Cotton Belt Freight Office

[redox]

Has anyone been in here? I scouted this place out earlier today while looking around the Arch for the first time. Looked really humongous and easy to get into. I didn't want to go inside alone though. I noticed there was a white Camaro or Firebird parked in a discrete spot. Probably some fellow urban exploreres.

[memory_machine]

That's a pretty cool building. You can see my blog entry about it here:

http://undergroundozarks.com/blog/index ... ight_depot

I recently went back and took photos of the upper levels. I'll post that sooner or later.

[ropingk]

where is it located you said the arch so i would guess off warf street??? hey is the Big Ole Electric Company still down there???

[Urban Shadow]

I have been in there several times all thats inside is a shit load of books all over the ground and a bunch of old fileing cabnets, last time i was inside a bum ran at me stopped for a second about two feet from me grunted and ran around me. it scared the shit out of me.

[Urban Shadow]

Ohh by the way its an old train depot.

[Chris]

We found this individuals lair, luckily he wasn't home at the time.


Oh, by the way, nice "credibility props"!

[Willard]

For the purpose of preservation, what kind of books were these and among the litter were there papers pertaining to the railroad ie. invoices or just general random paperwork? Often times when something like that is abandoned a lot of the paperwork just gets left or the "less important" paperwork gets left I should say. If this is the case and possibly the books and what not have something to do with record keeping, I'd like to organize a team to go out there and collect that shit and go through it and what was of the railroad give it to the museum of transport or find out where the historic society for the Cotton Belt is and give the paperwork to them.

Just a though.

[memory_machine]

Interestingly enough, everything in this building is stuff completely unrelated to it. There are magazines and tires and toys and clothes, all that seem to have been brought there by Goodwill or someone. I never found anything relating to the actual railroad.

[Urban Shadow]

all the books are random there are books about air planes, geology, music, and even dickens. there is alot of old furniture and old crates too.

[Willard]

How very strange...

[tunajive]

I'm pretty sure there is marijuana growing behind the place as well, but I didn't want to upset the caretaker so I didn't take a closer look.


-Matt

[DonWong]

My bud and I each carry around a telescoping baton to scare off ill-intentioned bums, crackheads, or packs of wild dogs. You can also disguise them as flashlights so you don't look threatening.