Monday, February 26, 2024

Camden, AR: Preserved/MoPac/SIMS and Lost/Cotton Belt Depots

MoPac: (Satellite)
Cotton Belt+Rock Island: (Satellite, I presume RI shared the depot since it shared the tracks.)


SIMS = St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway

According to a Google Map label, the Chamber of Commerce now uses this building.

Track side.
Street View, Apr 2014

Street side. You can tell by the doors that the freight handling part was at the near end.
Street View, Jun 2013

Mark Donald posted two photos with the comment:
Missouri Pacific Passenger Depot. Then and Now. Constructed in 1904 by St. Louis Iron Mountain Southern. 
Camden, Arkansas.  Tracks were ripped in 2000/01
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The other route through town was the Cotton Belt. The Rock Island used that route to access this town, which terminated the RI branch. This map does mark the location of the MoPac depot, which made it easy to find it on a satellite image since it is extant.
1951 Camden Quad @ 24,000

Cotton Belt + Rock Island:
Raymond Storey posted
CAMDEN ARK

Paul Luchter commented on Raymond's post
Nice map shows CRI&P Camden as terminus of a line south out of Hot Colorado Springs, Colorado.


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