River Division ETT Supplement 29a, March 14, 1937

Jonesboro Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

Wilson Branch, Jonesboro Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

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Administrator's note: Complete ETT in pdf form at post #14.

 

Piggott Branch, Leachville Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

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Caruthersville Branch, Leachville Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

Campbell Branch, Leachville Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

Malden Branch, Leachville Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

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Leachville Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

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Current River - Hunter Branch, Hoxie Subdivision - River Division - Employee Timetable 29A

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Hoxie Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

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Chaffee Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

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Chaffee Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

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St. Louis Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

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St. Louis Subdivision - River Division - Employee Time Table 29A

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River Division Employee Time Table (ETT) supplement A to Time Table 29, effective Sunday, March 14, 1937

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I have acquired recently a River Division Employee Time Table (ETT) supplement A to Time Table 29, effective Sunday, March 14, 1937.

After a quick perusal, I noted several items of particular interest.

1) Hoxie Subdivision trains originated and terminated in Cape Girardeau and not Chaffee.
2) The Current River Branch was assigned the River Division.
3) The ETT shows operations after the mass 1934-1935 abandonments.
4) Most branch line passenger traffic was handled by "Motors" or by mixed trains. My father always refers to the Frisco gas-electrics as a Bull Moose because of the air horn they carried. I do not know if this term is peculiar to him, to Frisco folks, or to folks from southeast Missouri.
5) The Hoxie Subdivision passenger train was a Sunday only affair. Otherwise passengers were carried in the daily except Sunday mixed.
6) The Piggott Branch Motors changed numbers when they left or arrived at Poplar Jct. For example, when the northbound No 896 arrived at Poplar Jct., it became southbound No 823 between Poplar Jct. and Poplar Bluff.
7) There was a local passenger train, No 822 and No 821 that operated between Kennett, MO and Memphis, TN.
8) The Wilson Branch was operating its famous southbound only train.

 

If I was you, I would make a couple of copies of this Employee Time Table (ETT) from cover to cover and then seal it up in an airtight bag.

1930s Public Time Tables (PTT) are still generally easy to come by but Employee Time Tables from this time period are very, very rare.

Thanks for sharing, I see tons of new information from this!

Roger

 

friscomike,

I am interested in your comment about the trains being called Bull Moose.

Almost all older folks in my area, Leachville Subdivision, called the train that came through Risco the Moose and I just ran across a Campbell, MO reference where the train was also called the Moose.

Could you elaborate on what type of engines might have had this unique horn and years used?

Thanks!

 

Karl,

Yep, I always heard it referred to as the "moose".

I can still remember stories told by my grandparents about riding the moose all over the bootheel.

 

All the old timers around Arbyrd used to talk about "The Moose".

No Bull.