Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Kansas City, MO: CB&Q+Chicago & Alton and Kansas City Terminal Roundhouses

CB&Q/GM&O: (Satellite, it is long gone)
KCT: (Satellite, it is extant)

Rick Denton commented on Doug's post below

Doug Hitchcock posted
Browsing through a huge album of historic Kansas City photographs, I stumbled across this!
The roundhouse at bottom right is for the Chicago & Alton Railroad, later acquired by the Baltimore & Ohio.
[There are several comments about the foundations of a roundhouse at Francis.]
Dennis DeBruler According to the 2005 SPV Map, Francis was the junction about two miles east of Mexico, MO, where the CB&Q joined the C&A route to KC. The CB&Q shared the C&A route to access Kansas City. The C&A route is now owned by KCS. BN abandoned the CB&Q route.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer...

Dennis DeBruler commented on Doug's post
The C&A went along the south side of a MoPac route into KC.
1935 Kansas City & North Kansas City and 1934 Independence Quadrangles @ 1:24,000

Dennis DeBruler commented on Doug's post
The "Chicago & Alton" label in the upper right corner is the closest label I could find to the roundhouse area. I wonder if C&A shared it with CB&Q. Or did CB&Q trains use their ASB bridge to terminate north of the river? CB&Q had two more routes enter the KC area on the north side of the river.
I'm really disappointed that the roundhouse doesn't show up on the topo map. Most topo maps show roundhouses. Especially at the 1:24,000 scale.
1935 Kansas City Quadrangle @ 1:24,000
https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/.../abs-cb-1911...

Rick Denton commented on Doug's post
Same bldg on left.
Doug Hitchcock Thank you! Fantastic shot. That flood led to lots of changes in Kansas City railroading.

David Kimball posted
Here’s a shot from the Bluffs of the ICG/GMO yard in Kansas City circa ’79 or ’80. The boxcars represent so many of our fallen flags. (John A. Kimball)
Ted Lyons: I spy:
Burlington/Burlington Northern,
The Rock,
Frisco,
Santa Fe,
Nickel Plate,
Great Northern,
And of course, IC.
Did I miss any?
David Kimball: Ted Lyons Northern Pacific
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Kansas City Terminal Roundhouse


Sam Greenup posted two photos with the comment: "Kansas City Terminal Railway Company Roundhouse was built in 1914. It was abandoned in the 1970's. It was restored and converted into office space in the 2000s and vacated in 2020. The black and white picture is from 1932."
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