Blytheville to Jonesboro, AR

[mike]

Leachville Branch, Chaffee Sub

[chris]

Folks and especially River Division experts:

Public Timetable from April 1937 shows the aforementioned trains with daily
motor car service between Blytheville, AR and Jonesboro AR.

<table border=1><tr><td>#899</TD><TD></TD><TD>#898 </TD></TR><TR><TD>Lv</TD><TD>Station</TD><TD>Ar </TD></TR><TR><TD>1:15 PM</TD><TD>Blytheville</TD><TD>11:59 AM </TD></TR><TR><TD>2:23 PM</TD><TD>Ar Leachville</TD><TD>Lv 10:55 AM </TD></TR><TR><TD>2:23 PM</TD><TD>Lv Leachville</TD><TD>Ar 8:34 AM </TD></TR><TR><TD>3:35 PM</TD><TD>Ar Jonesboro</TD><TD>Lv 7:30 AM</td></tr></table>

Questions:

&#40;1&#41; Does anyone know what motor cars were assigned to this line? And, were they still in operation in the early 1940s &#40;I do not have my 1941 River Div. ETT handy&#41;?

&#40;2&#41; I&#39;m a bit puzzled as to the almost 2 1/2 hour layover at Leachville for #898? I do show that #812 daily between Kennett and Leachville arrived at the latter at 10:50am, perhaps allowing for a transfer to #898 and onto
Blytheville. That&#39;s the only plausible explanation that I can find.

&#40;3&#41; A bit of a digression, but if anyone has steam-era photos of the Blytheville AR passenger depot, I&#39;d be interested in seeing - please contact me off-list or share you photo on the Frisco Resource Center Frisco Resource Center&#41; (&#40;www.frisco.org/discus)

Regards,

Chris Abernathy
Columbia, MO
&#40;Modeling the Frisco&#39;s River Division in HO-Scale c. 1943&#41;

[roger]

Chris, sorry for the delay, my computor blew up and I&#39;m slowly coming back up to steam. Luckly I had 99.8% of my Frisco stuff backed up on floppies. Anyway, my 5/40 timetable show the doodlebugs still in service, however the layover at Leachville for #898 was adjusted to 7:49-10:15AM. I think I have a 1943 TT somewhere unless I donated it to the Mammoth Springs depot, I&#39;ll have to look. As for what was assigned I don&#39;t know other than a photo of #2100 in Frisco Southwest Pg.96 taken 10/29/29 @Jonesboro, AR. I&#39;m assuming that it ran on the old JLC&amp;E since Jonesboro was served by many standard passenger trains. Or it was possibly running on the Jonesboro-Bono-Algoa run at the time which my 1926 TT shows as #259 SB and #258 NB without the motor car daily note. That&#39;s all I can add. Roger

[chris]

Roger, thanks for the info. If you still have the 1943 TT,I&#39;d relish seeing it in full on the Resource Center &#40;if scanning isn&#39;t doable, please contact me and I&#39;ll be glad to make arrangements for a copy&#41;--Chris.

[roger]

Chris, after checking I don&#39;t have the 1943 TT. I gave a whole box of Frisco stuff to the Mammoth Springs depot 10 years ago, I think my reasoning was I only need 1 of each decade so donate the rest. I seem to remember a 1945 TT went with the 1943 one. The only TT&#39;s I have are 1926/37/40/64 public TT &#43; the 1970&#39;s division employee TT&#39;s. Sorry! Roger