Crystal City, MO: Frisco Depots and Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.

Depot: (Satellite)

Glass Plant: (Satellite, brownland with a few brave trees.)

Richard Crabtree posted five images with the comment:

The Frisco Depots of Crystal City, Missouri

Crystal City, Mo., residents are happily proud of the new Frisco station recently completed in their city. The new building is a one-story combination of passenger and freight facilities and cost $25,000. Its construction is of glazed tile with cement floors. The station contains spacious general waiting room, ticket office, freight and baggage rooms with a four hundred foot long passenger platform of brick, and a wooden freight platform. The roof is of tile. Crystal City has one of the largest plate glass plants in the world within its boundaries-the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company. Glass from this plant is shipped to all parts of the United States and to Canada, Mexico, South America, Cuba and the Philippine Islands.

November 1926 The Frisco Employes' Magazine

Photo 1) Frisco Depot Crystal City, MO 1968

Photo 2) Sanborn Map Crystal City, Missouri 1908 1st depot LOC

Photo 3) Sanborn Map Crystal City, Missouri 1926 2nd Depot LOC

Photo 4) Frisco Depot Crystal City, Mo 1971 Photo Ken McElreath

Photo 5) Frisco Depot Crystal City, Mo 1980

Jim Kelling shared with the comment: "Crystal City, Missouri (Frisco Lines)."

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Note that the water tower in Photo 1 is extant. This is a view of the current BNSF building.

Street View, Aug  2022

Today's building is larger than the 1980 building in Photo 5. One normally does not see a yard office, let alone one that has grown. I wonder what kind of business BNSF does in the area to justify a local office.

 Street View, Aug 2022

1964 Festus Quad @ 24,000 and 1949 Crystal City Quad @ 62,500

PPG appears in a 1985 image. These old images make one appreciate how good today's satellite images are.

Google Earth, Dec 1985

The next available image is 1993, and it is gone. So, we lost more than steel mills and tractor manufacturing in the 1980s.

Google Earth, Oct 1993

So how contaminated is this former Pittsburg Plate Glass land?

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