Thanks Bill.
Leo
> On Jun 23, 2020, at 2:33 PM, William Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> <Kansas+City++1906-1917+vol.+1,+1906,+Sheet+39.pdf>
> <Kansas+City++1906-1917+vol.+1,+1906,+Sheet+48.pdf>
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