TRRA H&TS Magazine
Issue 79 - 2019

This 132 page issue focuses on the Manufacturers Railway Company

The Editor's Page
      Page 2

The Beer Baron's Railway
      The story of the Manufacturers Railway
      Scott Muskopf
      Pages 6-35, 41-67, 76-97, 100-101, 108-109, with color & B&W photos, advertising, multiple locomotive rosters, maps, lists of industries served and public delivery tracks, special coverage of the St. Louis & O'Fallon railway, Nooter Boiler, American Car & Foundry, towers, TRRA Junction, Monsanto, and more

Welcoming Home the Patriarch
      Adolphus Busch Was More than the Company President
      Lawrence Thomas
      Pages 36-40, with car and brewery photos on a fold-out

M-K 253 - "It had good brakes!"
      Page 68, with color photos

The Morrison-Knudsen Experiment
      Pages 69-70, with color photos

Mt. Vernon Car Company Cabooses
      Pages 71-75, with color photos, car diagrams, and advertising

Car Movements on the Manufacturers Railway
      From the 1921 Report of the Engineers Committee St. Louis-East St. Louis Railroad Terminals
      Pages 98-99, with map

St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company
      Scott Muskopf
      Pages 102-105, with color & B&W photos

Round Roof Freight Cars
      Pages 106-107, with B&W photos

Lesperance Yard and South St. Louis
      Norbert Shacklette
      Pages 110-114, with B&W photos, and system map & railroad logos on a fold-out

Remembering the Green Train at Union Station
      Dan Dewes
      Page 115, with color photos

Manufacturers Railway Company
      Pages 116-117, with color photos

Western Cable Railway
      Lemp Had a Railroad, Too
      Scott Muskopf
      Pages 118-123, with photos and brewerey & trackage map

End Notes and Sources
      Pages 124-126

Miscellaneous
      Pages 127-130, with drawing of "new" A-B brew house, "Thank You" to Society members, In Memorium, color A-B "A & Eagle" logo

Acknowledgements
      Page 131

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