Cape Girardeau, MO, St. Louis Subdivision, MP 131.3

I bet she's on her way past Brownwood.

It is close in appearance to my little 4-4-0 SLSF 151. I know it is not but I can pretend.

That awesome depot at Cape Girardeau is on my scratch building "bucket list". There are not very many images of it. All I have seen were taken from this same side.

I have never seen any plans for it.

 

Rail-Served Industries Circa 1964 - Cape Girardeau, MO

Thanks to Mark Hall, a fellow model railroader here in Kansas City, who provided the bulk information from the Missouri Pacific (MP) Railroad.

I created a summarized listing of the industries, goods received, goods shipped and serving railroad(s) in Cape Girardeau that were served by rail in 1964.

 

Coca Cola sign on Vandeven's Mercantile - Cape Girardeau, MO

For fans of Cape Girardeau, especially anyone who lived or lives there, or fans of Coca Cola, from the archives of Ken McElreath (kenmc), comes a picture of the Coca Cola sign that was painted on the west wall of Vandeven's Mercantile Company at the corner of Broadway and Pacific.

If anyone wants a high resolution tiff file of it for decal production, let me know via PM.

 

Ah, memory lane.

During my college days I lived just a few blocks north of there.

Thanks for sharing.

 

Yet another Coca Cola sign from the Cape Girardeau area.

This one has been on the north side of a building, currently the Port Cape Girardeau Restaurant, since the late 1800s.

Note the two different prices, 3 cents Plain or 5 cents (with coca).

I also have this one ready for decal work.

The photographs are mine.

 

Thank you very much for these, Keith.

I have some photograph prints of this sign, circa 1992.

I used a razor blade to cut it out, then sanded it down thin and put it on a building.

However, my angle was such that the sign looks very trapezoidal.

Your photograph is a much better job.

Thanks for sharing.

 

Brent,

What is the possibility of getting a clearer, higher resolution scan of that track chart?

 

Very neat.

I think this is the first time I have seen a track chart with Gulf Junction still intact.

Thanks very much for sharing.

Best Regards,

 

Another first.

I think this is the only chart for Chaffee I have seen that shows the full complement of freight house, team tracks and the tracks to the east of the freight house, shown as the scale track in this chart.

I had never realized that there were tracks in the latter area until I saw an old photograph taken from the hill to the east.

Tim,

I think it may have been a photograph in your collection.

Thanks very much for posting!

Best Regards,

 

Good catch, Ken.

I think you are right.

Your recollection jives with an early Chaffee Real Estate Company map I have, and with an aerial photo from Don Wirth. Please see the following links.

http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/chaffee-mo-yard-early-20th-century-map.1046/

http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index....o-yard-early-20th-century-map.1046/#post-5901

I wonder if they just got it wrong on the track chart?

Thanks for explaining the prototype advances of the ladder switches. I had always wondered why they were set up as they were in Chaffee.

Best Regards,

 

Was he the same man who built the Black Forest Village?

Maybe that was Gephardt.

 

Jim,

J. W.'s son, Burton J. Gerhardt built the Black Forest Village.