From Richard Crabtree on the Frisco Rails Across Missouri Facebook group: Here we see Frisco Bull Moose No. 2103 built by General Electric in ~1910, on the Cape Girardeau to Poplar Bluff Run on the Hoxie Sub.
My grandpa probably rode on that very one. Do not you think it served Zalma in the early 1930s as well since it was located between Cape and Poplar Bluff? He told me how funny the horn sounded.
Wonder if the photo is post-1912? I know the old All Aboard magazines had 2100-2109 assigned to the High Line at least thru 1912. http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/ho-train-20-21-consist.2857/#post-18110
That scenery and bridge look amazingly like the ramp/trestle and bridge crossing the channel between Richardson and Greenbrier! This photo is probably taken early, maybe 1918ish, and a little closer to the bank of the channel. The original track, or spur or construction siding at Richardson is on the ground beside the trestle which was built to raise the Zalma Branch tracks up and over the newly constructed Diversion Channel. Perhaps your photo is taken shortly before abandonment which was 1934. I could be totally wrong but you must admit it is a very similar scene. I’m sure there were several trestles built to accommodate the channel’s banks.
