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June 30, 2018 at 10:48 pm #6090princessclyne69Participant
I ran across a postcard on eBay showing the “Missouri Pacific Passenger Depot at Boonville, Mo.”. Here’s the listing:
Item number 202336000965
First, can anyone identify the orientation of the photo? There’s an interchange track behind the station, and the platform is laid out as if this is at the junction with the Katy, but there looks as if there is no track on the Katy side.
The Wikipedia entry for Boonville has a couple of paragraphs about the railroad and about the Katy Trail, parts of which look to me like total nonsense. There is a good photo of the preserved Boonville Katy station, with the bridge visible in the background, but of course it isn’t the same structure as in the photo. My guess is that it’s newer than 1911.
Advice appreciated.
RG7
July 1, 2018 at 2:04 pm #8852Bud MossParticipantThis is looking southwest. The wye for the Boonville Branch has the local on it. The River sub mainline in in the front. Jerry Michels
July 1, 2018 at 2:06 pm #8853Bud MossParticipantRon, The KATY would be to the right, dropping down south as it came off the bridge. The MP/MKT interchange would be to the south. JErry
July 1, 2018 at 2:25 pm #8854mopacKeymasterRon,
The MP Station is inside a wye interchange with the MKT coming up from the southwest. The MKT crossed the Missouri River just west of MP Station. Here is the track layout:
https://www.historicaerials.com/location/38.97592531967359/-92.75053024291992/T1979/16
Gene
July 1, 2018 at 7:48 pm #8855Bud MossParticipant@MoPac1 wrote:
Ron,
The MP Station is inside a wye interchange with the MKT coming up from the southwest. The MKT crossed the Missouri River just west of MP Station. Here is the track layout:
https://www.historicaerials.com/location/38.97592531967359/-92.75053024291992/T1979/16
Gene
Gene, I don’t think this is the MKT interchange, but rather the end of the Boonville Branch/Versailles Sub. The MKT interchange was farther south.
Jerry
July 6, 2018 at 6:11 pm #8856mopacKeymasterJerry, a check of circular 176-P dated 6-1-1965, shows both MP and MKT switching Boonville with only two industries having a single railroad switching them. One MP and one MKT. the rest are open to either. The next interchange with MP and the MKT would be Sedalia. From Boonville the MKT heads southwest and the MP pretty much due south joining the St. Louis to Sedalia main line at Tipton. Gene
July 7, 2018 at 12:19 am #8859peggyrothschildParticipantGene
Having two railroads serving a customer in a tariff doesn’t mean they physically both served them. If a customer was open to both roads this mean the MKT could get an origin waybill out of the Industry on the MP and the MP only received an origin switch charge. On the reverse the MKT retained the waybill and the MP just got delivery switch revenue vs road haul revenue. I can only think of a few customers that physically had two roads having access that being International Paper at their plants. -
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