Does anyone have any pictures that would show a typical WW I era
CB&Q branch line station. My interest is in the old St. Francis branch
that ran across the NW corner of Decatur county Kansas. The line still
exists but is now part of the Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado short line. It
runs through what little is left of the community of Cedar Bluffs,
Kansas.
What
would the grain elevators, stock handeling facilities, freight and passenger
facilities (depot) look like.
I
have read a lot about the community of Cedar Bluffs, Kansas (now largely
gone), at it's biggest it's population was under 700. Like so many rural
communities the advent of cars and trucks took away their reason for
existing. With horse and wagon a round trip with shopping to Oberlin, Kansas
or McCook, Nebraska would take all day. Even the cars and trucks of 1920
made a trip only a half day event. Now with ! better roads and modern
vehicles it is only a matter of a couple of hours to make the same trip. Sic
transit gloria!!
All
that is left of the community in central Kansas (Thornburg, north of Smith
Center) where my Grandmother was born and grew up is a crossroads and the
Church with the local cemetary a mile to the west. My great grandfathers
homestead was a mile east of the church. His decendants still farm
there.
Kirby
