Missouri Sneak Peek for 1-18-13
For years the Wabash operated a mixed train as many as 3 times a day each way between Columbia, MO and Centralia, and connection there to the STL-KC mainline. N&W continued to run this train once a day after the 1964 merger, and it is seen here in Centralia in 1967. GP7 2446 is…
Winter is here and Rails Around Missouri rolls on to another train show. This weekend, February 1-2, we’ll be at the Great Train Expo at the St Charles Convention Center, located on the south I-70 outer road just went of the 5th St exit. Show times are 10-4 both days. We have exactly 7 copies left…
“Rails Around Missouri” update, March 2011: Slides are streaming in here @ KG headquarters in Ballwin. Over 200 slides have been scanned and returned already, but most are from eastern Missouri, with most of those within a 50 mile radius of St Louis, plus a good amount from Rolla. What is still needed are slides…
Rails Around Missouri has a busy Thanksgiving weekend with 2 train shows in St Louis (Collinsville IL) and Kansas City. First up is the Great Train Expo, Saturday 11/30 and Sunday 12/1 at the Gateway Center in Collinsville. Show times are 10-4. Photo above is by Daniel Schroeder, 7-14-80. Second is the Mid America Train…
Thirteen miles southwest of Marceline is Mendon, in Chariton County. Being a very rural farming community, Mendon was and still is a tiny town, featuring several grain silos, two signal bridges and at once time, a depot. On April 19, 1981, Santa Fe C30-7 # 8025 rushes an eastbound manifest through the signal bridges, headed…
Franklin, at milepost 189, was the site of a large yard and trainmaster’s office. The yard facilities included a roundhouse, back shop, water treatment plant, car department, scales, and diesel servicing. Leon Sapp was the MKT Trainmaster for this division around 1970, and according to Leon, the yard here was large but underutilized. Rail was…