Category Archives: railroad
Earliest Recollections
Childhood memories of the steam engine and coal mining era in central Missouri Continue reading
Posted in Historiography, Personal Blogs, railroad
Tagged Bevier & Southern, Braymer, CBQ RR, Hannibal, Kahoka, L.B. Price Merchantile, Meadville, Perry MO, revival, St. Joseph, W.T. Vaughn
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Hannibal Railfanning
Wabash Railroad Trains were colorful when I was growing up in the late forties and early fifties. Passenger train themes, locomotive paint schemes, freight car slogans, and cabooses that were rolling billboards, left over from the “glamour era” of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Hannibal, St Louis & Hannibal RR, Wabash
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Bevier & Southern Railroad
One of my earliest personal memories is a visit to my grandparents’ house in Bevier, Missouri. My grandfather, William Thomas Vaughn, was pastor of the Baptist Church there. My family had traveled by a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad steam … Continue reading
Posted in Hannibal, Historiography, Personal Blogs, railroad
Tagged Beulah, Beveir MO, Bevier & Southern, CBQ RR, Hannibal, HSJRR
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Larry E Vaughn 