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Milwaukee Road in Kansas City |
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CMStP&P L-2 class Mikado 8255 sits by the road's Coburg roundhouse in 1936 in this shot by Charles Winters. The L-2 was a freight standard for the Milwaukee Road; the road acquiring 380 from Alco, Baldwin and its own shops from 1912 through 1923. 8255 came out of Baldwin in 1920 and would later be renumbered as 555. The L-2 class was the largest Milwaukee steam power on their KC line for years; as of 1944 they were rated for 3250 tons eastbound to the first crew change point, at Laredo and only 2250 westbound. |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/1936 Upload Date: 4/8/2015 6:33:15 PM |
| Location: |
Kansas City, MO |
| Author: |
Charles Winters |
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Steam |
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MILW 8255(2-8-2) |
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Shelby County No.4 |
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Shelby County no.4, a Ten Wheeler out of Baldwin (41012, 12/13) and the last power the road bought. SHC opened in 1907 and operated almost 30 miles of track from the connection with the CB&Q at Shelbina to Novelty in Knox County. The road had three locomotives when it was closed in 1938. It's last "train" was a White motor car running in March 1938. There are very few signs of this outfit left now. Date Approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1936 Upload Date: 5/18/2013 9:04:57 PM |
| Location: |
Shelbina, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Steam |
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SHC 4(4-6-0) |
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| Title: |
Shelby County no.3 |
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Shelby County no.3, a Davenport-built 4-4-0 (1187, 5/12); rusting in peace at Shelbina Mo after the road's closure. The Shelby County RR was formed in 1906 to run from Shelbina to Shelbyville and eventually to Novelty as the Shelby Northwestern. The two roads operated as one and survived untiil 1938 when they were abandoned. Date approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1940 Upload Date: 5/18/2013 9:04:20 PM |
| Location: |
Shelbina, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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| Title: |
Hannibal Connecting |
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The Hannibal Connecting RR was built in 1902 to connect the large, new Atlas Portland Cement plant at Ilasco with Hannibal, about three miles north. Although the CB&Q ran alongside their tracks, the line allowed Atlas to connect with the Katy and St Louis & Hannibal as well as the Burlington. The HC never had more than four steam locomotives at any one time, all supposedly 0-6-0Ts, with three on line by World War II. Diesels, first ex-Army Whitcombs and then a pair of Alco S1s, came in about 1947 and the line continued until abandoned in 1966. This shot appears to show the entire roster sitting in front of the road's brick engine house, which still stands in 2013. Number 2 may be a Manchester-built 0-6-0T from 1902. the date listed is pure speculation. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1941 Upload Date: 8/2/2013 8:53:07 PM |
| Location: |
Ilasco, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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HC 2(0-6-0) |
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| Title: |
Milwaukee Road in Missouri |
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The caption on this shot says it’s Cowgill, Missouri; 53 miles east of Kansas City in Caldwell County. Milwaukee Road L-2 class 2-8-2 475 is holding the main as it approaches the short siding on its way to KC. L-2 class Mikes were among the largest steamers the MILW used on this route; it’s rated for 2700 tons from the crew change point at Laredo to Braymer, about six miles behind the train. From Braymer to KC it’s rated at 2250 tons. Joint trackage with the Rock Island is only about six miles ahead, at Polo. I suspect the picture was taken about 1948 or 49. |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1948 Upload Date: 11/30/2015 9:54:09 PM |
| Location: |
Cowgill, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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| Title: |
Missouri Mogul |
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Number 9 here is a Porter-built 2-6-0 that personifies the many little lumber operations that were found in Missouri's Bootheel region for many years. In this case it belongs to Himmelberger-Harris, a prosporous narrow gauge (36")operation that was centered at Morehouse MO. This undated shot appears to be taken late in life as earlier photos show a different tender and legible markings. Porter No.9; (6622, 1/21) |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1950 Upload Date: 11/5/2011 6:19:36 PM |
| Location: |
Morehouse, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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| Title: |
St Joseph Terminal 0-6-0 4440 |
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St Joseph Terminal 6-wheeled switcher 4440 was acquired from the UP in 1947. StJT operated the yard used by the UP (St Joseph & Grand Island) and ATSF in its named city. The road dieselized in 1950 with a pair of SW1s. (SJT 4440: Baldwin 48274 4/18) The real date is unknown. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1950 Upload Date: 11/18/2011 4:34:39 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Joseph, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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SJT 4440(0-6-0) |
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| Title: |
St. Louis & Troy |
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In 1933 the St. Louis & Hannibal RR abandoned its entire southern section; 53 miles from Bowling Green to Gilmore, MO. The small, Lincoln County town of Troy, Missouri, anxious to keep rail service, bought the 4 mile portion to the CB&Q connection at Moscow Mills. The new road, the St.Louis & Troy, operated for 27 years before being abandoned in 1960. Final power was this 20 ton Plymouth JLT, bought new in 1946 (5385, 6/47). It's shown here near the end before reportedly heading on to Dundee Cement in Des Plaines IL. |
| Photo Date: |
9/19/1960 Upload Date: 10/27/2011 7:33:22 PM |
| Location: |
Troy, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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SLT 11(20-ton) |
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| Title: |
Columbia Mixed |
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For many years the Wabash and then the N&W ran a mixed train several times a day from the college town of Columbia MO to the main at Centralia. In this case it's 10:30 AM as N&W train no.32 departs for the 22 mile run up to Centralia, where it will meet wesbound train no.203, the City of Kansas City and eastbound no.210, the City of St Louis. By 1968 they were down to two each way daily; the service lasted through April 1969, only about six months after Ozark Airlines finally offered jet service to the new Columbia Regional Airport, with DC-9s and FH-227s replacing the DC-3s that had called on the old Columbia Muni Airport. Power in this shot is NW 2446, a freight GP7 of Nickel Plate ancestry. |
| Photo Date: |
3/10/1967 Upload Date: 10/29/2011 4:01:51 PM |
| Location: |
Columbia, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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NW 2446(GP7) |
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| Title: |
Columbia Yard |
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A view of the small, stub-end yard at Columbia MO in 1967. GP7 2446 sits next to the passenger station prior to running the two-per-day (at that time) train to the main at Centralia. This shot was taken about three years after the N&W took over the Wabash. This tracks were pulled up here in November 1978 and the station was subsequently developed into a transit center. This operation was featured in Kalmbach's "Classic Railroads You Can Model" series. |
| Photo Date: |
3/10/1967 Upload Date: 10/29/2011 4:02:25 PM |
| Location: |
Columbia, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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NW 2446(GP7) |
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| Title: |
Coming Out of the House |
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N&W C425 1002 leads a pair of U-boats out of the Moberly engine house in a George Drake photo. Prior to the A&M, Century-series Alcos were never particularly common in Missouri; this one was ordered by Wabash and delivered to N&W after the 1964 merger. |
| Photo Date: |
2/28/1968 Upload Date: 3/17/2015 6:08:21 PM |
| Location: |
Moberly, MO |
| Author: |
George Drake |
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NW 1002(C425) |
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| Title: |
The City of St Louis |
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The City of St Louis was innagurated in June 1946 with the Wabash handling the train from St Louis to Kansas City and the UP taking it to points west, including Denver, Cheyenne and through cars to the West Coast. In June 1968 Wabash's successor, the NW, cut all through service and ran it only between Missouri's two largest cities. It was finally anulled in mid-1969 leaving MP as the only road to continue to offer St Louis and Kansas City service, where there had at one time been four. (Rock Island and CB&Q/GM&O being the others). This shot, supposedly by George Drake, shows it approaching Moberly behind N&W E8A 3815 (the former WAB 1015) in February 1969. Consist late in its life is an N&W heavyweight diner, two coaches and a pair of baggage cars. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1969 Upload Date: 3/13/2015 10:17:14 PM |
| Location: |
Moberly, MO |
| Author: |
George Drake |
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NW 3815(E8A) |
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| Title: |
On the Frisco's High Line |
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Please forgive the light streaks, but I think this shot personifies the backwoods Frisco in Missouri. This is the tri-weekly local on the Kansas City to Springfield "High Line" with only three cars, a company 40' box, a covered hopper and a flatcar carrying farm implements before the caboose. Power is a single GP7, steam boiler-equipped 610 in this case, which would end up with Amtrak five years later. Although the shorter route between KC and the road's hub city, the High Line saw only locals at this point as the mainline took the longer route over better track through Ft Scott and Lamar. This train is at Brownington, about ten miles south of Clinton and appears to be headed south, probably near the posted 25MPH limit. Most of this endearing, slow line would be pulled up by 1978. (and in another sign of rural Missouri is the pile of empty Schlitz cans in the foreground) |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1971 Upload Date: 7/16/2013 11:41:34 AM |
| Location: |
Brownington, MO |
| Author: |
EJ |
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SLSF 610(GP7) |
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