I think what you're seeing are remnants of a steam short-line, the St. Louis
& Hannibal which ran from Hannibal to Perry. An interurban called the
Mexico Santa Fe and Perry built from Mexico to Molino in 1908 in an attempt
to connect the town of Mexico with the St. Louis & Hannibal at Perry. In
1915 the interurban's name was changed to the Mexico Investment and
Construction Company and it was extended from Molino to Santa Fe. It was
abandoned in 1917 and torn up in 1918. I don't when the St. Louis &
Hannibal was abandoned.
See George W. Hilton & John F. Due's The Electric Interurban Railways in
America.
Norm Metcalf, Boulder CO
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From: "William Barber" <clipperw@E...>
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Subject: [BRHSlist] Interurbans in Q Territory
> I frequently travel MO route 19 southwest of Hannibal. As the road
> travels southwest, there is evidence of a RR line along the north side
> including a depot at Center, MO, and a bridge abutment a little further
> west. Most of the RofW is obliterated so the line has been gone for
> many years. I suspect that it was an interurban line running west from
> Hannibal to ?. Does anybody know the name of the RR, where it went,
> when was it abandon and if a website exists concerning its history?
>
> Bill Barber
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