Thanks Ted! I will have to find the ICC Evaluation report again. I think it had over a dozen pages. If you have a web address for that, please post it. I noticed that there was no spur to Buick on this map. Either it had been removed or constructed later.
https://books.google.com/books?id=VM1DAAAAIAAJ This book has a lot on the Sligo & Eastern and the Iron County Central. Is this what you’re looking for?
Thanks Jacob & Ted! I still have not found the 1917 valuation map of the Sligo & Eastern, includes Sligo Furnace Co. and Iron County Central ???
There is another map that popped-up from Jacob Stotler's Salem Branch Research Team. It fits in with Explorer Chris' very nice collection. It is a Rand McNally rairoad map. It also shows Buick as part of the Sligo & Eastern Railroad. I just saw a place named Doyle between Bixby and East End. Rolun was east of East End. I am amazed that Rand McNally knew so much about details. How did they do that? I include the Sligo Furnace Railroad and the Sligo & Eastern Railroad as part of the Salem Branch which is seen on some of the prior maps. Their routes lead to the Sligo Branch Jct. 1980 (became Goltra jct. in 1898) on the mainline of the Salem Branch. This is the only way to get to Cuba and St. Louis from northwest Iron County. This map is part of a larger Rand McNally railroad map covering all of Missouri. Note the Rulon was east of East End. Never heard of that. Rand McNally is very good with their quality of contents. ..................... https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/735856
Jacob, Yes. pp 154 to 172! Lots of stuff. How I see why accountants went nutty within a dozen years. With mining and logging railroading, things changed fast. Done with a site, rip it up and relocate the rails to the next jobsite. Makes it hard to research what all what went on. Thanks
continous topo map showing of Crawford, Phelps, Dent and Iron counties. 1:24,000-scale topographic maps Scroll around, it will show "tracks" and "old railroad grade" as of the date of issue . live tracks BN +------+------+------+-----+ date of issue Oct. 24, 1980 old railroad grade - - - - - - - - - - - - - - https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/735856 At the bottom of this link leads to a topo map that can be zoomed in or zoomed out and in any direction.
Map is before 1907 and after 1898 when Edward purchased Sligo Furnace Company. Wesco was first named Wilson's Mills, after James Wilson, the proprietor of a local mill. A post office called Wilsons Mills was established in 1877, and the name was changed to Wesco in 1907. The present name is a contraction of the Western Electric Supply Company, a telephone utility.
I've enjoyed following along with this "discovery" thread. There were several interesting branches off the Frisco (often acquired by the Frisco), that I find fascinating. This line is one of them. (As well as the Chadwick line, etc.) Andre
