Cape Girardeau, MO - Continental Oil Company - Bulk Oil Dealer View of oil storage tanks. View looking northwest. 2nd attempt.
Cape Girardeau, MO - Continental Oil Company - Bulk Oil Dealer View of warehouse and loading dock, looking east.
Cape Girardeau, MO - Continental Oil Company - Bulk Oil Dealer Warehouse and loading dock wider angle view. Note the rooftop peak Continental Oil Company sign and the warehouse side Sonoco sign. View looking east.
Cape Girardeau, MO - Continental Oil Company - Bulk Oil Dealer Warehouse view. View looking from southeast.
Continental Oil Co., Cape Girardeau Continental Oil Co., Cape Girardeau. Wide-angle view looking northwest showing both warehouse buildings and tanks in the background. This complex shows up on Sanborn Fire maps through the 1960s, at least according to the ones at the University of Missouri, Ellis Library Special Collections, with a single spur serving. It looks like the Missouri Pacific (MP) may have had access as well. See #5 on the Cape Girardeau area track chart that I have posted. I believe the track would have been in the foreground. Photograph taken 12/25/1994 by yours truly.
Chris and all, If I remember correctly, only the MoPac served the Continental Oil Co. The Frisco's wye passed right by it, but there was no set out spur. Ken McElreath
