Rusty Traque - the 1971 photos of the Peabody cars was taken at Freeburg and they don't represent the cars used in the early years on the PSL. By 1971 the IC Railroad was handling the Peabody shipments to East St. Louis. The cars in the picture were most likely those used between the Randolph County Preparation Plant and the Baldwin Power Plant - no idea why they were in Freeburg, unless possibly there was an outage at the prep plant. The overhead conveyor that you see in one of the pictures is coming from the River King #1 Underground Mine, that was on the same general site as the tipple you see in the background of the first photo.
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