Talk:Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad

Trains Portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Trains, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to rail transport on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. See also: WikiProject Trains to do list and the Trains Portal.TrainsWikipedia:WikiProject TrainsTemplate:WikiProject Trainsrail transport articles

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Missouri Mid‑importance

	Missouri portal This article is part of WikiProject Missouri, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Missouri. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.MissouriWikipedia:WikiProject MissouriTemplate:WikiProject MissouriMissouri articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

The Hannibal and St. Joe never ran through Gallatin, Mo., it ran through Hamilton, about 11 miles south. Hamilton is best known as the birthplace of one J.C. Penney.

Gallatin, however, was on both the Rock Island (CHI-KCY) and the Wabash (Brunswick-Council Bluffs).

More

I never understand why Wiki talk pages aren't utilized & read more. In any event:

Excellent start, I think. But much more work needed. E.g.:

1. We're told the year of the subsidiary event of when the first Pony Express letter was carried, but when did service on the Hannibal & St. Jo itself open end-to-end?

2. The 1860 map is excellent. But give us a later map too, showing the Cameron–K.C. line; the K.C., St. Joseph & Council Bluffs; etc. And am I wrong that that little segment from Palmyra to Quincy, all-important to the Burlington, was added only after the circuitous segment from Hannibal to Palmyra was built?

3. In section "Post offices on wheels," 2nd para., 1st sentence:

a. Don't start a paragraph by saying 'the railroad'. Which railroad?

b. As I once saw Darth Vader on TV, on stage with Wolfman Jack who was trying to introduce Alice Cooper, dangling the Wolfman by his throat off the ground, asking, "What is an Alice Cooper?": I'm a layman. What is a 'cutoff'?

4. The men who pushed the K.C.–Cameron line are identified, but not the Boston financiers behind the article's lead subject, the Hannibal & St. Joseph. I mean, at least tell us a bit about James F. Joy.

Etc.

Jimlue (talk) 00:11, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]