Depot: (
Satellite, based on the aerial photo below. WI-35 did not exist back then.)
Power Station: (
Satellite)
CB&Q Depot
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David Nelson posted
Here is a 1952 photo of the CB&Q depot in Genoa -- again not a very good photo and I did what I could with it. |
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from WIHAP |
Power Station 3
Because this plant is going to soon be closed, I saved a satellite image.
I zoom in on the barge traffic because I was shocked to learn that this 1969 plant was designed to use Powder River Basin coal delivered by barge. [
PowerMag]
Barge access to this plant is no mystery since it is on the shores of the Mississippi River. But how do you get barge access to the
Powder River Basin? A quick check of the Fort Randall Dam shows it has no locks. That doesn't surprise me since the dams on the Upper Missouri River are supposed to be for flood control. (I say "supposed to be" because in 2019 they favored recreation use instead of flood storage and many farms and towns downriver paid for that decision.) So do they use railroads to get the coal to Sioux City, IA, then shove the barges 734 miles down theMissouri River to the Mississippi, and then shove them many more miles up the Mississippi River to Genoa? [
USACE] A quick look at a map shows that is about three times the distance as the Sioux City to Genoa distance. And that distance is less than half the distance between the Powder River Basin and Genoa.
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