Around the curve west of Crescent is the Frisco’s second crossing of the Meramec River near Eureka on this deck & truss bridge. The line through here was once double-track, evidenced by the wide piers as four GP40-2s lead a freight west across the bridge on June 7, 1980. (Paul Dalman) -Editor’s note: as of this…
At one time, the Moberly branch was actually the MKT mainline to Hannibal. The railroad had a goal of reaching Chicago, and at Hannibal it could connect to the CB&Q. Meanwhile, the Wabash obtained trackage rights over the Moberly-Hannibal segment, and eventually purchased it outright from the Katy in the 1940s, while the Katy retained service…
Around the corner from Sheffield and Tower 8 is Bridge 19, the location of four main tracks with crossovers. The Santa Fe was a main tennant of the KCT trackage through here, from Big Blue Jct., past Union Station to Santa Fe Jct, where home rails were again reached. On May 5, 1979, a…
While the advance copies of “Rails Around Missouri” arrived today, an issue at the printer has set the date for delivery of the entire shipment back a week. The books are now expected to arrive here at KGP in Ballwin around May 6. To cover that, the release date has been pushed back to May…
Belle, at milepost 105, was still an open agency for the Rock Island in 1972. In a classic railroad scene, the agent hands up train orders to westbound train #73 on October 6, 1972. By 1975, Eldon would be the only open agency out on the line between Kansas City and St Louis. (Paul Dalman)…