Railroad
Stations
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Six
St. Albans, Missouri has re-invented itself into a
country club community with big, fancy homes and of course a golf course. The
town actually was a small riverfront community serviced by the Rock Island RR.
The town re-purposed the Rock Island station a bunch of offices and the town’s
Post Office.
Downriver, we head to St. Charles, Missouri. St.
Charles was the home of Missouri’s First State Capitol. The town had both the
Wabash and the Katy stop in their town.
The City of St. Louis, Missouri had several railroad
stations. The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis created Union Station along
Market Street in downtown, but, a great deal commuters and travelers use the
Wabash Station in West St. Louis for the train trips. The station is not
currently in use, but, city’s Light Rail trains still use the tracks below.
Back out to Idaho we
go, we pay a visit to Wallace, ID. This Former Northern Pacific station once
stood on the north side of the river, but, was moved when the railroad tracks
where removed in order for Interstate 90 to be built.
The Wabash also stopped in Warrenton, Missouri, but the
town’s station has been reduced to a work shed.
