Joe began purchasing power generated at Bagnell Dam in Lake of the Ozarks in 1929. Joseph Lead Company’s Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway. It was also in 1929 that the Missouri Pacific acquired St. In 1929 the Missouri-Illinois was acquired by the Missouri Pacific Railroad and operated as a subsidiary company from that point.
At this time the company purchased the final ferry to operate at Ste. In 1921 the Missouri-Illinois railroad was formed and purchased the right of way and equipment of the Illinois Southern. The ferry added in 1916 was the Kellogg and operated until 1920. While the Illinois Southern railroad had already added a second ferry in 1916, this left a large dent in their financial stability. Genevieve struck a submerged piling and sank, it was later scrapped. In 1904 their second ferry came into use, the Ste. The Illinois Southern operated its first ferry boat, the Nick Saur between 19.
The ISRR also tapped into the rapidly developing lime mining in Ste. Francois County by the Illinois Southern. At one point as many as 70 to 80 coal cars a week were delivered to St. Since the Illinois Southern passed through the Southern Illinois coal fields, they were able to take care of the need. Francois County required a lot of coal to operate steam equipment in the early years. Joseph Lead Company’s operation their own railroad, but it did find other ways to make money. While the Illinois Southern never quite succeeded in tapping into the lead haulage due to the St. This is the current location of the Modoc vehicle ferry. The Illinois Southern in Missouri was built from a location called Thomure just north of Ste. Once the Missouri side of the railroad was built it was all considered the Illinois Southern railroad. In this setup railcars would be loaded onto a ferry barge and moved across the river.Ĭonstruction of the Missouri side was done under the name “Southern Missouri” railroad, though this name was just used for construction. Building a tall enough bridge for riverboats to pass under would require large amounts of fill material or a trestle material to build an incline tall enough to cross safely- and space on the Missouri side was limited owing to the steep bluffs.īy 1902 a railroad ferryboat was chosen as the best option. Building to either crossing would require many extra miles of track and the right of way to do so.Īnother issue hindering the construction of a bridge over the river was topography. Louis to the north, it was not effective to utilize those crossings. Seeing as the nearest railroads crossing the Mississippi River were at Thebes (near Cape Girardeau, Mo) to the south and St. Genevieve, Missouri.Īt this point in time the Illinois Southern had set their eyes on the Lead Belt area of Southeast Missouri. Kellogg is on the Mississippi River directly across from Ste. The ISRR itself was formed with the purchase of two previous railroads.īy 1902 the Illinois Southern had extended their rail line through Evansville, Illinois on to a point called Kellogg. The Illinois Southern railroad came into being in 1900 to haul coal and other goods in the Salem, Centralia, and Sparta areas in Southern Illinois. Genevieve, it is important to give some background on the railroad and this location.
While the main focus of this post is at Ste. Jake Jones, Tour Guide/Interpreter at Missouri Department of Natural Resources, posted some background on the railroad and the Ste.
The tracks have been getting its fair share of social media.
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