Bill,
The BN railroad guys I know just call it 10th Street. The BN Intermodal
yard was there prior to being closed at the BNSF merger when everything
was moved to the Santa Fe side at Argentine. For through trains that
came from UP/SP to BN to go up to Brookfield, a retired UP engineer has
told me 10th Street was where they made the crew change or where a pilot
dropped on/off. In the 1980s, one rail I know worked the Bedford
industrial job which switched all of the industries in the industrial
park east of the Interstate which was developed by the Q. They would
sometimes use these tracks to help organize their train. Even in the
1980s, he said it was not unusual to pull 70-90 cars out of the
industrial park on a regular basis. The last I knew, that is the only
industrial switch job BNSF has left at Murray. When they removed the
hump after the BNSF merger, Murray became a true prototype version of a
model railroad staging yard.
As part of the aerial photo series, there are shots of Murray Yard prior
to reconfiguration after the Frisco merger. The roundhouse was still in
place. Here is that section.
Bill Hirt
On 6/24/2020 7:14 PM, William Barber wrote:
Bill,
Did the Q have a name for the small yard between the grain elevator
and the freight depot? Murray Yard is slightly less than a mile west
of the freight house location running north and south adjacent to
Broadway Ext, Wheeler Airport and the Missouri River.
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
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