Western Railroad Discussion > Rock Island fans, need a location please

This may be a repost.

Not much to go on in this picture. Hoping someone will recognize this bridge. Kansas City maybe??

Appreciate any info.

Yardclerk

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Don't have a clue as to the location but sure appreciate the Rock Island photos; thanks!

I never do any good on these but I will take a guess on this.
Looks like a levee behind the tracks some distance away. The bridge looks like what I think they call the "High Line" now. Was 2 tracks in the past but a derailment took out part of the bridge/viaduct and now only one track is used. This might be looking northeast at the west end of the old Rock yard around Kansas Avenue. The only problem is I would think you could see some of the downtown Kansas City skyline, but the angle may be not looking exactly in that direction, or maybe it is behind the locomotive. I think the yard was called/was in/or around Armstrong.
Strickly a guess.

I don't know either but I like this scheme better than
any other the Rock tried on, and they tried on a few!
As an aside, my grandpa was an Englishman and moved
to Baltimore during WW1, then stayed here after the War to
end all Wars. During WWII his son (my uncle) was stationed
somewhere in Oklahoma and he travelled out there by train to
visit one time. In the 50's he became a model RRer and I am sure
was the only modeller in Baltimore who modelled the Rock Island.
I remember visiting his home in Balt. and running Rock trains in
his basement. Some were painted like your geep pic, but with
English names - I remember a geep red & black with the name Choptank
across the long hood. He also had some Pennsy passenger cars that
were named for English war heros i.e. Pennsylvania lettering above the windows and Sir Winston Churchill lettered below.

Thanks, Yardclerk

This looks like it's taken on the southeast side of the UP yard at Kansas City, looking northwest in the morning. The bridge is the UP High Line that runs from Santa Fe Junction towards the Fairfax District, Atchison, and the Falls City Sub.

My guess is that this is a transfer from RI-Armourdale heading into the east end of UP-Armstrong.

MRL

u25b wrote:
>
> This looks like it's taken on the southeast side of the UP yard
> at Kansas City, looking northwest in the morning. The bridge
> is the UP High Line that runs from Santa Fe Junction towards
> the Fairfax District, Atchison, and the Falls City Sub.
>
> My guess is that this is a transfer from RI-Armourdale heading
> into the east end of UP-Armstrong.
>
> MRL

Pretty good guess, but the track angles aren't quite right. I may be mistaken though. Even went down to SF Jct today to look around, accounting for track that might be gone, and couldn't find a "right fit" for the scene. Steelwork supporting the high line looks different than seen in the picture, but might have been strengthened, looks pretty old like original to 1913-15 though.

Council Bluffs going under the UP fill? Twin Cities?

KC seems best bet, but just doesn't quite add up.

It could be a transfer run in the St. Louis area.

My first thought was Council Bluffs, just from the lay of the land. Just a guess.

CRI&P

Not the Twin Cities. No bridge like that in the area that I recall. Also, probably not the Council Bluffs area for the same reason.

Like the thought of Kansas City, KS, as opposed to the Santa Fe Junction area. That seems to be a fit, although I can't say for certain.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA