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| This 2006 photo of the Lackland Missouri Central RR Depot was contributed by James Wilson. Thanks James. The following comments are his. The new Lackland depot (also the yard office and corporate headquarters) belongs to the Central Midland/Missouri Central railroad. When the RI went bankrupt the line from St. Louis to Kansas City came into possession of the SLSW (Cotton Belt). After the Union Pacific absorbed the Southern Pacific (of which SLSW was a subsidiary), the UP was required to sell this stretch of decaying track, and it was bought by the Missouri Central Railroad, a subsidiary of Ameren (Union Electric). (It provides them an alternate source of coal supply for the Labadie power plant, although it isn't much used for that purpose.) Ameren then contracted with the Indiana Railroad to operate as much of the line as was thought feasible; IRR set up the Central Midland as the operating company. It operates regularly to Union MO, and sometimes as far as Gerald. Strictly speaking, UP owns the track as far west as Vigus station, some 15 or so miles northwest of Lackland. But the Lackland yard, part of which is visible on the right side of the photo, is the operating center for the CMRR. The CMRR tore down the decayed Rock Island station and put up this steel structure in its place. |
Photograph by James Wilson.
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