Frisco Passenger Trains into Joplin, Mo

[slsf580]

Does anyone know how passenger trains were routed into Joplin?

My best guess based on what I have found so far is...

From Springfield, MO
323.3 Oronogo Junction
Red Plant
327.0 Webb City (Carterville)
East Joplin
Cross KCS
332.5 Joplin Frisco Station (back in)
Cross MoPac
Cross SLSF
J&G Junction
Ruth Yard
Iron Gates
Old Rock
341.6 Galena, KS
349.0 Riverton, KS
349.7 Baxter Springs, KS
And then on to Kansas City

Does anyone know when the Frisco ended passenger train service to Joplin? I have seen 1955 quoted and I know the Wichita trains ended in 1960.

Any help is appreciated.
|-|Mike Sypult
Rogers, AR

[Karl]

You didn't say during which time frame.

I have a Northern Div ETT No 9, May 6 1923, which shows 19 daily passenger trains serving Joplin. Can any other Frisco town boast that many passenger trains at this date?

See the attached map for routings

303 Joplin Psgr
304 St Louis Psgr
305 SW Limited
306 St Louis Special
186 Joplin Accomdation
187 Oklahoma Accomodation
188 Joplin and OK Express
181 Oklahoma Local
311 Kansas Mail
312 St Louis Express
316 Springfield Express
317 Joplin Accom
321 KC Psgr
323 KC Special
324 Joplin Special
325 KC Express
326 Local Psgr
372 Joplin Limited
329 Local Psgr

[Karl]

By 1939, the depression and concrete highways had killed most brancline psgr traffic. Two trains remained, the KC-Tulsa Oil Fields Special, and the St Louis-Wichita trains.


ETT No 30 May 1939
117/118 The Oil Fields Special
320/323 The Oil Fields Special, Since the OFS traversed the J&G Junction to the Joplin Depot twice as it entered and then left town, a separate "train" was established so there were not two trains 117 or 118 traveling between those points.

303 The Kansas Mail
310 The St Louis Special

[slsf580]

Karl,

Thanks for the excellent post. The 1915 Joplin District map is very helpful.

I guess I should have been more specific as to time frame. I was thinking along the lines of the last couple of decades of Frisco passenger service into Joplin (1940 to 1960).

Do you know when the Oil Fields Special made its last run into Joplin? I show the last Wichita train to have run October 16, 1960. Would this have been the final SLSF passenger train into Frisco Station?

Your map shows the Frieght House at 10th Street. Was the 5 stall wooden roundhouse in this area as well?

|-|Mike Sypult
MP 333 Central Division