Photo of the Week – May 29, 2017 – St. Louis ???

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  • May 30, 2017 at 12:51 pm #5932
    Dennis Faircloth
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    This week’s photo features MP open autoracks, a tractor with MP logo, and brand new Ford pickup trucks.

    With “Manchester” on the brick smokestack, surely someone can give us the location. St Louis area?

    How about a guess on the year based upon the pickup truck model?

    [attachment=0:73ebdf31]POTW 2017-05-30 21-011.jpg[/attachment:73ebdf31]

    May 31, 2017 at 1:44 pm #8333
    mopac
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    1961-1963 based on the Ford body type.

    June 1, 2017 at 8:06 pm #8337
    peggyrothschild
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    There was a Ford plant in north St Louis in Hazelwood on the N&W and a web search says they did build trucks there in 1961 so St. Louis maybe a good guess. It opened in 1948 and closed in 2006. Plant demolished in 2009.

    June 3, 2017 at 4:43 am #8340
    clemmie_doris12
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    Given the MP truck and the Ford vehicles on the ground, I would speculate that this was an inbound unloading facility. It may have been next to a piggyback ramp. That would help explain the MP tractor.

    June 4, 2017 at 12:28 pm #8344
    luisflierl26
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    Early 70’s Ford Courrier pick ups – made by Mazda in Japan and imported.

    June 4, 2017 at 6:40 pm #8345
    Dennis Faircloth
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    Thanks David for indentifying the truck model….something just did not look right about the styling for a domestic-built Ford.

    So there is a Manchester district and street in both Kansas City and St Louis. I am pretty familiar with the Manchester district in KC, and nothing in the photo lines up with that area. I am thinking this is St Louis near Chouteau Ave or Sarpy Ave area. I need a native who remembers the brick stack. That gray shape behind the first autorack is a grain elevator with Purina markings on top. So here are two more photos from different angles.

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    June 4, 2017 at 9:06 pm #8346
    clemmie_doris12
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    That’s definitely not in Kansas City. So, my best guess would be St. Louis. Now that we have the pickup truck model corrctly identified, it has to be an unloading facility for sure. Does anyone know the location for MP piggyback ramp in this area during this time frame? Or, it could be a stand alone auto ramp and they are using standard semi-trailers instead of the modern method which utilizes a modified tractor and a pintle type hitch.

    June 4, 2017 at 9:59 pm #8347
    luisflierl26
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    Any chance this is a port town like New Orleans or Houston since these are import trucks?

    I have never seen a Manchester stack in any St Louis photos, however Manchester Road is a main road.

    June 10, 2017 at 3:55 am #8342
    clemmie_doris12
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    My money says this is the intermodal area off Sarpy Ave. near Vandeventer Ave. There is a mill to the northwest of this complex and there used to be a smokestack near here, at one time. See the photo below which was taken looking south down Vandeventer Ave.from Clayton Ave. Manchester Ave. intersects with Vandeventer at the approximate location of the smokestack in the photo.
    [attachment=0:2pglrxza]St.-Louis2-600×404.jpg[/attachment:2pglrxza]

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