Sirs, I am looking for track diagrams for the following cities around the late 1950s to early 1960s on the Chaffee Subdivision, Southern Division. This is my first post on this sight, and do not know if this is where I am supposed to ask this question. I do not have any access to your earlier publications on the Frisco from the Frisco Modelers Information Group (FMIG) days to consult. Any help will be appreciated. I am currently building a layout based on Frisco equipment, but I had rather build some locations specific to the Frisco rather than more of a freelance layout. My basic room size is a 12' x 30' room in the attic of my home. The primary cities I am looking for information include Chaffee, Sikeston, Kewanee, Conran, Portageville, Hayti, Steele, Blytheville, Osceola, Wilson, and Turrell. I live in Collierville, TN and the Chaffee Subdivision is relatively close at hand to do hands on research. Any information or direction to answers to my post is appreciated. I can be contacted off-line at ldhodge@bellsouth.net. Thanks for your time. Many thanks, Lynn Hodge slsf717
Hi. I am looking for the yard layout in Chaffee, MO. No luck on any information yet. Like you I would like to do a real place. My mother, grandmother, great grandfather and great grandmother lived in Chaffee. I am trying to find old photographs that my grandmother may still have. If I find anything that may be of help I will send it along. If you find any information let me know. Thanks, Blacksmith
Greetings from one River Division buff/modeler to others! I've posted an early 20th century map of the Chaffee railroad facilities. Please see the following link. http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/chaffee-mo-yard-early-20th-century-map.1046/ Somewhere I have some Sanborn maps of the roundhouse and car repair tracks that I will have to find. While I am not sure what era you are modeling, I have posted a drawing of proposed roundhouse and track changes at Chaffee to accommodate diesel servicing that Karl Brand provided to me at the following links. http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/chaffee-mo-roundhouse-turntable.242/#post-1807 http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/chaffee-mo-roundhouse-turntable.242/#post-1808 While I do not have detailed plans, I have some crude sketches that I made from Sanborn and topographic maps of some of the Chaffee Subdivision towns. Feel free to contact me by private message off list and I will see what I can find in my files. Best Regards,
Blacksmith, I have on my site at www.chaffeemissouri.com the 1927 Sanborn maps of Chaffee which include all of the railroad buildings of that time. You can go to the site at www.chaffeemissouri.com and check out all of the neat Frisco stuff in the railroad section or go directly to the maps at www.chaffeemissouri.com/Chaffee1927j.jpg. All of the maps are located in the Chaffee history section. Let me know if I can help with anything else. Timothy
I started building a layout of nearly the same size, 14' x 28', in December of 2007. I built a double deck, point to point, gradual climb verses using a helix. I model Crystal City to Oran along the St. Louis and Chaffee Subdivisions. North staging is St. Louis and south staging is points beyond Oran such as Memphis. Chaffee is my main yard for transfers, interchanges, northbound and southbound crew changes. I base operations off late 1930s and early 1940s timetables, because in later years the traffic along this line dropped off considerably. My equipment used is mostly from late 1940s to late 1950s and my industries are taken from Sanborn maps from 1910 to 1920s and any other source that I come across. The mix of history makes for a little more interest than actual reality of the Frisco in the mid to late fifties. I work two other railroads into the mix. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois (C&EI) shares the yard at Chaffee and the Missouri Illinois (MI) / Missouri Pacific (MP) interchanges or shares the real estate in the towns of Crystal City, Ste. Genevieve, Cape Girardeau and Oran. I have had six operating secessions thus far. Some day I hope to establish a working timetable. You can email me off line at Friscorpb@gmail.com Bob Brady
