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Annada grain elevator176 viewsThese shiny silos are a much later addition to the tiny village. There was a station here but it no longer exists.
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F3s haul freight out of St. Louis174 viewsA CB&Q F3 set pulls freight from the North St. Louis yards.
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Blackbirds all around174 viewsQuite a few Blackbirds adorn the N. St. Louis yard for the CB&Q.
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Hannibal Yards in 1911173 viewsIn what appears to be a watercolor of the Hannibal yards in 1911, this may have been from a black-and-white photo and then colorized. While the detail of the original photo would be nice, this does give a good idea of what the yard was like and the coal loading ramp at center.
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Southbound freight crosses Grassy Creek on the way to Louisiana172 viewsSD70ACe & AC4400CW rush to St. Louis powerplants with a load of coal.
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New signals for BNSF, flood tower172 viewsThese new signals were set in 2012, now a new siding has also gone in just south of Clarksville.
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CB&Q bridge just south of Annada, MO171 viewsAnother ancient steel bridge that served the CB&Q.
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Threshing Rice in Elsberry165 viewsA Kerschgesner threshes rice in Elsberry, MO, using an Advance-Rumely Oil Pull 15-25 tractor and a Red River Special threshing machine.
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CB&Q switcher in Hannibal163 viewsA Q switcher steams in the Hannibal, MO yard
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Looking South towards Annada, MO161 viewsK-line looking south. According to Clarence Cannon's history of Elsberry, when the Clarksville & Western Railway began setting out trackage south, a marker was driven in the ground every 3 miles and that was where a station was built, and then a town usually grew up around the station. Some survived, some did not, some barely hang by a thread.
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Elsberry Depot in 1988161 viewsElsberry depot with Galloway Brothers feed mill in the background, looking south. You can see that the freight shed has already been removed.
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161 viewsRiver boats and railroads go way back in Hannibal's history. The President (originally built as the Cincinnatti in 1924) pulls up to the dock in Hannibal in the 1930s. She called St. Louis her home from 1934 to 1941, and frequently made trips to Hannibal during that time. Currently the ship sits dismantled in a field in Effingham, Ill.
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BNSF 4423 rounds the bend near Clarksville160 viewsC44-9W takes the mainline south into Clarksville.
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MKT switcher in North St Louis160 viewsMKT NW2 in the BN yards in North St. Louis
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Rice threshing in Old Monroe159 viewsGeo Merriweather threshes rice in Old Monroe using a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and a Red River Special thresher.
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