Various Forms, Edition Dates - Various Correspondence Letter Documents (Early 1900s)

sharolyn, the frisco s.o.p. was 50ft from center line, at stations or townships it was 100ft from center line of nearest track. at verdigris, this would be from the house trk on the west side of the current siding. these measurements came from the trk profiles the company gives to us engineers. i run this part or the railroad most every day.

 

Bad Order - Form MP 19 - Front and Back

Bad Order tack board card (front and back) - Form MP 19

Courtesy Doug Hughes

 

Check of Train Register - Form CT 93 Local

Form CT 93 LOCAL - Check of Train Register (Courtesy Doug Hughes)

 

Passenger Ticket Envelope - Form 3429

Passenger Ticket Envelope Form 3429

Courtesy Doug Hughes

 

Weigh - Form 251 - 6/1945

WEIGH tack board card - Form 251

Courtesy Doug Hughes

 

To Be Cleaned - Form 252 - 11/1946

TO BE CLEANED tack board card.

Courtesy Doug Hughes

 

CLEANED - Form 254 Standard - 1/1941

CLEANED car tack board card. Form 254 Standard. 1/1941

Courtesy Doug Hughes

 

Accident Report [passenger] - Form 29 Standard - Revised 8/1953

Accident Report [passenger] - Form 29 Standard - revised 8/1953

Courtesy Doug Hughes

 

Car Suitability For Loading Grading - Form 260 Standard - (two sided)

Car Suitability For Loading Grading tack board card- Form 260 Standard - (two sided)

Courtesy Doug Hughes-

 

Stockton Extension Off KCCS (Leaky Roof) Letter- 1//17/1906

Stockton never did get a railroad, Frisco or otherwise.

 

Fascinating stuff. I suspect this is the ghost of the long-dead Laclede and Fort Scott L&FS) Railroad project once again rearing its head.

For those who are unfamiliar with it, the L&FS was an abortive 1870s attempt to build a railroad from Lebanon, MO westward through Buffalo, Bolivar, Stockton, and into eastern Kansas. Grading was reportedly completed as far as Bolivar, but tracks were never laid. At one point the name was changed to St. Louis and Western, but that didn't help either.

Dallas County struggled for seventy years under the burden of the bonds it had incurred for this project, but that's another story, for which I refer the interested reader to the Buffalo Reflex's account: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~veregge/rrpictures/70yrnightmare.html

I seem to recall reading that the MKT's Eldorado Springs branch was built on the route surveyed by the L&FS, and the bones of the project played a part in at least one railroad scheme of the 1880s. See the June 28, 1883 article from this page of newspaper extracts from Mike Good's webpage about Clinton railroads: http://tacnet.missouri.org/history/railroads/nn1883h1.html

I suspect that the folks from Stockton intended to use the L&FS survey and any grading that had been done earlier. However, 1906 was awfully late to be getting into the railroad game, and it seems unlikely that an isolated branch line serving only Stockton would not have accomplished much beyond staggering to an early demise.