Yard Office and Tower, Springfield Yard, MP 239.7 - Lebanon and Springfield Subdivisions - MP 200.6. - Ash Grove and Willow Springs Subdivisions Springfield Yard Office and Tower. 1625 North Lexington Avenue, Springfield, MO 65802. November 25, 2000. Photograph taken from under the overpass at 1665 Kansas Expressway / Missouri Highway 13. View looking west. Edit 1/13/2024: Added location address, mile post, subdivisions and additional images narrative. MKD
Yard Office, North Yard, Springfield, MO, MP 237.7 - Lebanon Subdivision Yard Office, North Yard. 541 East Commercial Street, Springfield, MO 64803. November 25, 2000. Photograph taken from parking lot 521 East Commercial Street. View looking northeast. Edit 1/13/2024: Added location address, mile post, subdivisions and additional images narrative. MKD
Yard Office, Monett Yard, Monet, MO, MP 282.0 - Springfield, Cherokee and Ft. Smith Subdivisions Yard Office, Monett Yard. 401 Front Street, Monett, MO 65708. November 22, 2000. Photograph taken from Kelly Creek bridge overpass, corner of 3rd Street and Front Street. View looking south southeast. Compare to this 9/1980 photo from George Elwood's fallen flags site. http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/slsf/slsf-monsta-awp.jpg Note the train order signal near the left edge of the image and the safety slogan coonskin herald between the doors on the north wall of the depot. Parked adjacent to the west wall is a yellow Ford truck in maintenance off way (MOW) service. It features red coon skin logos on the cab doors. Protruding above the cab, extending from the right side rear is the boom of an Auto Crane. Auto Crane, headquartered in Tulsa, Ok, was a favored manufacturer of vehicle mounted service cranes. View looking south southeast. Edit 1/13/2024: Added location address, mile post, subdivisions and additional images narrative. MKD
Yard Office, Wichita Yard, Wichita, KS, MP 507.8 - Wichita and Burrton Subdivisions Yard Office, Wichita Yard. 1026 East 29th Street North, Wichita, KS 67219. Photographs undated. BNSF still used/uses a portion of it. Edit 1/13/2024: Added location address, mile post, subdivisions and additional images narrative. MKD
Yard Office, Rosedale Yard, Rosedale, KS, MP 3.9 - Kansas City Subdivision Yard Office, Rosedale Yard. 1226 Southwest Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66103. Photograph dated 3/94. After the merger with that successor railroad it was used as offices for a brief time by the Railroad Police Department. Later it was subsequently rebuilt into a private business, but that did not last. The building was demolished in 2005. This was done just before extensive flood control work began to widen and deepen the adjacent Turkey Creek. Note on the the south wall the main entrance flanked by the vertical concrete "n" shaped portico. On the west and east ends are additional entrances to the first floor central hallway. Building was of similar design and vintage to the yard offices at Springfield, MO and Amory, MS. The Springfield office remains in use by that successor, successors railroad. The Amory office was sold to the city and is used as municipal offices. Turkey Creek runs along along the tree line below the bluff on the north side at the building's rear. In the lower photograph, in the distance at the horizon line is Mission Road overpass. The bridge spans from the north Turkey Creek, the railroad and Southwest Boulevard. The bridge extends the north south roadway to an entrance and exit at highway mile post 233 with Interstate 35 (I-35). Photographs taken from adjacent parking areas. Views looking north northeast (top) and west northwest (bottom). Edit 1/13/2024: Added location address, mile post, subdivision and additional images narrative. MKD
Yard Office, Springfield Yard, MP 239.7 - Lebanon and Springfield Subdivisions - MP 200.6. - Ash Grove and Willow Springs Subdivisions Yard Office, Springfield Yard. 1625 North Lexington Avenue, Springfield, MO 65802. Photograph dated 12/20/1985. Photograph taken from parking lot. View looking northeast.
Yard Office and Tower, Springfield Yard, MP 239.7 - Lebanon and Springfield Subdivisions - MP 200.6. - Ash Grove and Willow Springs Subdivisions Springfield Yard Office and Tower. 1625 North Lexington Avenue, Springfield, MO 65802. Photograph taken July 9, 2006. Photograph by Rich Lawler. Image taken from Kansas Avenue / Missouri Highway 13 overpass over the east end of the yard. The locomotive service tracks and turntable are just to the east of the overpass. The rooftop tower extension was added in the mid 1970s. It replaced a stand alone bowl tower further east that was also located on the south side of the yard. The former tower was located just north of and near 2415 West Division Street. This is located between North Forest Avenue and North West Avenue. The tower was supported on H girder legs with a largely open bottom It was approximately 4 stories tall. The tower closely resembled very similar towers that stood adjacent to the southwest side of Arsenal Street, on the north side of Lindenwood Yard, St. Louis, MO and near the center of East Thomas Yard at Birmingham, AL. The tracks closest to the yard office an the south long receiving and departure tracks. Numbered from the south, closest to the building are long tracks 4, 3, 2 and 1. The south and north long tracks are numbered from the yard bowl increasing outward. The 2 tracks in the lower image are yard leads. View looking west southwest. Edit 1/13/2024: Added location address, mile post, subdivision and additional images narrative. MKD
A little update on the Northern Division office at the Rosedale Yard. It was torn down a couple of years ago when Turkey Creek was improved to control flooding. Now it is just an empty lot. The BNSF is also replacing the bridges over the double main near where the Division Office was located. The Garvey elevator just east of the Division Office was torn down last year. Hard to tell there was ever a yard there. Ship IT on the Frisco! Rick
They use to have the tower on the South side of the yard by a drive in all by itself on steel girders in Springfield, MO. Wish I had a picture of that one.
