zimzip
June 15th, 2000, 08:28 PM
This is my first visit onboard and have been enjoying many of the posts, especially those that reminisce, such as the "Remembering Frisco" thread.
I am particularly interested in St. Louis.
My granddad was a telegrapher at the following stations/offices:
Chouteau and Windsor Springs, in St. Louis; and Globe on the Monett/Verona border, MO. Windsor Springs was in Kirkwood, near Geyer and Big Ben. My dad explained that was where the tracks use to switch, from single to double. My dad grew up around trains and has loved trains since he was a boy living in Shrewsbury Park. Just like one of the earlier posts, his backyard was adjacent to the tracks and the trains would roar by like thunder, one time demonlishing his sisters school books which he had mischievously placed there, on purpose of course. I am told he got quite a whipping!
I believe that the Chouteau station was still in existence in the 1950s, although Windsor Springs and Globe have both long since vanished. Globe closed in the 1940s when my granddad retired.
Any board members have information about any of these stations/offices, and/or St.Louis Frisco Line in general?
William H. Keehne, telegrapher
(1879-1966)
There is a photo of my granddad
in I believe the Chouteau station
office in the early 1900s
on my family web site: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~zimzip/
Thanks,
Karen
I am particularly interested in St. Louis.
My granddad was a telegrapher at the following stations/offices:
Chouteau and Windsor Springs, in St. Louis; and Globe on the Monett/Verona border, MO. Windsor Springs was in Kirkwood, near Geyer and Big Ben. My dad explained that was where the tracks use to switch, from single to double. My dad grew up around trains and has loved trains since he was a boy living in Shrewsbury Park. Just like one of the earlier posts, his backyard was adjacent to the tracks and the trains would roar by like thunder, one time demonlishing his sisters school books which he had mischievously placed there, on purpose of course. I am told he got quite a whipping!
I believe that the Chouteau station was still in existence in the 1950s, although Windsor Springs and Globe have both long since vanished. Globe closed in the 1940s when my granddad retired.
Any board members have information about any of these stations/offices, and/or St.Louis Frisco Line in general?
William H. Keehne, telegrapher
(1879-1966)
There is a photo of my granddad
in I believe the Chouteau station
office in the early 1900s
on my family web site: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~zimzip/
Thanks,
Karen