Looking toward Campbell in 1941

Assuming there was no viaduct in 1941.

No highway 53, hence no viaduct.

Where was this taken from Dale?

If that is a water tower to the left, I doubt this is Campbell. The Campbell water tower was much closer to the railroad tracks. Further, the land to the right of the Campbell railroad tracks does not rise as rapidly as is shown in this photo.

There is a spot on the picture , looks like a water tank in the air. as you can see it is only a spot on the picture. It is not where the old tank was before they got rid of it. The picture is from 1941 and reads looking west from the viaduct to Campbell, Mo date is 5/18 1941 and name on the picture is from a Mr Fretz who wrote the messqge on the picture, signed the picture . The Pol Mack Hotel card came from the same picture source with the hand writing the same. That is all I have on this picture. Believe it or not ??

I will accept the "water tower" as being a spot on the photo.

The photo seems to have been taken from a vantage point somewhat higher than ground level -- the viaduct would do.

That raises a question. When was the overpass for the RR built?

MemoryCard wrote:

I will accept the "water tower" as being a spot on the photo.
The photo seems to have been taken from a vantage point somewhat higher than ground level -- the viaduct would do.

Don't appear to be high enough to be from the viaduct.

dont think wrote:

<quoted text>Don't appear to be high enough to be from the viaduct.

Okay. Somebody was probably standing on top of a locomotive as the train came into Campbell.

MemoryCard wrote:

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Okay. Somebody was probably standing on top of a locomotive as the train came into Campbell.

not blurry enough.lol

Krusty Edges wrote:

No highway 53, hence no viaduct.

The Hwy 53 went down by the Gin and came out by Ray Smith house years ago. The road on the other side of the New church going to Kennett Mo. There was a RailRoad running to Holcomb just to the west of this road. You had to cross it by Odgins farm .

MemoryCard wrote:

If that is a water tower to the left, I doubt this is Campbell. The Campbell water tower was much closer to the railroad tracks. Further, the land to the right of the Campbell railroad tracks does not rise as rapidly as is shown in this photo.

You need to drive by there and look again. The ground is just as high today as it was in 1941. The tree line has moved back toward the tracks. But the picture is the same and who are you to make judgement when you don't know jack shit .

I do too! Isn't he one of your wife's cousins?

Now tell us about the water tower, which Dale has confirmed is a spot on the picture.

MemoryCard wrote:

If that is a water tower to the left, I doubt this is Campbell. The Campbell water tower was much closer to the railroad tracks. Further, the land to the right of the Campbell railroad tracks does not rise as rapidly as is shown in this photo.

Go down by the tracks and take a picture and if the tracks are lower than the land then you are right . But to me unless you can prove what you writing then you are WRONG, WRONG WRONG You know so much prove it !!!!!!!!!!

Railroad man wrote:

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Go down by the tracks and take a picture and if the tracks are lower than the land then you are right . But to me unless you can prove what you writing then you are WRONG, WRONG WRONG You know so much prove it !!!!!!!!!!

It is not necessary to "go down by the tracks," or to "take a picture." One only needs common sense to know that the tracks SIT ON the land -- they do not sit below the level of the land, inside a trench.

I have taken, and looked at, far more photos than you will ever hope to do. For years, I have studied photos as a part of my work. If there were a walkway across the viaduct, I would risk my life to "take a photo." Since there is no such walkway, I am not willing to risk life and limb to prove to some skeptic that the view from the viaduct is different from the view on the photograph, however many times someone says "it is identical."

One merely has to drive over the viaduct, look south, and see the prominence of the new water tower, where the old one stood. There is NO SUCH water tower shown in the posted photograph. Dale has stated that the apparent "water tower" is merely a spot on the original picture.

No: It isn't Campbell!! I rode this track from St. Louis to Campbell, then, Campbell to Jonesboro. Looking north, which this would be - There would be a highway to the left...62?? Going toward St Francis...

There WAS a viaduct in 1941.

In this photo, one would have to be looking North to see the water tower from the left side.

There would be a highway(62?) to the left and very close to the RR.

In 1942, I rode on this RR from St.Louis to Campbell and back and rode once from Campbell to Jonesboro.

No: It isn't Campbell

Ol Goat wrote:

No: It isn't Campbell!! I rode this track from St. Louis to Campbell, then, Campbell to Jonesboro. Looking north, which this would be - There would be a highway to the left...62?? Going toward St Francis...

MY BAD!! From the other side of Campbell,north, The water tower indeed would have appeared to the left with no HWY beside the tracks...What did I do here?? Have a senior moment??:)The viaduct was there in 1941 though if this observation is of any value.:):)

Ol Goat wrote:

There WAS a viaduct in 1941.
In this photo, one would have to be looking North to see the water tower from the left side.
There would be a highway(62?) to the left and very close to the RR.
In 1942, I rode on this RR from St.Louis to Campbell and back and rode once from Campbell to Jonesboro.
No: It isn't Campbell

MY BAD here too. Bottom line??? I don't know whether it is Campbell or not!!:)

That is Campbell in the picture because the man who took the picture wrote on the back of the picture and said it was Campbell Missouri.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/Rlewi...

Look at this picture the guy wrote on the back so I oput it on the front with the picture at the bottom . Mr Fretz 5/18/1941