Turner, MO C212 - 1951 Turner, MO 1951. Photo from previous "All Aboard" magazines. Currently in collection of the Frisco Building LLC (posted with permission).
Turner, MO - diagram 1916 Turner, MO - Floor plan from FMIG NL 32 January 1982 courtesy of Ron Williams.
Whether you call it Turner - Turners, Mo - Turners Station See thread below http://www.frisco.org/vb/showthread.php?t=2332&highlight=turner Here are some photos from 2009 - Station site, RR sign, MP marker, The store and 1912 (Water Tower - Photographer unknown)
Thanks for the photos of the Turner Station area. Sorry that I have not checked in for a while. I have not been there for a few years, so it is good to see how things have changed or stayed the same. The old general store and post office look pretty much the same way they did when I was a kid, 50 years ago, other than there were gas pumps instead of a signal out front.
From Richard Crabtree on the Frisco Rails Across Missouri Facebook group: Here we are at the Frisco Depot for Turners, Missouri aka Turners Station. In 1882 Edy Turner would give the Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis (aka Frisco) a right of way though the family's land and land to build a station. That station and water tower was complete in 1883. They would later build a section house house as well to house railroad workers. This would become the a busy mainline from Kansas City to Memphis and would eventually connect Birmingham, Al & Pensacola, FLA. Turners Station Mercantile in Turner, Mo would be built across the road in 1889. This would be a great stop for the Frisco Railroaders to wet their whistle and passengers as well. Many of Springfield's high school and college students would come through here on field and class trips in the early part of the last century. Unfortunately nothing remains of the station and water tower ~ but we do have photos! Photo 1) The original 1883 Frisco Depot at Turner, Mo, repainted in a newer scheme. Photo 2) The Frisco Depot blue Print ~ courtesy of MSU Digital Collection Photo 3) We are at Turner, Mo at the Frisco Depot. We can see Frisco Steam Engine No. 511 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler (built in 1893 for the Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis) ~ Luann Turner Musgrave, Turner Family Archives Photo 4) Here we see a Frisco Locomotive rounding the bend after leaving Turners, Mo running near Pierson Creek. Courtesy SGC Library.
I can see some confusion here. In the Southern Division ETT 34 February 4 1945, MP 211.7 is listed as Turner. Yet the name of the town according to the U.S. Post Office is Turners, Mo 65765. Karl, do you mean Turners Arkansas which is MP 249.1 Station TW248?
It is interesting to note that Turners Arkansas shows on only one of the lists that is posted in the Frisco Lists of Stations sub-forum; it shows only in the Frisco List of Stations #18 May 1, 1926 and not in the Frisco List of Stations #17 July 15, 1920, or the list from the Public Timetable, November 1929. Nor does it show up in River Division ETT #12 July 19, 1925.
