Over the years I heard there was a Frisco Railway depot at Collins, Missouri. Has anyone ever seen a photograph of it?
see http://missouridepots.com/collins-kccs1910.htm I have an KCCS valuation that gives the dimension of the structure if you are interested.
If you are talking about the round looking sign in front of the bay window, that looks like the blade of the train order signal. John Chambers
I will check and see if I have any dimensional data, but I will not have time for that until after this weekend's Ozark Model Railroad Association (OMRA) train show in Springfield, MO.
A valuation report of the KCCS lists the depot at Collins as being a 1-story, frame 20' x 43' structure with a concrete block foundation. It had a 240 square feet elevated wood platform and a 3600 square feet cinder platform. Collins also boasted a 5' x 8' two compartment privy, an 8' x 14' coal house and a 2 pen stockyard.
What he said! There is also a notation in the valuation report that appears in valuation descriptions of many KCC&S depots and which has always puzzled me, "T. haul". It is usually written as such, with the "T" obviously being an abbreviation for something, and usually has a small value attached. The Collins data values it at $18 new, $13 in depreciated condition. There is also a "T. Haul" listed near the description of the Collins stock pens, with a value of $7 new and $6 depreciated. If anyone has an idea what a "T. haul" might be in this context, I would like to hear it.
Finally had time to do a serious dive into some scanned ICC valuation notes from 1920. See attached pdfs and jpgs. The Collins, MO depot was reported to be the same as the ones at Hartwell, MO, MP 75.5, and Dunnegan, MO, MP 141.3. So the dimensional drawings of the Hartwell depot can be used for basic dimensions, and photographs of the Hartwell and Dunnegan depots can be used to make an educated guess about whatever parts of the Collins depot are not visible in available photographs. Several photographs of the Dunnegan depot are available in a book entitled Polk County Classics which was published by the Polk County Historical Society. Bradley A. Scott
