Remaining, Relocated Or Surviving Depot and Station Locations

I am just curious, are there any Frisc0 depots or stations left standing and in use today.

I know of Union Station in St. Louis, but as for the rest of them, I have no idea.

 

Union Depot in Tulsa is still standing and is now the home of the Jazz Hall of Fame.

Like St. Louis, however, there are important parts gone (concourse, stairs down to tracks, platforms, etc.), but thankfully the main part of the depot has been saved.

Kansas City Union Station is also still standing.

Maybe some of the KC guys can fill us in as to what parts may be gone, if any.

Terry Jankowski

 

Neodesha, KS is still standing and is used by Watco for their operations.

It is a metal shed in the yard that served as depot in final years.

 

Bristow, OK, now city offices.

In the 1980s my father, mother and I drove the whole Frisco System. At that time there were only about 12 depots still standing and none of them were used by the railroad.

We can thank Big Nothing for that!

 

Is the Webster Groves, MO depot still there?

They used to have a model railroad club layout there.

Tom

 

Richard and All:

Augusta, KS is still standing.

In some states, I believe including here in Kansas, railroads demolished or sold depots to get them off of tax roles.

That to me is just smart economics!

 

Lenexa, KS is still standing.

Abet it has been moved to a park complex.

 

The Carthage, MO depot still exists.

It has been moved a little over a mile to private property.

It shares space with a former MP caboose that has been painted in Frisco colors.

 

Here are the first couple Frisco depots I can think of that still exist.

Fort Smith, AR - museum
Van Buren, AR - museum/train station for A&M RR
Fayyettville, AR - Mexican restaurant
Mammoth Springs, AR - museum with Frisco caboose on display
Phocohantas, A R - church
Bentonville, AR - museum/Chamber of Commerce. Has a CRIP caboose painted in SL-SF paint.

This is the Arkansas List.

Ship it on the Frisco!

Murphy Jenkins

 

I had no idea the depot in Neodesha, KS was the old depot.

I used to work out of that building. I knew it belonged to Frisco because I found a lot of old Frisco documents in some of the lockers there years ago. But I figured it was just the old yard office. I have seen pictures of the original Neodesha depot from back in the steam days.

My new layout is planned to fill a 3 car garage and be double decked and so I am planning on covering a lot of real estate but in HO scale. Trying to plan an area to cover.

 

The one I used the most, Oklahoma City, OK.

 

Also surviving on the former Bentonville Branch is the depot at Southwest City, Missouri.

It is located in a field about one-half mile from the original location. As of July 2009, it was in an advanced state of decay. The depot was painted as the Liberty City depot in the 1939 film Jesse James.

The depot at Okmulgee , OK is used by BNSF field forces.

 

Riverton, KS depot was moved.

It is behind a house in Baxter Springs.

The Waco, MO depot is behind a house about a block east of it's original location.

John Chambers

 

The old station east of Aberdeen, MS (Aberdeen Jct.) is still standing beside the old Frisco track on the east bank of the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway.

The line was moved for construction of the waterway near the end of the Frisco era.

 

Clayton, OK, Poteau, OK, Ada, OK, Elgin, OK, Frederick, OK, Antlers, OK, Hugo, OK, Paris, TX (Joint facility), Idebell, OK, Ashdown, AR, St. James, MO, West Plaines, MO, Mammoth Spring, AR, Crocker, MO.

 

Steelville, MO was still there when I passed through a few weeks ago and snapped this picture with my phone.

It seems to be occupied by some sort of civic group.