Turner, MO depot. Willow Springs Subdivision mile post C212. Photograph dated 1951. Photograph from previous All Aboard magazines. Currently in collection of the Frisco Building, LLC. Posted with permission. Edit 3/31/2024: The water tower sat railroad north, geographic west at this point, of the depot. Between the depot and the water tower is the grade crossing with Farm Road 148. The water tower footings remained in place long after the structure and depot were removed. The footings finally were dug out in late 1979 or early 1980. MKD
Turner, MO depot. Floor plan dated 1916 from Frisco Modelers Information Group (FMIG) Newsletter NL 32 January 1982. Courtesy of Ron Williams.
Turner, MO depot. Whatever you call it Turner - Turners, MO - Turners Station See thread below. http://www.frisco.org/vb/showthread.php?t=2332&highlight=turner Here are some photographs of the depot site, station sign, East Farm Road 148 grade crossing signal equipment bungalow or cabinet at mile post (MP) 211.6, the Turners Station Mercantile and Deli store / U.S. Post Office 65765-9998 and 1912 water tower. Photographs dated 2009, except the 1912 water tower photographer unknown. Edit 3/31/2024: In the third photograph in the distance to the left of the signal equipment bungalow, cabinet or shed the bridge is State Highway J. Just to the north or right it forms a T shaped intersection with States Highway D. To the right of the metal shed is East Farm Road 146 rising to its T shaped intersection with Highway D. In just 3.7 miles to the west at U.S. 65 Highway, State Highway D turns into East Sunshine Street in Springfield, MO. MKD
Thanks for the photographs of the Turner depot area. Sorry that I have not checked in for a while. I have not been there for a few years, so it is good to see how things have changed or stayed the same. The old general store and post office look pretty much the same way they did when I was a kid, 50 years ago. The one change I noticed was there used to be gas pumps instead of a signal out front.
From Richard Crabtree on the Frisco Rails Across Missouri Facebook group. Here we are at the Frisco depot for Turners, Missouri aka Turners Station. In 1882 Edy Turner would give the Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis (aka Frisco) a right of way though the family's land and land to build a depot. That depot and water tower was complete in 1883. They would later build a section house dwelling as well to house railroad workers. This would become the a busy mainline from Kansas City to Memphis and would eventually connect to Birmingham, AL and Pensacola, FL. Turners Station Mercantile in Turner, MO would be built across the road in 1889. This would be a great stop for the Frisco Railroaders to wet their whistle and passengers as well. Many of Springfield's high school and college students would come through here on field and class trips in the early part of the last century. Unfortunately nothing remains of the depot and water tower, but we do have photographs! Photo 1) The original 1883 Frisco depot at Turner, MO, repainted in a newer scheme. Photo 2) The Frisco depot blueprint - courtesy of Missouri State University (MSU) Digital Collection. Photo 3) We are at Turner, MO at the Frisco depot. We can see Frisco steam engine SLSF 511 a 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler, built in 1893 for the Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis (KCS&M) - Luann Turner Musgrave, Turner Family Archives. Photo 4) Here we see a Frisco locomotive rounding the bend after leaving Turner, MO running at mile post (MP) 209 near Pierson Creek. Courtesy Springfield-Greene County Library.
I can see some confusion here. In the Southern Division ETT 34 February 4 1945, MP 211.7 is listed as Turner. Yet the name of the town according to the U.S. Post Office is Turners, MO 65765. Karl, do you mean Turners, Arkansas which is MP 249.1 Station TW248?
It is interesting to note that Turners Arkansas shows on only one of the lists that is posted in the Frisco Lists of Stations sub-forum. It shows only in the Frisco List of Stations #18 May 1, 1926 and not in the Frisco List of Stations #17 July 15, 1920, or the list from the Public Timetable, November 1929. Nor does it show up in River Division ETT #12 July 19, 1925.
