Cassville and Exeter RR

[frisco1522]

Yes, it's a 5x7negative.

[meteor910]

Interesting place for the bell mounting - right up next to the cab along with the generator and whistle. I guess the crew liked noise!

Ken

[Brian waller]

Thanks Don, that a nice picture of C&E 345. The paint job look like the way The ES&NA RR painted their Locomotives. Nice picture Don.

If anyone want to know the History of The Cassville & Exeter Railroad, I do know the whole history of this Railroad.

Here are some pictures of the Frisco Depot in Exeter, Mo. If you look at these pictures you will see a spur line behind the depot. The spur rail line is leading to Cassville, Mo. Enjoy.

Thanks,
Brian Waller

[Brian waller]

Hello,

Does anyone have a picture of The C&E RR Steam Locomotive #20, known as "Mary Ann"??

Brian Waller

[nvrr49]

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1007/ce2001.jpg

Anybody know anything about this engine...other than what it says on Don's site. Looks like a reasonable scratch building project.

Kent in KC

[Karl]

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1007/ce2001.jpg

Anybody know anything about this engine...other than what it says on Don's site. Looks like a reasonable scratch building project.

Kent in KC

See post #14 in this thread

http://www.frisco.org/vb/showthread....ghlight=dodson
Don's photo of this engine was taken while it was on the KC Public Service RR, which operated on the old Country Club Street Car Line. The KCPSRR stored its equipment about 87th and Woodland. The locomotive began its career on the Joplin-Pittsburg RR as that road's #2001

[renapper]

Here are some photos I thought you might enjoy.

[Ozarktraveler]

Thanks!

[Karl]

Here are some photos I thought you might enjoy.

She's been rode hard and put away wet.

[gbmott]

Thanks Richard, I had never seen those photos of 345 before. That said, I have to confess that I really prefer Mac Poor's shot that Don posted some time ago -- looked like she was in her gravy days then. I actually watched for a little while as the scrappers were at work tearing up the C&E. My father and I were driving to St. Louis and stopped -- it was a gray, rainy day. The former J-P Ingersoll gas-electric was there and I got some shots of it (on 118 size film -- anyone remember that??). The 345 by then was, unfortunately, long gone. What a neat little engine!

Gordon

[murphy millican]

What years did #345 serve on the C&E RR??? This line is very interesting and begs to modelled(It would be easier than most considering its length).

[Karl]

What years did #345 serve on the C&E RR??? This line is very interesting and begs to modelled(It would be easier than most considering its length).

The Frisco sold the 345 to the C&E during June 1935.

[murphy millican]

Thank you for the information Karl. #345 is a nice looking little engine. I had thought about making this my layout at one time even though it is one of the smallest railroads to exist the layout(if done to actual scale) would be over 300Ft long!!! Right now I'm thinking about a made up Frisco based layout featuring key structures from Fort Smith/Van Buren area(incase I get to build a more accurate one later one). One of these days I'll have to travel up there and follow the abandon R-O-W and look for still existent remants of the old Cassville & Exeter Railroad.

[Bill Wehmeier]

I am doing a steam short line and I am calling it the Cassville and Exeter( I just liked the name), it really has no bearing on the real C&E RR. Does anyone know anything about the fruit shipments from this RR? Would like to model a fruit packing/shipping idustry
Thanks
Bill Wehmeier

[SAFN SAAP]

I am doing a steam short line and I am calling it the Cassville and Exeter( I just liked the name), it really has no bearing on the real C&E RR. Does anyone know anything about the fruit shipments from this RR? Would like to model a fruit packing/shipping idustry
Thanks
Bill Wehmeier

What scale Bill? I'm working on the proper size doors for fruit cars right now. Maybe a Frisco 34' Ventilated Fruit Car is in your future.

[Bill Wehmeier]

HO. Late 30's. The Fruit Belt logo shows a strawberry, did they mostly do strawberries or was there other produce shipped? Did they use ice reefers for shipping? And where can I get a Ventilated Fruit car?
Thanks
Bill

[Oldguy]

Here is some other information on the C&E - http://www.barrycomuseum.org/pages/CandE.html

[SAFN SAAP]

Excellent addition. Notice the Frisco Ventilated Boxcar in the picture where 345 is pulling a cut. She follows the tank car right behind the tender.

[SteveM]

Bill, I don't have any direct knowledge about Cassville production, but generally the strawberries were grown on hillsides and rougher land. The better, flatter land might be in orchards. At least that was the pattern in Benton County, AR during the period that the C&E operated. I remember some strawberry operations in the 50's. A few orchards, mostly apples, lasted past then and there are some still going strong in Washington County.

[Oldguy]

Strawberries? Hmm, back in the mid-70's I went through an operation outside of Neosho (I think; maybe Goodman) that made strawberry baskets out of cottonwood veneer. He had an old "sawmill" looking building that would shave the cottonwood trunks into the veneer and that stuff was taken to a building (looked like an old WWI or II single story barracks) where the baskets were stapled together. It now makes sense as to why it was located where it was.

[yardmaster]

Bill and others,

Here's a thread and information compiled from the old Frisco Employee Magazines on strawberry shipments on the Frisco.

http://www.frisco.org/vb/showthread....t=strawberries

Best Regards,