An NS train runs through Hannibal MO behind a single GE on a steamy day in July 1999. The train is on the former Wabash line and is about to turn west to Kansas City. The sole unit is roughly where the city's original Union Station stood. Now an earthen levee stands to protect the otherwise flood-prone town. The other tracks are for the BNSF; at one time the CB&Q had a its Hannibal Division shops in the large, green area at the bottom of the picture. The first bridge is the Mark Twain span for US36; it was replaced by the new structure being built behind it in 2000. The NS/NW/WAB lift bridge over the Mississippi is bairly seen as a silver tower in the background. Taken from Lovers' Leap, the hill south of Hannibal |