mine was located a few miles north east of Freeburg, Illinois.
Peabody had a huge coal preperation plant there for almost 45 years. It cleaned coal from the large strip mines east and soouth of Freeburg. The strip mines used haulage trucks to deliver the coal from the pit to the plant until they were closed in the late 1970's.
Next to the prep plant was the "River King Underground #1" mine. The RKU#1 used the tipple until it closed. The entire plant is gone and only the remnants of the shops and offices are left of the RKU#1.
The PSL ran from the prep plant to the Peabody Coal docks on the Mississippi River directly across from the Gateway Arch. The coal dock was on the East St. Louis side of the river. It is now a grain terminal.
Bowser/Stewart has released Peabody Short Line Baldwin AS-16 HO locomotives, both with and without Tsunami sound, in road numbers 2234 and 2239.
Atlas Trainman HO models of Peabody Coal hoppers are available sometimes on e-Bay as 2 and 3 car sets. Model Power, Athearn, Tyco, and Lionel have released Peabody Coal hopper HO models in the past, and I believe Lionel even had O scale models of them.
I have been searching for an HO scale model of a Peabody caboose but have come up empty handed. A couple of copper mine short lines in Arizona use hoppers with a crew member's compartment on the end and a horn to sound a warning at grade crossings when backing up in place of a caboose, which may be similar to what Peabody used.
"And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River, where Paridise Lay. Well I'm sorry my son, but your too late in asking, Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
Paradise ©John Prine
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
AnonymousDoes anyone know of any books or pictures of the Peabody Shortline. I am looking for pictures of the cabooses they had.
The only peabody man still is donnie echert and he now has altzeimers ,he was a car knocker for the old peabody rr later when to work for icrr,peabody en held dual senority .They could work on railroad as well as in mine.The icrr did not have to offer these men when they brought the railroad,but they did.The icrr was a good raiklroad to work for.I had the pleasure to work with several of these men .