Rolla - Lebanon Subdivision - List Of Stations And Mile Posts

Rolla - Lebanon Subdivision - Stations and Mile Posts

Rolla - Lebanon Subdivision - Stations and Mile Posts - St. Louis to Newburg, 119.1 Miles - Newburg to Springfield, 120.0 Miles

 

Southeastern Junction to Teed, MO Stations and Mileposts

Southeastern Junction to North Springfield, MO.

M.P.--Station-------------------Built----P. C.
7.1----Southeastern Jct.-------1883----SL&SF RY
7.9----Shrewsbury-------------1883----"
8.7----Old Orchard------------1883----"
9.4----So. Webster-------------1883----"
10.1---Webster Groves--------1883----"
11.0---Glendale-----------------1883----"
11.5---Oakland-----------------1883----"
11.8---Fairlawn-----------------1883----"
12.7---Kirkwood----------------1883----"
13.2---Windsor Springs-------1883----"
14.8---Meramec Highlands---1883----"
16.0---Tree Court--------------1883----"
16.5---Key's Summit-----------1883----"
17.9---Valley Park--------------1883----"
19.7---Ranken------------------1882----"
20.8---Morschel's--------------1882----"
21.9---Tyson--------------------1882----"
23.0---Mincke------------------1882----"
24.9---Crescent----------------1882----"
26.5---Famous-----------------1882----"
27.2---Eureka------------------1882----"
28.4---Sylvester----------------1882----"
29.8---Allenton----------------1882----"
31.6---Dozier-------------------1882----"
32.7---Woods-------------------1882----"
33.3---Bowes-------------------1882----"
34.1---Franklin-----------------1882----"
34.1---Pacific-------------------1882----SL&SF RY

34.1---Pacific-------------------1856----P RR
34.1---Franklin-----------------1856----"
36.0---Mikkelson--------------1856----"
36.4---Universal---------------1856----"
38.8---Catawissa---------------1856----"
40.8---Robertsville------------1856----"
42.0---Meramec Terrace------????----"
43.1---Shewell------------------????----"
44.0---Rook--------------------????----"
46.0---Moselle-----------------????----"
52.3---St. Clair-----------------????----"
57.2---Anaconda---------------????----"
58.8---Kelsey-------------------????----"
62.2---Stanton-----------------1857----"
64.6---Acid---------------------1858----"
68.1---Sullivan-----------------1858----"
74.3---Bourbon-----------------1859----"
77.2---Coffeyton----------------1859----"
79.6---Leasburg----------------1859----"
83.8---Hofflins-----------------1859----"
86.8---Cuba--------------------1859----"
91.4----Fanning----------------1860----"
94.8----Rosati------------------1860----"
95.2----Knobview--------------1860----"
100.5---St. James--------------1860----"
105.7---Dillon------------------1860----"
110.7---Rolla--------------------1860----P RR

110.7---Rolla--------------------1866----SWP RR
112.7---Sills---------------------1866----"
119.2---Newburg---------------1866----"
121.0---Alhambra Grotto------1866----SWP RR

121.5---Bundy Jct.-------------1940----SLSF RY

123.2---Arlington--------------1866---SWP RR
123.2---Arlington--------------1868---SP RR
124.0---Jerome-----------------1868----"
129.0---Franks-----------------1868----"
133.8---Wye--------------------1868----"
134.7---Dixon-------------------1868----"
136.5---Rhode's Spur----------1868----"
138.3---Helm-------------------1868----"
140.1---Hancock---------------1868----"
141.9---Purdon-----------------1868----"
142.0---Jury--------------------1868----"
146.7---Crocker----------------1868----"
150.1---Schlicht----------------1868----"
150.2---Templar Park---------1868----"
152.3---Swedeborg-------------1868----"
155.2---St. John----------------1868----"
159.2---East Richland---------1868----"
159.9---Richland---------------1868----"
163.5---Garnsey----------------1868----"
167.6---Stoutland--------------1868----"
171.4---Delmar-----------------1868----"
174.3---Sleeper-----------------1868----"
175.9---Carroll------------------1868----"
178.7---Russell-----------------1868----"
181.9---Lebanon---------------1868----"
187.5---Brush Creek-----------1868----"
190.5---Huben-----------------1868---"
194.0---Phillipsburg-----------1869----"
198.5---Conway----------------1869----"
203.0---Samson----------------1869----"
207.0---Niangua---------------1869----"
213.5---Marshfield-------------1869----"
220.1---Northview-------------1868----"
224.4---Holman----------------1869----"
228.0---Strafford--------------1869----"
230.5---Nogo-------------------1870----"
235.8---Walley-----------------1870----SP RR

232.6---Teed-------------------1955----SLSF RY

236.7---Eastern Jct.------------1870----SP RR
236.7---Teed--------------------1870----"
237.7---North Springfield-----1870----"
238.0---Broad Street Jct.------1870----"
239.7---Springfield Yard-------1870----"
240.1---Phelps Avenue---------1870----SP RR

Predecessor Companies
1) SL&SF RY - St. Louis & San Francisco RY
2) P RR - Pacific Railroad of Missouri / Southwest Branch
3) SWP RR - Southwest Pacific RR
4) SP RR - South Pacific RR
5) SLSF RY - St. Louis-San Francisco RY

Notes
1) Rolla Subdivision extended from St. Louis to Newburg, MO. Lebanon Subdivision extended from Newburg to Springfield. Subdivisions were consolidated into a single interdivision operation in 196?
2) Connects with St. Louis Subdivision and St. Louis Terminal Division at Southeastern Jct.
3) Interchanges with Missouri Pacific RR at Fairlawn, Valley Park and Pacific, MO.
4) Connects with Salem Branch at Cuba, MO.
5) Interchanges with U.S. Army RR, Ft. Wood Branch at new station Bundy Jct after 1940.
6) Connects with Springfield Subdivision and Clinton Subdivision at North Springfield.
7) Connects with the Ash Grove Subdivision, Willow Springs Subdivision and Chadwick (later Ozark) Branch at South Springfield.
8) Western end of subdivision moved from North Springfield to Springfield Yard (aka West Yard or Kansas Avenue Yard) in 1947.
9) Connects with Willow Springs Subdivision and Springfield Terminal Division at Teed after the New East Belt built in 1955.
10) First (1st) train pre American Civil War from Pacific to Rolla, MO 12/22/1860. Line segment destroyed during, then rebuilt after war.
11) First (1st) train post American Civil War from Pacific to Springfield, MO 5/3/1870.
12) Line relocated at MP 15.0 - 15.5 to south to bypass Meramec Highlands Tunnel. Construction began Spring 1922, completed 7/26/1923.
13) Meramec Highlands Tunnel, 415' long, at MP 15.1 removed from service 1929. Tunnel in place with portals blocked off.
14) Double track Southeastern Jct. to Pacific, MO. Second (2nd) track from Valley Park to Eureka, MO removed 196?.
15) Frisco's first (1st) Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) signal installation was completed between Dillion and Swedeborg, MO during 1943. During 1944, CTC was extended between Swedeborg and Sleeper. Annual Reports indicate work was completed by Union Switch and Signal (US&S).
16) Arlington to Hancock, MO line relocated 1945. Dixon Hill project reduced grade from 2.3% to 1.27% and curves. First train over new alignment 2/5/1945. Final segment of new alignment between Helm and Bond, MO completed 4/30/1946. The original 3 mile old alignment segment was retained and operated as double track.
17) Phelps Avenue station was short lived. The depot served as the Frisco's downtown location for regional local service on the Bolivar Branch. It was the third (3rd) depot in Springfield, the second for the Frisco. After the 1901 consolidation of the Frisco with the KCFS&M, all passenger operations were consolidated at the KCFS&M's depot on Main Street, and the North Springfield and Phelps depots were closed as passenger agencies and raised. The Phelps location lost its status as a station, but remained as a freight house and team track operation.
18) Was to interchange at Rolla, MO with Missouri, Arkansas & Gulf RY (Rolla to Houston, MO, partly graded, never built).
19) Arlington to St. Roberts, MO graded 1867, never built.
20) Was to interchange at Lebanon, MO with Laclede & Ft. Scott RR (Lebanon to Buffalo, MO, graded, never built).
21) Depots are still standing at Webster Groves, Meramec Highlands and St. James, MO.

Amended 12/10/2023 to improve accuracy, add information, mile posts and consolidate information. MKD

 

Wow
Cool to see that there was a line graded from Arlington to St. Robert by never built (note 11)...I wonder how hard that would be to find today...
Is that the same Ft. Wood line??...It does run through St Robert...
midmo

 

First Frisco CTC

It was installed in 1944 between Dillon and Swedeborg to allow removal of four passing sidings and to speed up the helper operations on Dixon Hill. A full article reprinted from Railway Age, with permission, appeared in FMIG LINES 104, which will be posted tomorrow sometime. I'll try to attach two drawings I redid from the Railway Age feature. It shows all the signals and passing sidings plus the two wyes from back then. Doug

 

Rolla&Lebanon Subdivisions Industry Schematics

I'd like copies, preferable from the late 1960's.

Anyone have them?

Doug

 

Could you tell me what Frisco trains ran through Leslie, MO? Leslie is a little town so maybe Beaufort or Gerald might be a better choice to give you a idea of the area I am asking about. I remember seeing a Frisco train run through there when I was a kid in the late 70 and 80's. I am new to this and not really sure if you can help. I would like to model that area so any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Gary

 

Leslie isn't on the Frisco (now BNSF) line, It's well to the North. It might have been on the Rock Island or Missouri Pacific. If a Frisco train went through there it must have been a re-routing because of a flood, derailment or such. The closest town on the Frisco to Leslie would probably have been Sullivan.

Tom

 

I had always assumed that the Gasconade River bridge collapse, November 1, 1855, killing 43, as referenced in Craig Miner's book on the 35th Parallel Project, was on the Southwest Branch of the Pacific RR. I never really put dates together but when looking at the construction timeline below, the bridge over the Gasconade would not have been built on what became the SLSF until 1868. It would only make sense then that the Gasconade bridge disaster was on the Pacific RR or Missouri Pacific. Does anyone have any more information on this? Thanks, Jeff Cooney, Lindsay, TX

 

Yes, the Gasconade Bridge disaster was on what later became the Missouri Pacific. Here are a couple of online versions of contemporary news articles, complete with thoroughly purple period prose. The first specifically describes the ill-fated excursion train as travelling from St. Louis to Jefferson City.

http://www3.gendisasters.com/missouri/7090/gasconade-mo-train-wreck-nov-1855

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E0D8113CE13BBC4051DFB767838E649FDE

Miner's book (which I don't have at hand at the moment) probably provides the most complete description of the business relationship between the Pacific RR (later MP) and the Southwest Branch (later SLSF).

 

Thanks Bradley. Very interesting period articles. Also thanks for the TT's you sent. I am still going over them. They are a wealth of information. Jeff

 

Garnsey mile post 163.6 is not in Fort Wood Branch constructed ~ 1941.

Garnsey MP 163.6, station # 164
152.3 Swedeborg ~ 1869. South Pacific constructed the railway from Arlington 1868 to Springfield 1870 [prior the area was called Woodend when no railroad]. Swedish migrants purchased the site from the new railroad; hence the name.
159.3 East Richland
159.9 Richland
163.6 Garnsey 1852 USA Land Grant RR property~1869 construction site South Pacific of Missouri Railroad (1868 to 1870) & 1870+ had flag stops, active spurs, telegraph~1902 to ~1950. (Garnsey named for ? No MO records for Garnsey persons there 1869.
( Garnsey was a very rare name back then; less than 90 Garnsey families in the USA in 1869**.
No Garnsey names in Missouri in 1869. ~ 88 Garnsey families lived in New York (&~2 lived in IL) at that time.
167.6 Stoutland [1st called the Switch, next called Stoutville and soon officially named as Stoutland].
174.3 Sleeper
175.9 Carroll [Orchard Spur was the initial name ]
181.9 Lebanon already existed prior to the railroad. That was ~ a mile west of
where the station was built. So the town grew up around the depot.

** Most names from Crocker to Sleeper were for railroad's main investors in New York.
Mr's Crocker, Rich, likely Garnsey , Stout, Sleeper, were major RR investors and/or RR Directors in the South Pacific RR of Missouri (1868 - 1870) or the new Atlantic & Pacific Missouri Branch RR 1871-1876 (which was separate bonds, Inc., Directors and management) its major investor was the 1866 A & P in southwestern states. Atlantic & Pacific Missouri Branch RR defaulted i 1876, 1876 newly Inc.'d St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company of Missouri took over the defaulted Atlantic & Pacific Missouri Branch route .
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Bundy Jct was not constructed in 1868.

It does not show on the Aug. 7, 1932 Timetable No. 24.1

Bundy Jct likely built ~ 1941 when SLSF helped to constructed the Fort Wood Branch.

95% of the used Frisco rails had been manufactured in England.
The truss bridge over the Big Piney River on the Fort Wood Branch was used prior by the SLSF at another location, moved and reassembled there during the project.

Time Table No. 24.1. August 7, 1932.
Newburg, Arlington, Jerome, Franks, Dixon, Helm, Hancock, Jury, Crocker, Swedeborg, St. John, East Richland, Richland, Garnsey, Stoutland

 

Garnsey mile post 163.6 is not in Fort Wood Branch (1941+).

GARNSEY MP 163.6, station # 164
152.3 Swedeborg [Woodend pre-railroad ]. Swedish immigrates purchased site from the new railroad.
159.3 East Richland
159.9 Richland
163.6 Garnsey 1852 USA Land Grant RR property~1869 construction site South Pacific of Missouri Railroad ** (1868 to 1870) & 1870+ flag stops. >active spurs, telegraph~1902 to ~1950. Garnsey named for? No MO gov't & cemetery records for Garnsey persons in 1869.
Garnsey was a very rare name back then. Less than 90 Garnsey families in the USA in 1869.
Most Garnsey s were in Europe. No Garnsey names in Missouri in 1869. ~ 88 Garnsey families lived in New York (&~2 in IL) at that time.
163.8 Garnsey
167.6 Stoutland [Stoutville ~ 1870] [the Switch in 1869]
174.3 Sleeper
175.9 Carroll [Orchard Spur]
181.9 Lebanon

** Most new names from Crocker to Sleeper were selected for railroad investors or Directors in New York & Boston. Mr's Crocker, Rich, likely Garnsey, Stout, Sleeper, were major RR investors and/or RR Directors in the South Pacific RR of Missouri (1868 - 1870) or the Atlantic & Pacific Missouri Branch RR 1871.