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The Railroads of Henry County, Missouri

What's New: New and Updated pages
(Updated)Timeline of Railroads in Henry County
Clinton's Railroad Stations Includes picture of former Frisco station just before demolition.
Clinton's Interlocking Towers
Clinton's Locomotive Facilities
Clinton's Watchman's Shanties
Maps of trackage
- All time trackage maps (made using MS Paint):
  - City of Clinton - South
    All time trackage map, made using MS_Paint
- Maps from 1895 Plat Book of Henry County:
- Linda Everhart's Henry County USGenWeb site has scanned in nearly all the 1895 Platbook.
- Maps from State of Missouri, an Autobiography (1904):
- Other Maps:
  - Annoted Valuation Map of KCC&S and KCOS betweeen Clinton and Vista
  - KCC&S Map and Timetable, from 1916 Official Guide of the Railways
  - Scans and Notes from MKT Clinton 1918 Valuation Map S19b
  - Notes from MKT Clinton Valuation Maps of 1918 and 1970s
- Sanborn Fire Maps for Missouri
  Very detailed maps of Calhoun, Clinton, Deepwater, Montrose and Windsor (and numerous other cities in Missouri) for various dates from 1883 to 1923. Shows, among other things, the stations, flour mills, pottery plants, and the Blair line roundhouse at Clinton.
  Go to "Search This Collection" and search for the city name in Title.
Scanned items from Clinton A Picturesque City, a booklet published in 1898 about the city of Clinton
Articles from Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, published in 1901.
- General List of Articles
- List of Railroad Related Articles
- Article on Railroads.
Histories of:
- The Missouri Kansas & Texas Railroad:
- The Frisco:
  - Corporate History (from the I.C.C. Valuation Report)
  - Development of Fixed Physical Property Property (from the I.C.C. Valuation Report)
  - The Blair Line (Kansas City Osceola & Southern Railroad):
    - Notes from the I.C.C. Valuation Report
  - The Leaky Roof (Kansas City Clinton & Springfield):
    - The "Leaky Roof" (Kansas City Clinton & Springfield Railroad), a Short History
    - Kansas City Clinton & Springfield Average Operating Statistics 1888-1924
  - The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railway (parent of KCC&S)
    - Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railweay, a Brief History
    - Map from 1885 timetable
    - Corporate History of the Kansas City Fort Scott & Memphis, including the KCC&S (from the I.C.C. Valuation Report).
- The Rock Island's St. Louis Line:
  - Corporate History of the Kansas City, Rock Island Railway, (from the I.C.C. Valuation Report)
  - History of the Rock Islands St. Louis Sub, from Michael Landis' Missouri Central website.
- The Clinton Street Railway:
  - Short History of the Clinton Street Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
- Finance Docket No. 4198 - Aquisition of Control of Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield Railway 1924 Acquisition of control of KCC&S by Frisco.
- Finance Docket No. 6598 - Abandonment of Operation by St. Louis-San Francisco Railway 1928 abandonment of ex-KCC&S line from Stanley to Belton, Kans.
- Finance Docket No. 10234 - Frisco Abandonment 1934 abandonment of ex-KCC&S line from Stanley, Kansas to Clinton, Missouri and from Tracy Junction, Missouri to Phenix, Missouri
- Finance Docket No. 10472 - Frisco Abandonment 1934 abandonment of the Brownington - Lowry City Junction line.
Timetables:
- Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Public Timetables
  - July, 1916 - Scanned from Official Guide
- Missouri Kansas Texas Public Timetables
  - 1871 - Scanned from Official Guide
  - July, 1885 - Scanned from Official Guide
  - July, 1893 - Scanned from Official Guide
  - July, 1916 - Scanned from Official Guide
  - - Scanned from Official Guide
- Blair Line Public Timetables:
  The first few were transcribed from the Official Guide of the Railways with a little editing to take care of characters not in the ISO-1 set, not to mention connection lists printed sideways in the original to fit the space available. Others were scanned from the Official Guide or from Frisco timetables.
  - December, 1883
  - December, 1884
  - July, 1885
  - September, 1885 and scanned version
  - April, 1891
  - July, 1896 - Scanned
  - May, 1909 - Scanned from Frisco Timetable
  - November, 1911 - Scanned from Official Guide
  - June, 1916 - Scanned from Official Guide
  - December, 1922 - Scanned from Frisco Timetable
  - September, 1933 - Scanned from Frisco Timetable
  - Newspaper report on the Blair Line Excursion, May 6, 1883
    This was the first passenger run on the Kansas City & Southern, then building south from Clinton. Note: due to an error in reading my notes the date of this excursion was originally posted as May 20.
- Clinton Line ("Leaky Rooof") Public Timetables:
  These are transcribed from the Official Guide of the Railways with a little editing to take care of characters not in the ISO-1 set, not to mention connection lists (and whole timetables!) printed sideways in the original to fit the space available.
  - July, 1885 and Scanned
  - December, 1885
  - July, 1886 - Scanned from Official Guide
  - December, 1890, scanned.
  - December, 1899
  - May, 1909 - Scanned from Frisco Timetable
  - June 1916, from June 1916 Official Guide of the Railways, with Map.
  - December, 1922 - Scanned from Frisco Timetable
  - September, 1933 - Scanned from Frisco Timetable
- Employee Timetables
  - Extracts from Frisco Employee Timetable 39B of October 3, 1954, showing the Clinton Subdivision.
- Timetables from Newspapers
Inspection Reports from the 1912 Annual Report of the Missouri State Railroad and Warehouse Commission.
- Frisco Line: Kansas City, through Clinton, to Springfield
- Kansas City Clinton & Springfield Railroad
Mileages Between Stations from the 1912 Annual Report of the Missouri State Railroad and Warehouse Commission.
- Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway
- Kansas City Clinton & Springfield Railway
- Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway
- St. Louis & Francisco Railway
Notes from County Histories:
- Railroads in Bates County (from the 1883 History of Cass and Bates County)
  Has considerable details about the various railroads projected but not built in the railroad building booms of 1869-1873 and 1878-1883. Many of the projects would have involved Henry County as well.
Notes from Clinton Newspapers:
- 1881
- 1883 First Half
- 1883 Second Half
- 1884
- 1888
- 1889
- 1915
Forms and other copied items:
- MKT Form 229, the "Nothing to Report" Report.
Sources used in compiling these pages
Some general Railroad information:
- Some Notes on Railroad Construction Costs
- FRA Track and Signal Speed Regulations
And some links to other sites with information about Henry County Railroads:
- Jack Forbes' Missouri Depots
- Katy Railroad Historical Society
- Michael Landis' The "M" In the MKT: Missouri Operations 1870-1988
- The Katy Railroad at Railroads in Kansas
- Springfield-Greene County Library's Frisco Digital Collection pages
- Frisco.org
- FMIG (Frisco Modelers Information Group
- Marty Meyer's Hyline page (the Blair Line)
- Marty Meyer's Kansas City Clinton & Springfield page (the Leaky Roof Line)
- Rock Island Technical Society
- Michael Landis' Unofficial Missouri Central Railway pages
And more coming....

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The Railroads of Henry County, Missouri

The Truman Area Community Network
A Community Information Source
supported by the Henry County Library