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…
This weekend “Rails Around Missouri” will be in LaPlata, MO for the Silver Rails train show at the Depot Inn. To commemorate that, here is a series of shots that are in and not in the book. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway built through Missouri in 1887 on its way from Kansas City…
“On a cold December morning in 1980, frost covers the roadbed as Santa Fe SD45 #5575 leads a westbound trailer train through Henrietta. The Santa Fe is in process of converting their TOFC equipment from 89′ flatcars to “Fuel Foiler” articulated spine cars, which reduced train weight and improved fuel efficiency. Note the long string…