Talk:Bird's Point, Missouri

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This will need a write up on the Birds Point levee controversy and the Army Corps of Engineers Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.

Railroad History[edit]

Birds Point research is ongoing and will hopefully be published some day. Missouri Pacific Railroad Birds Point information is from a Rand McNally World Atlas Missouri map on page 45, copyright 1944. Missouri Pacific Birds Point abandonment data is from the Missouri Pacific Yahoo Group. Cotton Belt abandonment data is from St. Louis Southwestern Railway Line Abandonment and Sales prepared by David M. Bernstein for the 2nd Cotton Belt Symposium April 16, 2007. Cotton Belt pipeline data is from Fred Frailey's book Blue Streak Merchandise page 22. Tank farm data is from Google Maps and a 1956 topographic map of the Birds Point area. --SSW9389 15:59, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Oil Station History[edit]

The known establishment of the oil station and tank farm has been traced back to mid 1941. That is the time when Cotton Belt established a train yard in Wyatt, MO. The shipment of oil through a pipeline to this oil station and then loading onto barges is still being researched, but what is known is that it was an ongoing thing by late 1941. An aerial photograph of East Prairie during the 1952 flood shows multiple tank cars in the siding at that location indicating oil was still being shipped to the oil station by rail. Interviews with retired railroaders is indicating that the oil station became a delivery point from barges and that oil products were delivered by truck from the oil station to local customers. The oil station was partially destroyed by an explosion on the night of Tuesday October 22, 1974. One man was killed and another badly burned. See the Sikeston Daily Standard for October 23, 1974 for additional details and photos. The oil station was abandoned, the metal salvaged and the site levelled after a period of several years. The site is now completely overgrown with trees.SSW9389 (talk) 12:49, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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