Delta, Mo

[matt999]

Hi guys,

Does anyone have a track chart/simple track plan of the layout of Delta, Mo where the Frisco interchanged with the Cotton Belt & Mopac?

thanks for your help

MATT

[Karl]

I am afraid that I don't have any track charts for the Hoxie Sub, but perhaps this 1963 USGS 7.5 minute topo sheet will be of use. The Frisco had but a simple siding with a capacity of 34 car-lengths, and it had several interchange tracks with the MP and SSW. Although Delta was almost due west of Chaffee and about 3.5 miles away as the crow flies, by rail it was it was nearly 11.4 miles away.

Note the pool-table top flatness of the topography. The elevation didn't vary by more than 10 feet between Nash and Delta. The topographic relief between the embayment floor and Hickory Ridge is a paltry 200 feet.

[yardmaster]

Matt-
Here is the old "Cotton Belt"-MoPac diamond at Delta, MO on Christmas Day, 1994. The vantage point looks to the north-northwest up the Missouri Pacific Line; the gate protected against the MoPac.

The old SL-SF Hoxie Sub would have crossed the MoPac line approximately 20-25 yards north of the SSW/MP diamond.

It's been a few years since I went this route to see my grandmother, but at last check they had pulled up the diamond but I can't recall if the gate was still there.

OT, I hear the old MoPac line between Gordonville and Delta has been sold for scrap and will be pulled up quite soon.