Nodaway County had four railroad lines at its peak. Three of the lines followed the three rivers in the county — 102 River (Burlington Railroad coming from south at St. Joseph and Savannah); Nodaway River (Burlington Railroad – coming from the main Kansas City-Burlington line at Amazonia up through Maitland and Burlington Jct); Platte River (Great Western & Chicago coming from St. Joseph/Savannah through Guilford, Ravenwood Parnell). The fourth railroad, Wabash, cuts diagonally northwest to southeast. It crosses the three other lines at Burlington Jct. (Nodaway Burlington), Maryville (which opted to keep the Wabash and 102 Burlington stations separate), and Conception Jct. with the Platte River Great Western. Below are map resources.
*Commissioners’ official railway map of Missouri (1894) – Full state map that is used in the opening image
Frank Galbraith’s railway mail service maps, Missouri (1897). One of eight large-scale pictorial maps of midwestern states showing routes and post offices of the Railway Mail Service. Designed by Chicago railway mail clerk Frank H. Galbraith to help employees of the Railway Mail Service quickly locate counties and post offices. The maps were rented for practicing or prospective workers who numbered over 6,000 and traveled over a million miles a year on the rails, sorting mail. A printed title cartouche, accompanied by a list of counties for each of the states by McEwen Map Company of Chicago, is pasted on the maps