This photo is taken from the old 27th St bridge, looking south (just southwest of the old roundhouse, now an office park). The train is just west of 28th St. and Southwest Blvd and thus the photo is in Missouri not Kansas.
I love the fact that you can barely make out the main mill portion and loading/unloading shed for the old Rodney Milling Company on the far right of this photo. I think the line with interlocking signals to the left is the KCT line to KC Union Station? If my reading of old Sanborn maps and other photos is accurate, R.L. Faubion Tank company (with the giant, green TANKS lettering) would have been just behind Rodney Milling, and the old 29th Street Interlocking tower would have been just beyond the I-35 overpass, with the Fairgrounds Branch and also the line into MKT's Glen Park Yard to the left. When we drove through here late last month, the remnants of the Rodney Milling Co./Imperial Brewery building looked pretty pitiful - even in the dark - and doesn't appear to be long for this world. Now that I've all but finished my HO-Scale "Olathe" rendition, I'm already penciling sketches for this area to be my next vignette/layout design element. More for another time. Best Regards,
One additional note: the large "Paper Supply Co." building in the back is the same building that, in earlier years, is listed as the Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company. Schutte Lumber Co. would be further behind (west) of here. Rich Steenwyk's website - http://kcspur.blogspot.com has some nice information and contemporary pictures of both the Paper Supply/Thompson-Hayward building, and other industries that lined the old Fairgounds Branch. Finally, in the "Shameless Plug" division, there is a Social Group set up here for the KC Terminal area, with various threads and links to KC-related Frisco information. Not much activity to date, but drop by and request to join if you are interested. Best Regards,
