Rails Around Missouri inventory almost 3/4 sold out! If you are still “thinking about it”, don’t wait too much longer as the inventory sits at just under 300 copies left out of 1000. The Frisco cover has only 100 copies remaining, and the KCS cover sits at 192 copies remaining here at “Rails” in Ballwin, Missouri….
“The Illinois Central offered Chicago – St Louis service in the form of the Green Diamond and the Daylight. Both trains made daily round trips between the two cities, with the Green Diamond originating in St Louis, and the Daylight originating in Chicago. The Daylight is seen arriving in St Louis in October 1949 behind…
When it came to picking a shot for the cover of Rails Around Missouri that might best represent the Kansas City side of the state, the logical choice of railroad was the Kansas City Southern. Photographer Allen Maty spent a lot of time in Grandview shooting the KCS, and had provided quite a few…
Ten miles east of the Osage River bridge is the town of Meta, where the Rock Island had a depot with a train order office. Eastbound train #74 was scheduled out of Eldon at 10:35pm and due through Meta at 11:12pm. With bad track conditions, the train often passed through Meta in daylight hours….
The Bevier & Southern was a coal-hauling shortline in northern Missouri, and connected with the CB&Q at Bevier, 5 miles west of Macon. While the end of the line was only 9 miles away to the south at the Binkley mine, the B&S at one time operated 64 miles of track to local mines,…