Leachville Subdivision - Brooks Junction to Leachville, AR

Leachville Subdivision - Brooks Junction, MO to Leachville, AR

M.P.----Station-------Built---Aband---P. C.--------County
159.9---Brooks Jct.---1898---1978-----M&MRR---Scott
163.3---Vanduser-----1898---1978-----M&MRR---Scott
165.3---Crowder------1898---1974-----M&MRR---Scott
167.0---Carlston------1898---1974-----M&MRR---Scott
167.6---Harbinston---1898---1974-----M&MRR---Scott
168.1---Tanner--------1898---1974-----M&MRR---Scott
170.1---Salcedo--------1898---1968-----M&MRR---Scott
170.6---Vanor---------1898---1968-----M&MRR---Scott
173.4---Morehouse---1898---1968-----M&MRR---Scott

173.4---Morehouse----1900---1968-----SLM&S---Scott
176.9---Tram Switch---1900---1968----SLM&S---Scott
177.2---Deshler---------1900---1968----SLM&S---Scott
179.7---Canalou--------1900---1968----SLM&S---Scott
182.7---Charter Oak---1900---1968----SLM&S---Stoddard
183.4---Hoosier--------1900---1968----SLM&S---Stoddard
184.3---Claude---------1900---1968----SLM&S---Stoddard
187.1---LaValle---------1900---1968----SLM&S---Stoddard
189.6---Maulsby-------1900---1968----SLM&S---Stoddard
192.5---Parma---------1900---1973----SLM&S---New Madrid
196.6---Risco-----------1900---1973----SLM&S---New Madrid
197.2---Forest----------1900---1973----SLM&S---New Madrid
199.6---Tallipoosa-----1900---1973----SLM&S---New Madrid

199.6---Tallipoosa------1901---1973----CBRR----New Madrid
202.3---Hartzell--------1901---1973----CBRR----New Madrid
206.5---Gideon---------1901---1973----CBRR----Dunklin
208.5---Clarkton-------1901---1973----CBRR----Dunklin
211.?---Baird------------1902---1973----CBRR----Dunklin
213.0---Gibson----------1902---1973----CBRR----Dunklin

213.0---Gibson----------1891---1973----SLK&S----Dunklin
215.6---Holcomb--------1891---1982----SLK&S----Dunklin
216.8---Pine City--------1891---1982----SLK&S----Dunklin
219.5---Frisbee----------1891---1982----SLK&S----Dunklin
220.8---White Oak------1891---1982----SLK&S----Dunklin
223.0---Ipley-------------1891---1982----SLK&S----Dunklin
224.9---Owens-----------1891---1982----SLK&S----Dunklin
227.5---Kennett----------1891---1982----SLK&S----Dunklin

0.0------Kennett---------1897---1999----K&ORR----Dunklin
1.5-------Udora-----------1897---1999----K&ORR----Dunklin
4.5-------Dillman---------1897---1999----K&ORR----Dunklin
5.5-------Octa-------------1897---1982----K&ORR----Dunklin
9.1-------Senath-----------1897---1982----K&ORR----Dunklin
13.7------Bucoda----------1897---1972----K&ORR----Dunklin
16.7------Arbyrd----------1897---1972----K&ORR----Dunklin
19.3------Paulding--------1897---1972----K&ORR----Dunklin
21.5------Boynton, AR----1897---1972----K&ORR----Mississippi
24.7------Leachville-------1898---1972----K&ORR----Mississippi

Predecessor Companies
1) M&MRR - Morley and Morehouse Railroad
2) SLM&S - St. Louis, Morehouse and Southern Railroad
3) CBRR - Clarkton Branch Railroad, St. Louis, Kennett and Southern Railroad
4) SLK&S - St. Louis, Kennett and Southern Railroad (1)
5) K&ORR - Kennett and Osceola Railroad

Notes
1) Connects with Chaffee Subdivision, River Division at Brooks Junction.
2) Connects with Marquette-Brooks Junction Branch, St. Louis Subdivision, River Division at Brooks Junction.
3) Connects with Vanduser-Aquilla Branch at Vanduser.
4) Interchanges with Missouri Pacific (MP) Railroad at Morehouse.
5) Interchanges with St. Louis Southwestern (SSW) Railroad or Cotton Belt at Parma.
6) Connects with Tallipoosa-Pascola Branch at Tallipoosa.
7) Interchanges with St. Louis Southwestern (SSW) Railroad or Cotton Belt at Gideon.
8) Connects with Malden Branch at Clarkton.
9) Connects with Gibson-Aquilla Branch at Gibson.
10) Connects with Kennett-Hayti Branch at Kennett.
11) Connects with Kennett-Popular Bluff Branch at Kennett.
12) Interchanges with St. Louis Southwestern (SSW) Railroad or Cotton Belt at Arbyrd.
13) Connects with Leachville-Jonesboro Branch at Leachville.
14) Connects with Leachville-Blytheville Branch at Leachville.
15) Interchanges with St. Louis Southwestern (SSW) Railroad or Cotton Belt at Leachville.
16) Water tanks located at Brooks Jct., Morehouse, Parma, Gibson, Kennett.
17) Wyes located at Brooks Jct., Vanduser, Morehouse, Parma, Tallipoosa, Clarkton, Gibson, Kennett.
18) Coal docks located at Kennett.
19) Interlocking plant located at Kennett.
20) Rails removed Kennett to Dillman 3/2000.

 

Dear Rogerrt477,

Thanks for this great post.

My mother was born in Canalou, Missouri and lived there until she was eight years old.

Would you happen to know what branch line, subdivision or division of the Frisco this was on?

 

Leachville Subdivision of the River Divison

 

Dear Karl,

Many thanks! I have been looking for this information for some time.

As I wrote above, my mother and all her five siblings were born at home, in Canalou, where there was no doctor and you had to take the train to reach the nearest pharmacy. My older aunts and uncles knew the station agent and his family, and also the man who threw the mail sacks off the railway post office (RPO) as the train passed.

My family moved away from there, looking for a better future circa 1952, after all the old-growth forests had been clear cut for lumber, and the land converted to farming. I have a picture of some of my family standing outside the Frisco depot while waiting for a train that would carry away a family member whom we would not see again for fifty years.

Everyone is smiling, but it was a dark time for the family because World War 2 changed everything. It was no longer possible to live an isolated rural lifestyle as they always had.

The young ones, including eventually my mother, simply did not feel the same about life as had their parents. They had different expectations. And by this time, circa 1948, the railroad in Canalou was already ailing.

These days, Canalou is mostly just a wide-spot on a highway; it barely exists.

 

Paul,

Attached is the page that covers the Leachville Subdivision taken from Employee Timetable 39A, June 15, 1956.

Service was provided by a tri-weekly freight that carried passengers in the caboose.