Leo,
It very well could be. I've attached the 1909 Sanborn maps for the area
and the track work in the photo appears to match those on panel 48.
In the early-mid 1960s, the Q built a brand new freight house in North
Kansas City closer to Murray Yard. There is a picture of it in one of
the Bulletins on Burlington Bulletin CD.
Bill Hirt
On 6/22/2020 7:56 PM, Leo Phillipp via groups.io wrote:
Was the freight house in the flood picture the Q house ? Did the Q
have any others in KC ?
Leo
On Jun 22, 2020, at 6:57 PM, William Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com> wrote:
Just as point of reference, the west bottoms area of Kansas City
(which is where this photo was taken) has not flooded again since the
great 1951 flood. After that flood, a 50 foot concrete flood wall was
built. Even in 1993 which caused anxiety in Kansas City about
flooding, the water level never reached closer than 10 feet below the
top of the flood wall.
The 1951 flood however decimated the stockyards and meat packers in
the area. The area never totally recovered as the livestock to market
pattern changed and Omaha became the biggest packing town.
This Esther Bubley photo from 1948 (part of the Newberry Library CB&Q
collection) shows the west bottoms as it's height prior to the 1951
flood. The elevated track is the old Kansas City Public Service line
that entered a tunnel beneath the photographer to get to downtown
Kansas City.
Bill Hirt
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