Weir City (aka Weir), KS, Parsons Subdivision, Weir Branch, MP 140.5, Parsons Subdivision, MP 145.2

Weir City, KS depot.

1915 Sanborn Map.

 

Weir City, KS.

St. Louis-San Francisco Railway depot, Weir City, Kansas.

Not quite sure where this is exactly, but some great wood box cars in the photograph.

This photograph shows the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway depot in Weir City, Kansas.

The structure was located on the Northern Division, Coal Branch, Parsons Subdivision at milepost 145.2.

Photograph date 1959.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/display.php?item_id=97147&f=00677739

Kansas Memory Web Site, Kansas Historical Society

 

I grabbed this postcard from e-Bay, but am not entirely sure which Weir depot it represents.

I know the old Pittsburg and Columbus (P&C) Railroad depot still stands as a house, but not sure when the one on the Weir Branch was razed.

 

Some Schedules from Weir, KS. Weir Journal newspaper clippings.

Weir Journal 1889.



Weir Journal, June 6, 1895. News of new passenger service.



1896 train schedule. Weir Journal, February 5, 1896.



Schedule from 1901. Weir City Journal.



Weir train schedule 1905. Weir Journal, March 10, 1905.



Weir train schedule 1906. Weir Journal, May 24, 1906.



Weir 1910 train schedule. Weir Journal, January 1910.



Weir 1915 train schedule. Weir Journal.

 

News of service merging to a single depot previously Frisco and KCFS&M, Weir Journal, May 31, 1903.



News on reconfiguration July 24, 1903.

 

Notes on merging of tracks and change of traffic in southeastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri. Weir Journal, 1901.