Kirkwood, MO, Rolla Subdivision, MP 12.7

Thanks!

Glad I did not spend the money.

 

It is interesting to see how close together these stops are to each other.

To add one more, I thought that I saw a stop named Rose Hill, but cannot locate the source right now.

If it was also on this Frisco line, would it have been at Rose Hill and Filmore?

 

The Rose Hill and Fillmore intersection seems logical for a suburban train stop on the Frisco through Kirkwood, except the South Kirkwood and Fairlawn stations would make it redundant. These two were quite close along the tracks in either direction.

If the MoP Rose Hill stop was 0.5 west of the Kirkwood depot, that would place it near the Geyer Road crossing. There is room for something like a station or platform along the tracks on either side of Geyer Road.

Some more historical society or library-diving is in order.

 

If you can make it a Wednesday afternoon, I can join you.

I volunteer at the Kirkwood depot on Wednesday mornings.

Mike P

 

Coming in late here.

According to the blueprints in the Missouri State digital collections, the first floor Kirkwood station was "reduced in size and move across track". This is handwritten in red ink.

Also, the plans for the second story are crossed out with an X in red ink, again handwritten.

I interpret this to mean that the top floor was removed entirely, and the first floor was reduced in size and moved.

So the photograph here might indeed be part of the original Kirkwood depot, the remaining reduced size first floor.

https://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/digital/collection/Depots/id/823

Kirkwood-blueprint by bhugh posted Jun 30, 2019 at 10:32 PM

Kirkwood-blueprint-2 by bhugh posted Jun 30, 2019 at 10:32 PM

 

This is very nice to see.

Not a photograph, but easy enough for a mental construction of the building. Remember, this two-story depot burned around 1930 and the building from Anaconda, MO was brought to Kirkwood to replace it.

The Anaconda building was on the north side of the track until 1949, then it moved to the south side.

 

I do remember a Kirkwood depot for Frisco, Dad drove there one time, just a small building and nothing like MoPac Kirkwood depot.

It is still there, bought by the city and used by a model railroad club, I remember Dad taking me there to see the trains, they had one section in the depot, now they are much larger, as they occupy the whole depot. Frisco Webster Groves station was much nicer and larger.

I have never seen the Meramec Highlands depot that is now a private residence. Wanting to find out more about it led me back here after being absent for a few years.

I did hear later that old Kirkwood depot was torn down after Frisco stopped running passenger trains. Mom used to ride the commuter train to work downtown at the General Office.

There was a Lindenwood depot close to her house. I have seen a picture of it, a stone building. The commuter trains stopped running sometime in the 1930s.

Missouri Pacific kept theirs running until 1960s.

 

I found out to put up an avatar too, this bridge is still used by BNSF on the old Frisco St. Louis Subdivision, River Division going south.

It is on National Register and has to be maintained and repainted. Always enjoy seeing it, not far from my house.

I live close enough to Lindenwood Yard that Dad always walked to work, only a few blocks.

 

Windsor Springs depot in Kirkwood, MO.

 

Kirkwood, MO.

Frisco 2-story depot until 1930.

 

Kirkwood, MO depot.

 

Tell the dimwits not to foul the track!