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@David Harris wrote:
Back in the 1980s my job took me to Salina several times. South of town a few miles was the tiny burg of Bridgeport, where MP had a long passing track along the Pueblo main. UP’s Salina-McPherson branch also paralleled the MP (separated by just a few yards) for 3-4 miles from there into Lindsborg. It was an odd sight – three parallel tracks in the middle of nowhere – with just the Bridgeport elevator to otherwise mark an empty, empty spot. All three tracks are long gone, with little evidence they were ever there.
Good Evening,
This is Jan Groves. I am a new Historical Society, having joined a couple of weeks ago. I read your information about working in the McPherson, Kansas area. I grew up in Elyria, Kansas. I watched the local MoPac train travel through Elyria for years. A great memory from childhood. I have always been curious if MoPac ever had passenger service on this route in the early 1900’s. I am considering modeling the McPherson route on my O scale layout, when I redo it. I would really like to include landscaping in the Elyria area, complete with buildings like the grain elevators, grocery store, and MoPac storage building. In traveling back to Elyria within the last few years, I have noticed that all sidings by the grain elevator have been removed, although the mainline is still used by the K & O railroad.
If you have any information, I would be very interested in visiting with you about it.
Cordially
Jan Groves
