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| Jim Pearson Photography posted After spending a couple days railfanning the Kansas City areas, myself and fellow railfan Ryan Scott of Steelrails started our trip back home and decided to railfan our way back which brought us to this scene at Marshall, Missouri on the afternoon of June 30th, 2022. We came here to try and catch something coming through the flyover here where the UP and KCS cross each other, but never made it to the location because we heard from a fellow railfan, Drew Davison, there was a westbound Kansas City Southern fright headed to Marshall. We decided to wait here to get a shot of it passing the old Chicago and Alton Depot here at Marshall. Now, we didn’t expect a 3-4 hour wait, but that’s what it turned out to be, but the shot was well worth it! According to the website roadtrippers.com , The Chicago and Alton Depot, also known as the Illinois Central Gulf Depot, is a historic train station located at Marshall, Saline County, Missouri. It was designed by the noted architect Jarvis Hunt and built in 1906 by the Chicago and Alton Railroad. It is a one-story, brick and stone building with Jacobethan Revival and Mission Revival style design elements. The building measures approximately 113 feet 2 inches in length and 42 feet 11 inches wide. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2500, ISO 100. |
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| John Peterman commented on Jim's post Street side last month Marshall Mo |
I normally note depots that still stand. But the grain elevator also caught my eye.
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I wonder if this used to be a flour mill. I don't see any rail service for this elevator.
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And looking away from the depot down the tracks.
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Since it has a fall protector, this elevator is probably rail serviced. But they must significantly block some road crossings while they load.
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Then I wondered how the C&A got this far west of St. Louis. So I found a C&A map.
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| Source: 1991 Map, © www.MemorialLibrary.com, used with permission and is authorized for this site only, via Dennis DeBruler |
This is another example of the ICG management getting rid of too much of their system. Later, IC bought back the Chicago Central & Pacific, but not this route. This would be the route that CN was making a stink about because they wanted trackage rights as part of the CP+KCS merger agreement.
When I looked up this route in the 2005 SPV Map, I noticed that CB&Q had trackage rights on it. But BNSF did not. I determine that CB&Q joined this route just east of Mexico, MO. The 2005 SPV Map shows that the CB&Q route to St. Louis was abandoned by BN.
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| 1932 Mexico Quad @ 1:62,500 |
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